ABSTRACT
And yet, the normalisation of the ethno-national is not complete. People continue to elude the specified ethno-national categories. The GFA and the Dayton Accords made some allowances for this by inventing a special category. In both cases the word used to designate this special category is the same: ‘other’ and ‘Others’, respectively. The GFA states, ‘At their first meeting, members of the Assembly will register a designation of identity – nationalist, unionist or other – for the purposes of measuring cross-community support in Assembly votes under the relevant provisions above’ (Strand one ‘Democratic Institutions in Northern Ireland’). As an annex to one of its 11 articles, the Dayton Accords states:
Recalling the Basic Principles agreed in Geneva on September 8, 1995, and in New York on September 26, 1995, Bosniacs, Croats, and Serbs, as constituent peoples (along with Others), and citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina hereby determine that the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina is as follows . . . .
