Adnan Džafić - Nezir Krčalo: Bosnian identity - destroying the paradigm of multilateralism“

The concept of identity contains in itself two characteristics: consistency and continuity in time. Although the term is thus used in psychology, these two characteristics are most commonly used in the analysis of identity research. If we proceed from this method of definition, the Bosnian society from the earliest times until 1992 had all the characteristics of multilateral society, while since 1992 there have been processes of internal and external destruction of this character of society. Members of all peoples who inhabited Bosnia from the earliest times, the existing culture they encountered cultivated with their own culture. This means that Bosnian society builted its multilateralism for centuries, whose characteristics are multi-ethnicity, multireligiousness and multiculturalism. All internal and external attacks on the continuity and life of Bosnian society did not destroy the fundamentals of its multilateralism. The structural mosaic of this society consists of the elements of the Illyrian, Slavic, Celtic, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and all the more recent elements that have influenced and influence the contemporary character of the Bosnian society. The positive effects of the intercivilizational heritage as one of the most important segments of Bosnian identity were significantly shaken in the early 1990s and continue to be continuously disturbed even today.