ABSTRACT
Some analysts divide termination of a conflict into two distinct parts. The first part, of course, consists in stopping the killing. This could include such elements as putting down weapons and separating forces, for example. However, stopping the fighting is a separate operation from making peace, removing the incentive for re-engaging in war, and making the peace selfsupporting. These latter steps involve “permanently stopping the war by changing [the] critical expectation” that the war could resume.1 This chapter assesses Bosnia’s future prospects for peace by examining those structures and functions of the new Bosnian state created by the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, better known as the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA), that, if they worked, would dispel the belief that war in the region could be resumed.2 It also considers the likelihood that Bosnia can be reconstructed into a viable, independent state, the issue most likely to confound the domestic – and international – actors attempting to implement the DPA.
