ABSTRACT
This chapter examines statebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) from the perspective of real property rights. It focuses on the property situation during the latest armed conflict in BiH and subsequent to the General Framework Agreement for Peace (GFAP). Exerting ethnically exclusive control over a territory became the objective of the conflict. The aim of the laborious intervention of the international community for the restitution of properties of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) was to consolidate the country's statehood. It discusses the Bonn powers, which has relevance to the intervention in relation to property restitution. Settling inherited property problems, and drawing up a development policy which properly addresses land use, is rightly a question of transition for the BiH. Unless BiH politicians start to develop a state-level vision, leaving ethnic and private interest behind, the country will never take steps forward towards positive peace and consolidated statehood.
