Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) is a good example of a state which has successfully pulled itself away from a state of total insecurity to relative security. After the brutal wars of the 1990s the region has managed, with international help, to maintain a peaceful and increasingly secure and prosperous future. Militias have been disarmed, the armed forces have been depoliticised and some regional states (including BiH) have been allowed to join international security groups like NATO. This is a long process that is far from completely fulfilled, but the increase in national security in BiH has allowed individual human security to flourish, and vice versa- the security of nations and the individuals who live in them are inextricably linked.