Participants said normalisation of relations was unstoppable, but that reconciliation was a long term process that, with the necessary facing of the past, would last for a number of generations.
They concluded that the truth was necessary for facing the past, while a change in the way of thinking and communicating, which should be more civic and less national, was necessary for the normalisation of relations.
HHO leader Zarko Puhovski said the International Court of Justice's ruling in Bosnia and Herzegovina's genocide lawsuit against Serbia was a disastrous legal document which paved the way for further precedents by introducing the concept of municipal genocide.
Speaking of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Puhovski said that apart from the relations between the three constituent peoples - Croats, Muslims and Serbs - the situation was further complicated by the role of the international community. He added that despite many positive contributions, the international community, because of uneven criteria, treated the entire region in the wrong fashion.
Puhovski also said that in Bosnia and Herzegovina members of all three peoples had committed crimes when they could.
It is wrong to say that only one side is responsible just as it is wrong to say that all sides are equally responsible, and this is why it is difficult to talk about this peacefully, said Puhovski.
Vesna Pesic from Belgrade's Centre for Peace and Development of Democracy said it had been believed that international courts' verdicts would help reconciliation. She added, however, that the ICJ ruling had caused bitterness in Bosnia and Herzegovina, while bringing relief to the Serbian authorities as they would not have to pay war damages.
Pesic also said that at this moment it was unlikely that Bosnian Serb wartime military leader Ratko Mladic would be extradited to the Hague war crimes tribunal, or that a declaration condemning the genocide in Srebrenica would be adopted given that all Serbian political parties were focused on the Kosovo status issue.