ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the decisions made by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members in Bosnia in response to the challenges of consent, beginning with a brief history of the operation until the summer of 1993. It examines the decision of the Council to authorize the use of air strikes in order to assist United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR). Boutros-Ghali consequently advised the UNSC members against using air strikes to open Tuzla airport or to force the troop rotation in Srebrenica. The chapter also explores the issue of the deployment of the Rapid Reaction Force in the spring of 1995 to augment the defensive capabilities of UNPROFOR on the ground. It examines the decision of the UNSC members to adopt a more coercive policy towards the Bosnian Serbs during Operation Deliberate Force, which relied on the use of force to bring the parties to the negotiating table and led to the Dayton Agreement in November 1995.
