Morale is pretty low in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The existence of the commun state is called into question again, politicians provoke, media polarize and the churches point out the wide differences between the ethnic groups at any given opportunity. Is the young state doomed to fail? Thorsten Gromes states in HSFK-Standpunkt 3/2009 Von der Krise in den Krieg? Vierzehn Jahre nach Kriegsende wächst in Bosnien und Herzegowina die Gewaltbereitschaft (Eve of Destruction? Bosnia and Herzegovina faces new violence) a rising readiness to use violence.