Özet:

Exactly 25 years after the signing of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which settled the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there is still no social, political and economic stability, the establishment of which was expected upon the signing of the peace agreement. Society in Bosnia and Herzegovina is divided at all levels. Primarily political and territorial, and in terms of tolerance of members of the constituent peoples, which makes it difficult to establish common state values, the possibility of peaceful coexistence of Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs and others and building a state with unique generally accepted state characteristics. The Croatian people are the oldest indigenous people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and with its continuous emigration that began during the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina and has not stopped to this day, the question of its existence is threatened. The research which is the base for this paper, was conducted by the method of an electronic survey on a sample of 350 randomly selected Bosnian Croats. The results of the survey indicate general dissatisfaction of Croats with life in Bosnia and Herzegovina (94,90 % of respondents), which is primarily caused by: high levels of corruption, general feelings of insecurity, distrust in the legal and political system and unequal position of Croats in relation to Serbs and Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The fact that large number of Bosnian Croats have a stronger sense of belonging to the Republic of Croatia than to Bosnia and Herzegovina and that the 34,00 % of respondents among Bosnian Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina and 35,70 % of them in the Republic of Croatia feel like a foreigner, the poor economic conditions in the state, the selective population policy of the high-developed (European) countries and the chain migration indicate the urgent need to resolve the Croatian question in Bosnia and Herzegovina, otherwise the Bosnian Croats from the constituent people could become just one of the Others.

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