Prisener was speaking at an international conference on reconciliation and human rights organised in the Bosnian capital by the UNDP, the Globalism Institute, and the Global Reconciliation Network.
The four-day conference pooled about a hundred scientists, political activists and representatives of NGOs, who will also discuss the possible establishment of a commission for truth and reconciliation that would operate on the model of a similar commission in South Africa.
Data from the UNDP Early Warning System show that 70 percent of Bosnian citizens believe that the last decade's war had a very strong impact on their lives, while a vast majority think that war criminals must be put on trial and punished.
Prisener stressed though that it was evident that the judiciary in Bosnia lacked the capacity to prosecute thousands of people responsible for war crimes, of which he said ordinary people were aware too.
More than 55 percent of citizens believe that along with courts a separate commission should be set up to establish the truth and build trust, Prisener said.
Former US presidential candidate Howard Dean, who is also taking part in the conference, advocated truth and reconciliation in Bosnia as well.
A multiethnic country cannot survive without reconciliation and forgiveness, Dean said, stressing at the same time that the country's main problem were economic issues and that the country needed more jobs and investments so that the overall political situation could improve.
Miodrag Zivanovic, a professor at the Banja Luka Faculty of Philosophy disagreed with Dean, saying that the most important thing now was to change the existing constitutional order because it generated new divisions and kept different ethnic communities apart.
"The distance between ethnic communities (in Bosnia-Herzegovina) is bigger than ten years ago," Zivanovic said, concluding that it would take decades to replace the existing ethnic matrixes with new systems of value.