Open AccessA concrete proposal to upgrade the Dayton Peace Agreement
Author(s) -
Mirsad Kriještorac
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
illuminatio
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-133X
pISSN - 2712-1321
DOI - 10.52510/sia.v1i2.16
Subject(s) - bosnian , pluralism (philosophy) , political science , politics , democracy , state building , law , agreement , internationalism (politics) , law and economics , political economy , public administration , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , linguistics
Most observers of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s political situation have focused only on the problems that the Dayton Peace Accord created for the normal functioning of this Southeastern European state, but a workable solution is yet to be proposed.
The Accord achieved peace by blocking any ability for effective governing and by diminishing the Bosnian state capacity through an excessive dispersion of power with an uncommon constitutional focus on internationalism, and an erroneous type of pluralism that undermines the normal functioning of a democracy. The solution for these problems is to be found by adjusting the procedural selection of the United Nations High Representative, who is the primary actor directly responsible for the implementation of the Accord, both in terms of the letter and intent of the document, and this paper explains how that change can be made and what problems it will resolve.