Democracy

When the results of the elections at all levels appeared on Sunday, October 4, just after 8 p.m. - just over an hour after almost 1.5 million people in Bosnia and Herzegovina had voted - it was clear that the elections were different from all the previous ones.

Technology can make some parts of the electoral process faster, more verifiable and more resilient to certain types of error and abuse. But technology alone does not produce electoral integrity.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's and Serbia's election outcomes could reshape political relations between two strongmen, Aleksandar Vučić and Milorad Dodik, with significant consequences for both countries' further path towards European integration. 

We can still only speculate about the full cruelty of Biljana Plavšić’s false admission of guilt. In her 2005 memoirs, she retracted her most significant admissions and reiterated and elaborated on the very views she had held before and during the war in BiH.

Voters first accept a framework of threat and fear, then choose within it the most credible protector. Those who reject the very framework face a much harder task. Hatred is what we see and map. Fear is what enables it to function politically.

Right-wing nationalist politics use Mladić’s grave to instill fear and intimidate victims, as if they were constantly back at the beginning of the struggle for the truth - a truth that has been factually proven by court verdicts.

The WB6 SG expresses its profound indignation with the Serbian government’s actions and statements related to the funeral of war criminal Ratko Mladić. 

Thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide,the questions regarding what happened and who did it have largely been resolved. What remains unclear is how the past will shape the future, our author argues.

Members of the group paid respect to the victims of the Srebrenica genocide and reaffirmed the importance of preserving their memory as an essential part of addressing the legacy of wars and building lasting peace in the Western Balkans.