Freeze the evidence
Fix sources, versions, dates and provenance before assessment begins.
Independent policy research · Bosnia and Herzegovina
Evidence that can withstand scrutiny.
ARM Policy Lab turns financial records, legal procedure and institutional conduct into audit-ready diagnostics for reform, oversight and public-interest action.
Core methodAccounting + law + data
Policy scopeBiH and Western Balkans
Output standardTraceable and reviewable
The institute
From policy promise to institutional proof.
ARM Policy Lab is an independent platform for applied research on institutional accountability, rule of law, EU integration and industrial transition. It focuses on the implementation gap: the distance between formal rules and what institutions actually do.
Our work combines forensic accounting, procedural reconstruction and structured evidence analysis. The result is not advocacy by assertion, but a record that another analyst, institution or court can independently test.
Method
A disciplined chain from record to conclusion.
The framework is designed to make every analytical transition visible and challengeable.
Classify the claim
Separate fact, legal proposition, expert inference and unresolved allegation.
Test sufficiency
Ask whether the record supports the proposed conclusion and competing explanations.
Map accountability
Connect mandate, knowledge, action, omission and institutional consequence.
Bound the conclusion
State what is proved, what is inferred and what remains unknown.
Current work
Research programs built for institutional use.
Each program links a defined public problem to a reproducible analytical method and a usable policy output.
Governance Resilience Framework
A structured model for testing exposure, institutional response and implementation failure across complex governance cases.
- Evidence sufficiency and contradiction mapping
- Independent outcome coding
- Audit-ready research trail
Integrity of judicial records and decisions
A dual-control model for testing whether the evidentiary record and the reasoning of a decision remain mutually verifiable.
Public-sector accountability
A technical accountability architecture combining management certification, internal controls and independent oversight.
EU reform implementation
Diagnostics of the gap between reform commitments, institutional delivery and measurable public outcomes.
Industrial transition and integrity
Financial and governance analysis of decarbonization exposure, disclosure quality and transition risk.
Flagship case studyZENICA
2022—2026
2022—2026
Case-based policy diagnostics
When formal protection and institutional response diverge.
The Zenica case study examines the reporting of financial irregularities, a court-confirmed unlawful dismissal, subsequent institutional responses and procedural inconsistencies. The purpose is not to replace adjudication, but to identify where protection, oversight and enforcement mechanisms cease to function as a coherent system.
Protection failure
Procedural integrity
Institutional contradiction
Enforcement gap
Outputs
Designed to be read, tested and used.
Clear evidentiary boundaries, documented assumptions and practical pathways for institutional action.
Forensic case studies
Chronologies, evidence indexes, claim matrices and contradiction maps.
Implementation-gap reports
Mandate-to-conduct testing across institutions and reform frameworks.
Policy briefs and non-papers
Focused recommendations for public authorities, EU actors and oversight bodies.
Technical frameworks
Replicable methods, scoring systems, validation plans and decision rules.
Lead expertise
Armin Mešić, CPA
Forensic policy analyst · Certified accountant · Independent researcher
The Lab is led from the intersection of financial reporting, evidentiary analysis and direct experience with judicial and institutional processes. This combination enables research that follows both the numbers and the procedure.
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Bring a difficult institutional question. Leave with a testable map.
ARM Policy Lab is open to joint research, donor-funded projects and technical collaboration with civil society, EU and international institutions, academic partners and oversight bodies.
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Zenica / Sarajevo · Bosnia and Herzegovina