Speaking to reporters in Banja Luka last week, Rolf Kappel from the Swiss institute said that better economic security, lower poverty and better employment would significantly improve the process of refugee return.
An opinion poll covering 1,800 households in Bosnia-Herzegovina shows that two-thirds of returnees want to stay in their new homes, 20 percent are undecided and 10 percent want to leave their homes.
The fact that most respondents are willing to live in a multiethnic environment is encouraging, but what disappoints is the fact that more than 30 percent of respondents believe that freedom of speech and political freedoms are restricted.
Only 36 percent of respondents believe that the country has a good future.
"More than 13 percent of respondents have complained about difficult living conditions, while 50 percent believe that the situation in the country will not change in the next five years," Kappel said.
The survey was financed by the Swiss Directorate for Development and Cooperation (SDC), which has provided EUR 340 million worth of humanitarian assistance to Bosnia since 1991.