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SARAJEVO, November 4 (FENA) - The Genocide Studies Program at Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University will organize a two-day online conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement.
Participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the United States and Australia will discuss the legacy of the agreement at the conference.
Hariz Halilović, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research Center at RMIT University of Melbourne, and Valentin Inzko, High Representative in BiH, were announced as keynote speakers.
Journalist and author Janine di Giovanni and Velma Šarić from the Post-Conflict Research Center in Sarajevo will also participate at the conference, while Southern Connecticut State University professor David Pettigrew will speak on "The Tragic Legacy of Dayton: 1995-2020".
In a statement for FENA, he reminded that a peace agreement was signed on November 21, 1995, which ended the almost four-year-long aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, during which more than 100,000 people were killed.
“But the agreement reached then, better known as the Dayton Peace Agreement, was quickly recognized as a document with numerous shortcomings. Today, 25 years later, the price of peace paid by the Dayton Peace Accords has become much clearer,” Pettigrew added.
Speakers at this conference, which will be held online on November 5 and 6, will be scholars, researchers, journalists and diplomats from around the world who, as Pettigrew says, will look at all aspects of the Dayton Peace Accords a quarter of a century later.
The intention, Pettigrew points out, is to point out the fact that genocide continues to be denied, that the glorification of war criminals is still present and that the issue of secession is constantly being withdrawn, all of which could once again destabilize the region.
The first panel of the conference is dedicated to the reflections of the Dayton Peace Agreement on Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past 25 years, while the second panel dedicated to transitional justice will discuss silence, denial and impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence in BiH and genocide denial policy in BiH.
On the second day of the conference, speakers will point out the need for reparations for victims of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the need to achieve justice and reconciliation, while the last panel concluding the two-day conference will be dedicated to the culture of remembrance.
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