Writing in Transconflict, Matthew Parish, a former attorney in the Office of the High Representative (OHR), analyzes the BiH election results and proposals for a land swap between Serbia and Kosovo. Parish observes that RS President Milorad Dodik has “moved from participation solely in the institutions of the sub-sovereign ethnically Serb entity Republic Srpska, to playing a role in the multi-ethnic institutions of the Bosnian central state.” According to Parish, “Dodik’s participation in the multi-ethnic Bosnian central government, as easily the most popular Bosnian Serb politician, is a remarkable advance.”
Parish further writes, “The Office of the High Representative, the colonial governor imposed by the western powers to supervise politicians in Bosnia In 1997 in the immediate aftermath of war, amazingly still exists some 20 years later. It should not.”
