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Posts published by “Gentian Zyberi”

I work at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights of the University of Oslo. Previously I have worked at the Amsterdam Center for International Law of the University of Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights of Utrecht University, the Netherlands. During the last over twenty years I have done research, published and taught in the areas of international human rights, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and public international law at universities in the Netherlands, US, China, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, and Norway.

Thirty years from Dayton: Has the Bosnian Constitution found its legitimacy?

Written by Nedim Hogic /Cross-posted from EJIL: Talk where it was posted on 10 December 2025 This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Known as the Dayton Constitution, after the city in Ohio where the final rounds of peace negotiations involving representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Serbia, and Croatia took place, the Constitution was annexed to the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA) negotiated in that city and signed in Paris on December 14, 1995. The Constitution is often described as a straitjacket due to its preference for collective over individual rights, as reflected in numerous veto procedures…