The Stream

Bosnia’s identity crisis

Will the country’s first post-war census build unity or reinforce ethnic divisions?

Interviewers prepare their questionnaire forms in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 8 October 2013, in preparation for Bosnia’s first census since the Balkan war in which an estimate 100,000 people were killed. Fehim Demir/EPA

How will Bosnia’s first post-war census alter the country’s ethnically-based system of political power? Some citizens believe the census will worsen ethnic divisions while others say it could it be a chance to improve national unity. New data is also expected to reveal more precisely how Bosnia was changed by the 1992-95 war that killed around 100,000 people and displaced 2 million. Join the conversation at 19:30 GMT.

In this episode of The Stream, we speak with:
 
Jasmin Mujanovic @JasminMuj
Visiting scholar, Columbia Univeristy
 
Adnan Huskic @AHuskic
Lecturer, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology
 
Ivana Cvetkovic Bajrovic @HowIvana
Program officer, National Endowment for Democracy
 
Darko Brkan @darko_brkan
Coalition Equality
 
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