Publications

The Institute for Development Impact (I4DI) had the honor to collaborate with the Peacebuilding Initiative at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs to produce a policy brief on “Everyday Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. This brief examines how people in Bosnia and Herzegovina understand and sustain peace in everyday life. The study draws on ten focus-group discussions in Sarajevo and East Sarajevo, using a participatory Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping approach to elicit and map how participants perceive the conditions, factors,...

MBHEC was established in November 2023 to formalize and expand civilian cooperation between the State of Maryland and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its creation marked the twentieth anniversary of the Maryland–Bosnia and Herzegovina State Partnership Program, which since 2003 has linked the Maryland National Guard with Bosnian counterparts through defense and civil-military collaboration. While that partnership has long served as a foundation for mutual trust, its focus remained primarily on security cooperation. The establishment of MBHEC responded to a shared recognition...