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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]

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Transition disintegrates old creations, not only economic, but also family, customary and traditional ones of different peoples and climates. Its influence on the very nature of the movement of capital, money, technology, but also labour force is indisputable. By changing the place of residence, the great work transition and migration (mostly work transition) have a great influence on the change of family relations, on tradition and on the adoption and acceptance of the new value system and rules of the country in which they live. This certainly contributes to greater rights and freedoms of family members, greater rights of women in relation to the domicile country or country of migration, greater opportunities in the educational process and an increase in personal rights and freedoms in relation to traditional and rights in countries from which the families have emigrated. Of course, economic and educational independence contribute to that process, but also the democracy of the developed countries. Precisely the clash between the old and the traditional, and in the encounter with the new, creates a great family conflict, and that is the abandonment of outdated or traditional family models and stereotypes. In the process of transition, family models are universalized and become common regardless of their origin and domicile stereotypes. This speaks best about the democratization, not only of the family and marriage, but also about the democratic system and the achieved rights of individuals. This is especially reflected in the forms of family life, marriage, its dissolution, the right to property, and the rights and position of children, social and individual care and obligations in the process of guardianship and socialization. These are all issues that require consideration from all aspects, not only from formally legal and social ones, but above all from the aspect of new social relations and necessary models in order to more fully realize individual and collective human rights and to leave family stereotypes in the past. [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]

On the basis of this little comparison and review of the principles and practice of domestic and international criminal law, it is clear that there is international criminal law, not only as research but also application disciplines whose standards are applied in the local criminal justice process. Such practice and legal experience, as we have shown, has a history that goes back into the history of war and civil conflict, but also has its present and future. Theoretical disputes, including disputes of some authors over validation and effectiveness of international criminal law and its incorportion into domestic legislation or its alignment, remains in the sphere of debate and even different approaches. [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]