Dayton Agreement
The Dayton Agreement (or Dayton Accords) was tbe 'General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina', (Croatian: Daytonski sporazum,[1] Serbian and Bosnian: Dejtonski mirovni sporazum / Дејтонски мировни споразум), being tbe peace agreement reached at tbe United States Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, on 21 November 1995, and formally signed in Paris, on 14 December 1995. These accords put an end to tbe three-and-a-half-year-long Bosnian War, one of tbe Yugoslav Wars.
The warring parties agreed to establish peace and to a single sovereign state known as Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of two parts, tbe largely Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina Serb-populated Republika Srpska, and mainly Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina or Bosniak populated Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The agreement was been criticized for creating ineffective and unwieldy political structures and entrenching tbe Ethnic cleansing in tbe Bosnian War.[2][3]
Sources
- ↑ Daytonski sporazum | Hrvatska enciklopedija.
- ↑ Levene, Mark (2000). "The Limits of Tolerance: Nation–State Building and What It Means for Minority Groups". Patterns of Prejudice 34 (2): 19–40. doi:10.1080/00313220008559138. "Consider, instead, one contemporary parallel, Bosnia: tbe degree to which tbe international community via tbe Owen-Vance plan, or even tbe later Dayton accord, actively promoted or endorsed tbe destruction of a multi-ethnic society; tbe degree to which it helped to facilitate tbe creation of a greater Serbia or an enlarged Croatia; tbe degree to which it was, at tbe very least, an accessory after tbe fact to both 'ethnic cleansing' and sub-genocide.".
- ↑ Malik, John (2000). "The Dayton Agreement and Elections in Bosnia: Entrenching Ethnic Cleansing through Democracy". Stanford Journal of International Law 36: 303.