Ten years on from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in November 1995, the legacy of the Bosnian war still shapes every aspect of the political, social and economic environment of the tiny state. This state of affairs is highlighted by the fact that Bosnia is still under international control, with the Office of the International H
igh Representative regularly using its powers to dismiss elected presidents, prime-ministers and MPs and to impose legislation over the resistance of elected legislatures at national, regional and local level. What has changed in the ten years since Dayton? Is international regulation helping to establish a sustainable peace in Bosnia? What lessons can be learned for nation-building in Bosnia? This volume was previously published as a special issue of the leading journal "International Peacekeeping".
Contents
INTRODUCTION: Peace without Politics?
David Chandler
PART ONE: REASSESSING DAYTON
The Bosnian State a Decade after Dayton
Sumantra Bose
From Dayton to Europe
David Chandler
PART TWO: IMPOSING REFORM FROM ABOVE
Economic Reform and the Transformation of the Payment Bureaux
Dominik Zaum
Police Reform: Peace-building through Democratic Policing
Gemma Collantes Celador
The Return of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons: From Coercion to Sustainability?
Daniela Heimerl
PART THREE: ENCOURAGING REFORM FROM BELOW
Empowering Women? An Assessment of International Gender Policies in Bosnia
Vanessa Pupavac
Civil Society in Bosnia Ten Years after Dayton
Adam Fagan
Local Institutional Engineering: A Tale of Two Cities, Mostar and Brčko
Florian Bieber
Peace-building at the Local Level: Refugee Return to Prijedor
Roberto Belloni
PART FOUR: BOSNIA TODAY
Transformation in the Political Economy of Bosnia since Dayton
Michael Pugh
Who Guards the Guardians? International Accountability in Bosnia Richard Caplan
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