Segregated Education and Texts : a Challenge to Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The article addresses the post-war education with special emphasis on history education in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the twelve years before 2007. The focus is on the efforts of the international community. While there have been numerous attempts to address the segregation of education and to change hatred-spreading history textbooks, the results have been modest. The inconvenient truth of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina remains: segregation in education and history teaching have continued for a generation, causing many problems for the development of a multicultural society. The analysis utUizes previous research and debates on post-conflict education and develops recommendations for future post-conflict situations based on the Bosnia case