ROUND TABLE

'Serbia’s and Croatia’s Influence on Political Processes in Bosnia-Herzegovina from the 1970s onwards’

Sarajevo, November 14-15, 2019

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One of the two round tables planned for the first year of the three-year project “Legacy of Yugoslavia and the Future of the Region” was held at the Sarajevo Faculty of Political Sciences on November 14-15, 2019.

The project is realized with the assistance from the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Belgrade.

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The Sarajevo round table under the title referred to above assembled representatives of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s academic community.

The said conference was meant to examine the way in which Serbia and Croatia has been influencing political processes in Bosnia-Herzegovina since the 1970s and ensuing changes in the stances of B-H leaderships.

“As members of the academic community, we want to analyze and expose the facts about these developments, and our understanding of the said influences. I hope our debate would provide the opportunity to today’s policy-makers in Bosnia, as well as to policy-makers for Bosnia-Herzegovina, to learn a thing or two,” said historian Husnija Kamberovic.

Though participants in the conference can speak from the angle of Bosnia-Herzegovina, they are fully aware of all developments at Serbia’s and Croatia’s political arenas, and the origins of the two state’s influence on Bosnia-Herzegovina, he added.

In her opening address to the conference, Draga Bozinovic of the Helsinki Committee said the main objective of the project was to contribute to regional normalization and modernization, as well as to the culture of memory resting on fractography.

She explained that such meetings assembling academics and students of history, political science, sociology and humanities would be organized in university centers in the countries emerging from Yugoslavia.

The two-day conference at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo was divided into three panels covering the periods the 1970s-1990s, the 1990s-2000, and 2000-2019.