Life in Bosnia’s eternal status quo
Controlled chaos and frozen conflicts 22 years after the war.
|2017.05.25
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Institutions have been emptied of all meaning and are just a mere curtain behind which the real processes of satisfying interests of the political and criminal elite are occurring.
Unemployment is not the only reason citizens are leaving Bosnia and Herzegovina. The ever-increasing reason is the hopeless situation and a life in an eternal status quo.
When a situation like the current one in Bosnia and Herzegovina goes on for a decade or so, citizens normalize it, start adapting, and behave alike themselves.
Nidžara Ahmetašević
Nidžara Ahmetašević was K2.0’s regional editor. Nidžara has a Ph.D in media assistance in post conflict countries from the University of Graz, Austria. Her focus as a journalist is on media development in post-conflict countries, hate speech, human rights, feminism and migrations.
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in English.