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Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Victim Capital for Recognition and Redress -- Chapter 3. The Bosnian Conflict, its Aftermath and Victims' Demands -- Chapter 4. 'Why is my leg worth less?' Disability and the Loss of Life of Military and Civilian War Victims -- Chapter 5. Graves and Redress: Families of the Missing Persons and the 'Srebrenica Effect' -- Chapter 6. Between Recognition and Oblivion: Victims of Sexual Violence and Torture -- Chapter 7. Victimhood, Recognition and Redress from a Comparative Perspective.

Stećci are medieval tombstones. Scattered across the landscapes of the Western Balkans in their thousands, they amalgamate the historical, cultural and religious components of medieval societies in the region, and are expressions of identity, social systems, politics and religious belief. Through these monuments, a diverse spectrum of identities was enunciated, providing us with a rare opportunity to investigate the archaeo-historic development of medieval South-eastern Europe.

This study inquires the issues of multi-party democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Hereinafter: B&H), the role of the International community, as well as its contribution to the overall institutionalization of ethnic identities in B&H. The author critically reviews theoretical and practical issues from the Dayton Peace Accords (1995) to Prud Agreement (2008) and attempts to indicate the necessity of transformation of the Constitution of B&H (Annex 4 to the Dayton Peace Accords) implementation of which further disintegrates and divides Bosnian society. The ethnic engineering in B&H displayed itself as a dangerously attractive for its simplicity, yet disastrous, since it results in an authoritarian regime that could be confronted only by constant emancipatory efforts.

The aim of this paper is to point to the specificities of economic and political transformations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) and the Western Balkan in the context of economic and political changes in the global environment that can significantly affect the EU accession process. An analysis of the position of B&H in the group of Western Balkans countries and the perspective of economic growth was conducted by focusing on the political and economic criteria as well as on the current obstacles these countries are facing, specifically, based on their political and economic background and in conditions where external risks are growing.

All these countries are commited to implementing structural reforms because the commitment of all the countries towards Europe, which means convergence towards the European countries and a reduction in the size of the GDP per capita. In order to achieve such long-term goals, it is necessary to implement structural reforms that will result in stimulating production, trade, financial flows and reforming the labor market and the public sector. That is why growth of investment and exports is the main determinant of long-term growth. This paper gives an overview of the basic economic features of B&H compared with the other countries that belong to Western Balkan region, as well as projections on the certain macroeconomic indicators in the forthcoming period.