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Abstract:
This article analyses European Union’s efforts in providing expert assistance to countries that suffered from violent conflict in their recent history. It first presents the general concept of peace-building, European Union’s peace-building activities, and its expert assistance, conducted as a part of peace-building activities. Then, this article presents the findings of a case study, conducted on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH). This article concludes that the European Union is relatively successful in training individual employees in BIH’s administration and police forces; however, it is highly unsuccessful in pursuing broader political reforms that need to be addressed in order to completely eliminate all causes that could cause potential resurrection of conflict in the country. In addition, the European Union insufficiently engages itself in another important aspect of peacebuilding, that is, the process of developing the civil society. As conclusion, this article renders some recommendations that could improve the situation in the country and be also applied in other post-conflict areas.
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