Dayton Accords End Bosnian War
Negotiated at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, in November 1995 and signed in Paris on December 14, the Dayton Agreement ended the Bosnian War. It divided Bosnia-Herzegovina into two entities: the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska, under a weak central government. NATO’s IFOR (later SFOR) force enforced the ceasefire. While it ended the killing, the agreement locked in ethnic division and created a dysfunctional political structure that has struggled to function ever since.
- Year: 1995 CE
- Category: Diplomatic
