Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental SystemsConstitutional Engagement for the Transformation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (CONSENT BiH)
The project at a glance
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Start date:01 Jan 2026
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Duration in months:12
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Funding:Université du Luxembourg
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Principal Investigator(s):Josip GLAURDICChristophe LESSCHAEVE
About CONSENT BiH
Thirty years after the Dayton Peace Agreement, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains governed by institutions designed to end a war rather than to sustain a democracy. While those institutions succeeded in halting violence, they have hardened into a system of permanent vetoes, fragmentation, and political exhaustion.
For decades, constitutional reform has followed the same path: elite negotiations, mediated by external actors, conducted with little systematic knowledge of what citizens themselves consider fair, legitimate, or workable.
CONSENT BiH starts from a different premise. It asks a simple but neglected question:
More than half of the population was under eighteen – or not yet born – when Dayton was signed. They bear no responsibility for the war, yet continue to live with its constitutional consequences.
Combining focus groups, a nationally representative survey, and innovative conjoint experiments, our project places citizens at the center of constitutional inquiry. Rather than producing another technocratic blueprint, CONSENT BiH seeks to map the space of feasible compromise grounded in public preferences. Its aim is to turn data into dialogue, and dialogue into possibility – renewing constitutional imagination through evidence, not fear.