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Reports and briefings

Monitoring and evaluation arrangements for the implementation of community policing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, January 2009

Bosnia and Herzegovina

What are the challenges in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Bosnia and Herzegovina suffered more damage and more loss of life during the conflicts of the early 1990s than any other state of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

More than a decade after the conflict ended, the security situation is much improved but Bosnia is still struggling to overcome the ethnic divisions and political cynicism that continue to frustrate reconciliation and state-building.

What we do

In Bosnia and Herzegovina we focus on community-based policing and arms transfer control initiatives.

Working with our partner organisation Center for Security Studies (CSS), joint work includes:

researching lessons learned from previous community-based policing initiatives and testing different tools in communities throughout Bosnia

developing guidelines for police-community partnerships as part of our community-based policing work

working in four locations on community safety and community-based policing

'Safer Community Plans' to tackle security and safety issues developed with residents, police and local authorities

supporting the Bosnian Government to respond to international arms transfer control initiatives

promoting more responsible arms transfers in line with EU policy and international best practice