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Conflicts are a natural companion of both man and society. Throughout human history, the contents have changed, but also the forms of conflict. What is more significant characteristic of the conflicts is that they were mostly violent and with great consequences, not only for the actors but also for their contemporaries. That is why conflicts are important for sociology and psychology as well as for anthropology and history. Conflicts have their positive characteristics, because they are essentially forms of social change and individual development of man and his ethics, and other characteristics. Conflict most often gets a new state, which from the experience of the previous states represents progress in scientific views, and better understanding of current state. Therefore, we could say that conflicts are a natural state of both society and man in a mutual, but also social relationship. There are different forms of conflict from ethnic, national, religious, political to intergroup and within group with different contents and motives. All of them constitute a wealth of social relations and social movement that takes place with unequal intensity and in different social conditions. Ethnic, national, religious and political conflicts have developed and stood out throughout history. Different theories observe and understand conflicts in different ways depending on their intensity and scope. We will consider from the sociological aspect some theories and approaches to understanding conflicts, such as ethnic and national, given their historical foundation and significance in modern societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globalization and transition are two processes that have the same goal and that goal is to change the current or existing state. Globalization is change on a global scale while the transition is taking place within one or more countries. Globalization has made the world different. From the first economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo to today's economic theorists, the basis of social change, especially at the global level, is a change in the sphere of economy and in the economic structure of both the developed and the developing countries. Economic changes condition both the social as well as the political changes. These changes do not come one without the other. The common basis and desire of the agents of change is to achieve them in accordance with the set goals and achievements that are desirable for its protagonists. However, changes often take place against the will and expectations of its protagonists and actors. The consequences are often unpredictable although controlled and programmed. The programmed changes are part of the globalization strategy whose actors are developed countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the impact of Hague Tribunal verdicts on the process of reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I analyze the original documents of Hague Accusations for crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and final verdicts with imposed sentences. As an example I take some elements of the indictment and the verdict to Slobodan Milošević, Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić, Jadranko Prlić and others, and Rasim Delić. After researching the documents, I show how brutal facts of war crimes mutually relate to the interpretation of these facts by the public (international and domestic) and the political instrumentalization of those facts that goes from distortion to negation of factual events. However, research shows that the process of reconciliation and restoration of confidence is strongly influenced by the truth that Hague tribunal determines in the process of punishing those responsible for crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These verdicts are based on verified facts, and not feelings and emotions. These facts are the basis of the real truth about the war and the events that took place in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina but also wider. In conclusion, I suggest that the process of reconciliation must be followed by a new policy that leaves the war in the past and turns to the future, and which backs the trust in coexistence and respects the rights of citizens throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I analyse the characteristics of the international criminal law as a part of the public international law and as a specific research discipline, as well as the characteristics of the relationship between the international criminal law and the criminal law in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This paper reviews the historical-juridical position of the international criminal law through the debate on its theoretical and political status, and the practical implications and effectiveness of this type of legal system, which is the subject of analysis about the complex ways the International Tribunal in The Hague is functioning. On the other hand, the character of the dominant influence of the international criminal law on the legal structure is discussed, as well as functioning of the criminal law of Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in general, of the complex domestic legal system. The paper's thesis is that despite the legal heteronomity and the redistributive criminal justice legislation, international criminal law exists, and that it is in the fundamental relationship with the international criminal justice system as an ambient of coordination and coherent functioning of the criminal legal norms at the global level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]