BOSNIA'S NOVEMBER ELECTIONS: Dayton stumbles (ICG Balkans Report N° 104)
BOSNIA'S NOVEMBER ELECTIONS: Dayton stumbles (ICG Balkans Report N° 104)

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Governance, Government/Political systems, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: ICG International Crisis Group
Summary/Abstract: Given the series of disappointing election results since the first post-Dayton elections in 1996, it is time for the international community to rethink an inherited strategy that places unrealistic hopes on elections. Instead, the international community should fully exercise the powers given to it under the Dayton Peace Accord to attack the economic and political causes of the tenacity of Bosnian nationalism. This report highlights critical issues demanding immediate decisions: How is the influence of extremists to be curbed? To what extent should the international community try directly to manage a protectorate in Bosnia? And to what extent, and in what respects, should the governance provisions in the Dayton Agreement be modified? Each of these issues will be the subject of forthcoming ICG reports.

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