ABSTRACT
The seeds of national sentiment had developed in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia principally because of alterations in the character of sovereignty. The sentiment of nationalism continued to prevent the development of pan-Slavic brotherhood. Bosnia was to become the hub of national sentiment in the early 1990s in the Balkans. The ethos of the international community was to change drastically in 1994, after a mortar shell landed in a busy Sarajevo marketplace, killing sixty-eight people and wounding two hundred others. The consequences of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina are vast and incalculable, but it is generally estimated that 258,000 inhabitants died or are missing. While the official functions of the Peace Implementation Council and the High Representative are unclear in the context of both Bosnian and International law, the authority exercised by the Office of the High Representative (OHR) is considerable.
