13-17 June 2022, NUPI and Atlantic Initiative researchers met for field research in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We visited the cities of Sarajevo, Mostar and Trebinje, and talked to local stakeholders about the issues of radicalisation and violent extremism, as well as local factors of resilience, in the country. While in Mostar, we recorded a podcast on the challenges in Bosnia today.
The famous bridge in Mostar represents a symbolic background for the social fabric that has suffered from the war in the 1990s. In 1993, the bridge was destroyed in the civil war that raged in the former Yugoslavia. On one side of the bridge, the Bosniak community was predominant, on the other side, the majority were Croats. The bridge was later rebuilt, but how are the relations between people in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Mostar today, nearly three decades after the war ended? With the recent general elections in the country, is there any hope for change?
Listen in as Senior Research Fellow at NUPI, Kari Osland, discusses this with Professor Edina Bećirević (Security Studies at UNSA and co-founder of Atlantic Initiative) and politician Lana Prlić (Representative in the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Vice President for SDP BiH). See a recording of the podcast episode below.
Read more at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs’ website here.
