Dayton Agreement shows how diplomacy can bring peace

The 30th anniversary of one of the most consequential diplomatic achievements since the end of the Cold War was marked this month. On Nov. 21, 1995, at a secluded US airbase outside Dayton, Ohio, three leaders — Alija Izetbegovic, president of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Franjo Tudjman, president of Croatia; and Slobodan Milosevic, president of Serbia — initialed an agreement that brought an end to the bloody three-year Bosnian War. Bosnia and Herzegovina emerged from the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, which began a brutal interreligious and interethnic sectarian war in 1992.

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