Dugo putovanje u Dejton: međunarodne inicijative za mirno okončanje oružanih sukoba u Bosni i Hercegovini od 1992. do 1994. godine
The Long Road to Dayton: International Peace Initiatives in Bosnia and Herzegovina Armed Conflict from 1992 to 1994

Author(s): Marko Dašić, Stevan Nedeljković
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Yugoslav crisis; London conference on Former Yugoslavia; Vance-Owen Peace Plan; Owen-Stoltenbegr Plan; contact Group; International mediation
Summary/Abstract: Even today, 20 years after Dayton Peace Agreement, Bosnia and Herzegovina hasn‘t become democratic, stable, and built on european values state. We can state the same for Bosnian civil society. Fragments of nationalism and legacy of the Yugoslav wars are most visible in the Balkan country. “Yugoslavia in miniature” resits reforms that take into account contemporary international and european relations. The road to the Dayton Peace Agreement was long and characterized by concomitant use of diplomacy and military force, but also the failure of international community. Repeated diplomatic efforts by European community, and then with United States jointly, through institutionalized forms of international organization (UN, NATO, cScE), informal (contact Group), and ad hoc incurred for the former Yugoslavia (International conference on the Former Yugoslavia) failed to stop armed conflicts and to impose peace. The authors of this paper examine all relevant international initiatives undertaken since 1992 to 1994 with the aim of preventing the war in BiH and, also the causes and consequences of their failure. Simultaneously, attention has been given, at certain places, to inner political changes in BiH that we have identified for critical distortionary factors of achieving peace. Finally, we provide a look at the implications of (un)solved Yugoslav crisis for the former Yugoslav republics.

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