Job opportunities

It has been a riviting week. I have resigned, and am leaving the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the 16th of February. I will be unemployed from then on....

However, opportunities ahead: the position of Chief Prosecutor of the ICTY will be vacant from September onwards, as will be the position of High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. For the latter position Larry Butler's name is mentioned, so I am afraid I do not stand a fair chance. Whos is going to succeed Del Ponte is still a mystery.

The departure of both of those persons, who play an important role in BiH, is greeted with mixed feelings. Up until now both have not delivered what they were supposed to do: Del Ponte did not bring Karadzic and Mladic to trial, and Schwartz-Schilling did not manage to reform and harmonise the Bosnian political playing field enough for the international community to feel comfortable leaving the country, and close down
OHR.
However, with tensions rising in BiH regarding Kosovo, the departure of those two people, how ineffective they might have been, might not be chosen at the right moment.