Newswise — Tufts University Professor R. Bruce Hitchner has been involved in drafting a constitution for Kosovo and in 2006 he traveled to Kosovo as a member of a Public International Law and Policy Group team to meet with Prime Minister Hashim Thaci and other leaders to discuss the constitutional draft.
Since 1996 Professor Hitchner been actively engaged in public policy initiatives that advance peace, stability and democratization in Bosnia in his capacity as chair of a non-governmental organization which he founded, the Dayton Peace Accords Project. This has involved the organization of conferences, the writing of major opinion pieces, reports, and co-authoring of a book, "Making Justice Work" (Century Foundation). Most significantly since 2005, he has been involved in direct active engagement with Bosnian governmental and political leaders and the international community in reforming the Dayton constitution of Bosnia with the financial support of the European Commission, Nordic states, Switzerland, the United States Institute of Peace, the German Marshall Fund, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Since 2007 he also advises the High Representative/European Union Special Representative in Bosnia, Miroslav Lajcak on constitutional reform and political affairs.
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