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Bosnia's failure in creating a truth commission - How institutions and functions encourage post-conflict countries to create a truth commission
Kramm, Hauke (2012) Bosnia's failure in creating a truth commission - How institutions and functions encourage post-conflict countries to create a truth commission.
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| Abstract: | Although the use of truth and reconciliation commissions has grown considerably over the last years, little knowledge exists about the underlying causes that lead to the creation of a truth commission. What is missing is a clear-cut insight into the causes in order to draw conclusions from the best practices of countries that decided for a truth commission. By naming these causes, this study aims at explaining why Bosnia and Herzegovina fails to establish a truth commission. The 1992-1995 conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina showed how a fragile, yet community can disintegrate into a shattered entity of feuding ethnic groups living together in parallel societies, simultaneously creating bogeyman of each other. A truth commission might serve as a panacea for the EU-driven state-building process. By using a qualitative comparative analysis the study concludes, that no single theoretical concept itself can explain the why post-conflict countries are able to create a truth commission. It is rather a conjunction of multiple functionalist and institutionalists´ concepts that explains these causes. Concerning Bosnia and Herzegovina it shows, that most likely the truth commission approach is currently not a feasible option for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Encouraging factors like the conjunction of civil war with a post-war power sharing governmental system are not conducive for the Bosnian case. Furthermore the study shows that both in Bosnia as well as in general, that the influence of a third party mediator in a conflict often hinders the creation of a truth commission. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 88 social and public administration |
| Programme: | European Studies BSc (56627) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/61838 |
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