Speakers

• Nedžma Džananović, Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Sarajevo
• Vedran Džihić, Senior Researcher, Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip)
• Sören Keil, Senior Teaching and Research Fellow, University of Passau
• Nikolaos Tzifakis, Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of the Peloponnese

Moderation

• Marika Djolai, Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Political Science & International Relations, University of the Peloponnese

About

The Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA), signed in 1995, brought an end to a conflict that horrified the world and dispelled the notion of a safe and stable Europe. Thirty years on, Bosnia and Herzegovina is still in a state of stable unresolvedness, amidst 30 years of peace which is often interpreted as incomplete and contested. Rather than interpreting state-building and peace outcomes as simply successes or failures, our experts will discuss different interpretations of the nature of peace that emphasises negotiated, multi-layered, and contested dynamics that have shaped Bosnia and Herzegovina’s post-war order, and will highlight competing views of the country’s peace process. The aim of this discussion is not to search for solutions to the BiH crisis, but to offer novel approaches on how we search for answers and how to do it in a collaborative way that allows fusion of views. The discussants are all contributing authors to the main focus of the upcoming SOM issue 6/2025.