West’s Last Chance To Get Serious on Bosnia
Bodo Weber December 1st, 2009
On December 1st, Balkan Insight published an OpEd by DPC Senior Associate Bodo Weber, a reaction to a comment by Mathew Parish (Balkan Insight, November 19th), former chief legal adviser to the Brcko district mediator Robert Owen, in which Parish calls the disintegration of the Bosnian state “inevitable” and advises the international community to start mediating a peaceful way to Republika Srpska’s independence. Bodo Weber in his reaction explains why Bosnia’s disintegration is far from being inevitable and why it could not proceed peacefully. With the ill-designed Butmir talks having obviously failed which both the EU and the US have entered without a Plan B, Weber argues, talk of partition as “inevitable” is nevertheless in danger of becoming an attractive excuse for the International community to make a speedy exit from Bosnia’s current stalemate. You can read the full article here.
