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Daytonsko-pariški ugovor o miru za Bosnu i Hercegovinu - rješenja i primjena
Dayton-Paris peace agreement for Bosnia and Herzegovina - solutions and applications

Author(s): Ivo Miro Jović
Subject(s): Governance, Political history, Government/Political systems, Developing nations, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Matica hrvatska Mostar
Keywords: Dayton Peace Agreement; constitutional nations; Sarajevo; Mostar; entities;

Summary/Abstract: Dayton Accords is the peace agreement reached on Nov. 21, 1995, i.e twenty years ago. During this period many scientific meetings were held in the world, and in Bosnia and Herzegovina too. The abstract of all these meetings could be the question if this international agreement’s good or not, whether it should be changed or upgraded, or neither of these things should be done. Without any doubts, Dayton Accords was historical moment not only for B&H, but also for its people and nations, because this agreement’s result was peace. Nevertheless, we didn’t get fair peace which meant equality of all its citizens and nations. It is all proved by the solution – one country, two entities, and three constitutional but not sovereign nations. Dissolution of B&H into two entities and disintegration of constitutional structure and agreement of two parties (Bosniaks and representatives of Yugoslav Federation) harming by this third party (Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina), brought the constant crisis of Bosnian and Herzegovinian society. This work brings few examples of violation of agreed obligations or secretly changed solutions by legislative power of B&H. All changes have been made mostly by harming Croatian people in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Experience has shown that all these changes damaged overall state of Bosnian and Herzegovinian society, and they didn’t bring prosperity for this country. Dayton Peace Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina needs to experience return to authenticity and necessary changes in order to create more equitable, more functional and cheaper union of three constitutional nations and its citizens.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 89-90
  • Page Range: 83-93
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Croatian