Abstract
The hegemonic framework used for both policy-making and analysis not only of the war in BiH1 but also of the post-war period remains one driven by the logic of ‘groupism’. The term, coined by Brubaker (2002), refers to the tendency to approach groups, including ethnic groups, as the basic units of analysis and the main protagonists in social life, with interests and agency as their attributes. This underlying logic was reflected in the General Framework Agreement, also known as the Dayton Agreement, with which the Bosnian War was concluded in November 1995. As part of the agreement, the conflict parties also adopted the Constitution of BiH (Annex 4 of the Dayton Agreement), which postulates the three ethnic groups — Bosniacs, Serbs and Croats — as the sovereign power-holders in the country. Such a model of governance is based on the assumption that the ethnic groups are homogenous, fixed and mappable.
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Stavrevska, E.B. (2016). Space, Class and Peace: Spatial Governmentality in Post-War and Post-Socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina. In: Björkdahl, A., Buckley-Zistel, S. (eds) Spatializing Peace and Conflict. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137550484_8
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