This peace deal ended Europe’s last major war 30 years ago. It provides important lessons for today’s fractured world
- Written by Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
Thirty years ago this week, the Dayton Accords were signed in Paris, bringing an end to the Bosnian war, the most destructive conflict Europe had witnessed since 1945.
Weeks of intensive negotiations at an air base in Dayton, Ohio, finally produced a settlement to a conflict that accompanied the disintegration of Yugoslavia and saw more than 100,00...
