Reimagining Civil Resistance: From Balkan Streets to Legal Duty Everything around us is moving, shaking, disrupting, trying to move walls and break barriers. The Western Balkans are one of the most seismically active regions in Europe, where the collision of major tectonic plates constantly shakes the ground. Yet the tremors I am concerned with here … →
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the phrase „civic state“ rarely remains a neutral constitutional term for long. To some, it promises equal political status regardless of ethnic identity. To others, it conceals a majoritarian project that could weaken the safeguards of the constituent peoples. The disagreement is not merely about electoral engineering. It reflects a deeper … →
In a recent blog post, the High Representative (HR), whose authority derives from the Bonn Conference conclusions, Annex X of the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA), and relevant UN resolutions, was described as an instrument of external militant democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). While we do not fundamentally dispute this characterization, we argue that the … →
