Bosnia Peace Operation

Bosnia Peace Operation

Author: Lenora R. Fuller

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1998-04

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 0788147528

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While international in scope, the Bosnian peace operation has received important political, military, & financial support from the U.S. This report reviews the implementation of the peace operation, specifically U.S. costs & commitments, & the progress made in achieving its key objectives -- to create conditions that allow Bosnia's leaders to provide security for the people; create a unified, democratic Bosnia that respects the rule of law & internationally recognized human rights, including cooperating with the war crimes tribunal; rebuild the economy; & ensure the right of people to return to their prewar homes.


Bosnia

Bosnia

Author: United States. General Accounting Office

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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Bosnia Remade

Bosnia Remade

Author: Gerard Toal

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-02-16

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 0190207906

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Bosnia Remade is an authoritative account of ethnic cleansing and its partial undoing from the onset of the 1990s Bosnian wars up through the present. Gerard Toal and Carl Dahlman combine a bird's-eye view of the entire war from onset to aftermath with a micro-level account of three towns that underwent ethnic cleansing and--later--the return of refugees. There have been two major attempts to remake the ethnic geography of Bosnia since 1991. In the first instance, ascendant ethno-nationalist forces tried to eradicate the mixed ethnic geographies of Bosnia's towns, villages and communities. These forces devastated tens of thousands of homes and lives, but they failed to destroy Bosnia-Herzegovina as a polity. In the second attempt, which followed the war, the international community, in league with Bosnian officials, endeavored to reverse the demographic and other consequences of this ethnic cleansing. While progress has been uneven, this latter effort has transformed the ethnic demography of Bosnia and moved the nation beyond its recent segregationist past. By showing how ethnic cleansing was challenged, Bosnia Remade offers more than just a comprehensive narrative of Europe's worst political crisis of the past two decades. It also offers lessons for addressing an enduring global problem.


Peacebuilding and International Administration

Peacebuilding and International Administration

Author: Niels van Willigen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1134117256

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This book provides a detailed historical and political analysis of the role and effectiveness of international administration in statebuilding. It analyses how the international administrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo have attempted to create sustainable political institutions and to what extent they have been successful in doing so. In the 1990s, large and ambitious international administrations were established to administer territories that had been left without an effective government in the wake of violent conflict. International administrations, to a greater extent than peacebuilding operations, exercise extensive authority and take over the governance of a country. Though they combine the state and nationbuilding programs of regular peacebuilding, with the political power normally reserved for sovereign states, there remains a question of how effective or successful international administrations are, and whether they lead to a sustainable peace. The author argues that despite years of international administration, the political institutions remain weak and rely heavily on international support, dominated by an ethnic nationalist ideology with little domestic support. Peacebuilding and International Administration will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, security studies, conflict resolution and international organizations.