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The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina The General Framework Agreement, also known as the Dayton Peace Agreement, Dayton Accords, Paris Protocol or Dayton-Paris Agreement, is the peace agreement reached at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, in the United States, in November 1995, and formally signed in Paris on 14 December 1995. This Agreement put an end to the Bosnian war that had started in April 1992. The political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) created by the Dayton Peace Agreement comprise two ‘entities’ – the Federation of BiH, with mostly Bosniaks and Croats as its ‘constituent peoples’, and the Republika Srpska, with mostly Serbs – plus, since 1999, Brčko District as a self-governing administrative unit under the sovereignty of BiH. Text of Agreement online at www.ohr.int/dpa/default.asp?content_id=379 |