Education system and its impact on the reconciliation process in BiH – Focus on recent reforms in Republika Srpska
Education system and its impact on the reconciliation process in BiH – Focus on recent reforms in Republika Srpska

Summary/Abstract: Recent controversial reforms of the education system in Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, aiming at introducing the same curricula as in Serbia both in elementary and grammar schools opened the floor to debate on the role of education in the post-conflict settings. This paper’s purpose is to examine different effects that education can have on the post-conflict societies in general and to present measures that shall be implemented in order to pursue the social reconstruction and reconciliation processes. The emphasis will be put on the dangers for education system in societies, which suffered from an ethnic conflict with an in-depth study of education system introduced in Bosnia and Herzegovina after 1995. It will be demonstrated that the reforms implemented in this field in Bosnia and Herzegovina continue hindering the reconciliation process of its society and that this situation is not ready to be changed in the coming years as the division and segregation has been maintained for over twenty years since the end of the civil war. In these circumstances the recent reforms appear only as a continuation of the existing education policies in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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