According to the DPA International news agency the motto of the Holy Father's trip will be "May peace be with you."
Civil war in the country left around 100,000 people dead between 1992 and 1995, which involved Bosnia's three main ethnic groups: Muslim Bosniaks, Orthodox Christian Serbs and Catholic Croats.
Pope Francis will spend time with politicians and members of the Catholic clergy who will talk to him about the recent war, and visit various cemeteries.
The Holy Father will stay in the capital Sarajevo for a day and return to Rome in the evening.
During his time in the country, he is expected to host an open-air Mass in a 60,000 seat stadium, the same place where John Paul II led a service in 1997.
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said: "There are no particular security concerns."
In the Pope's honour, a metal workshop is making a special bell that will be installed in Sarajevo Cathedral.
Bosnian Cardinal Vinko Puljic told the Catholic News Service that Francis' visit to Sarajevo is a "bright spot of life in this country.
"[A] wave of optimism swept this country. We felt again: we are not forgotten," he said.
He added that leaders of the other two main religious groups in Bosnia were welcoming Pope Francis "with an open heart."
For example, the Pope will sit on a specially-made walnut throne made by local Muslim carpenters - it features symbols of Christianity, religious symbols and traditional Bosnian and Herzegovinian images.
He is also scheduled to hold interreligious discussions with Muslim, Orthodox and Jewish leaders.
Chief cleric Husein Kavazovic, the head of the Islamic community in Bosnia, said Bosnian Muslims are also welcoming the visit: "It was the same when the great friend of Bosnia, Pope John Paul II, visited, the same applies for Pope Francis. It is not only my view, it is the view of the entire Islamic community," he said after the visit was announced.
The Pope is expected to travel to a number of countries following this trip, including the United States and Cuba in autumn.