Post by Damir Kapidzic

🇧🇦 Six days. Three cities. Seventy citizens. Forty-one recommendations. Bosnia and Herzegovina's national Citizens' Assembly on reconciliation has concluded, and the results speak for themselves. 🕊️ When we launched the deliberative process in Sarajevo at the end of March, the question was whether citizens from across BiH's divided communities could engage openly with one of the country's most sensitive challenges. Over the second weekend in Neum they got to understand each others views better. By the final session in Teslić, we had an answer. Every recommendation passed with at least 85% support. Seven were adopted unanimously. 🏛️ As lead of the design team, I helped advocate for and shape the format and structure of this process from the start. Watching citizens take genuine ownership of it across three weekends was a professionally rewarding experience. This is BiH's sixth citizens' assembly in under five years. Deliberative democracy here is no longer experimental but is becoming an established part of the country's democratic landscape. 🤝 The 41 recommendations will now be integrated into a final report that Assembly Members will hand over and present to the BiH Parliament's Joint Commission for European Integration. https://lnkd.in/dG3ezEYc #CitizensAssembly #DeliberativeDemocracy #DemocraticInnovation #BosniaAndHerzegovina #Reconciliation #EUIntegration Nedim Alibegovic Vladana Vasić Elmin Fehrić Ivan Jovanov Dzenana Dedic Goran Kucera Alem Hamzić Dalibor Savic Ivo Čarapina Mirna Dabic Davidovic Marko Lončar Eva Bordos Nicolas Pantelick Teona (Nešović) Birkner Fermin Cordoba Ivo - Ivan L. Damjan Jugovic Adrijana Hanušić Bećirović Ejub Kucuk Arijana T. Haris Peljto