Lessons from Bosnia — Part 2
Dayton Peace Agreement
I do not want to bore you with details of the actual agreement (and oh my goodness, those are dull) since that wouldn’t add to the article. Besides, we are planning to make a documentary about ‘paper’ vs ‘reality’, i.e. show the boring details of the document with the very interesting way they translate into real life. If you’d like to know more about the documentary, please visit the link below.
In this article, I will talk about the Dayton Peace Agreement (Dayton) as the people of Bosnia see it and experience it. First off, I’ll mention something about some of the assumptions on which Dayton is based, which will inevitably lead to a little bit about the history of Bosnia, and then what Dayton did.
We’ve always thought of Dayton as an internal issue. Hence, it never occurred to us that we should talk about Dayton in terms of a ‘global trend’, at least not until the war in Ukraine. At one point it was suggested that they write another ‘Dayton’ for Ukraine. I know many Bosnians (myself included) who sent messages to everyone we could to advise…
