What Is Alan Taylor's 20 Years After The Bosnian War?

The Resolution and the Dayton Peace Agreement (November 21, 1995)

Accordingly, Alan Taylor in his article “20 years since the Bosnian War” portrayed that the world has failed to prevent such atrocities that occurred in Bosnia during the civil war and referred it as “ethnic cleansing” rather than “genocide”. International power as well as the United- Nations accelerated their move in order to ensure that this crisis not transform into a broader European conflict, especially one that could threaten the peace or undermine the transition of former communist states to peaceful democracies. Initially, the United States until the 1995 refused to take part of the crisis that ravaged the country, and some intellectuals demonstrated that the reason

By the end of the war, roughly 100.000 people had died. It was in this context that November 1995; the Dayton Accords were signed in Dayton, Ohio, officially ending the war in Bosnia. This peace agreement established two semi-autonomous entities within Bosnia-Herzegovina: the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, inhabited primarily by Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats, and the Republic Srpska (which includes Srebrenica), dominated by Serbs, both with their own political structures, economies, and educational systems, though connected through a central government. Refugees were guaranteed the right to return to their pre-war homes, but only a small number of Bosniaks opted to go back to Srebrenica, which had been re-inhabited by Bosnian Serbs who had also been internally displaced by the war. An influx of international assistance came after the fighting, including reconstruction efforts by non-governmental organizations, UN agencies, and foreign governments and militaries and over $14 billion in aid. In all honesty, the Dayton Accords were successful in stopping the violence and allowing the region to create some form of normality, but it has turned out to be a somewhat of band-aid solution

Most of the journalists and writers that focused their literature on this issue demonstrated that it is a misleading to associate this burden on one factor because there was an interrelated such as ethnic, non-ethnic motivation but also the interference of the neighboring countries (namely Serbia and Croatia). Thus, it is the only way to give a complete picture of what has occurred in B-H. More importantly, once events have occurred there is nothing that can be done to change them. The dissolution of Yugoslavia was not immediate, just as the war which spread to Bosnia did not begin overnight. The progression towards war was a gradual one, and therefore it would be wrong to blame one or two persons (such as Milosevic or Tudjman). The way that the UN, NATO, and the rest of the international community have managed the war was far from the reality and did not fit the war. During a time that the Cold War has just ended, the only superpower, the United States, and specifically the Bush and then Clinton administrations, became complicit to the UN’s inaction by not reasoning harder with those in charge in the UN, or more simply, not being interested enough to really care what was happening in former Yugoslavia. Unilateral action would never have worked, and the U.S. and other countries have seen what can happen when they choose to take the burden entirely on