ABSTRACT
There have been serious security incidents in Bosnia-hercegovina (BiH) since the end of the war in 1995. Torture victims are often particularly vulnerable to economic insecurity. In contrast to other categories of war victims in BiH, torture victims do not have a legal status, and hence they have no rights. In BiH, deep divisions persist in certain areas. In Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje in central BiH, an invisible line marks the boundary between the Bosniak and Croat parts of the town. In BiH, the lack of deep contact may help to explain why Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats alike are still prone to generalize about members of other ethnic groups and to attribute to them an array of disagreeable characteristics. The ultimate example of trust-impeding behaviour in BiH centres on the outstanding issue of missing persons. Discrimination, whether actual or perceived, is a serious problem in BiH and fundamentally impedes the development of any sense of mutual acceptance.
