World leaders clap as, from left, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Croat President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic sign the Dayton Peace Agreement. Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images November 19, 2025 The Dayton Peace Accords at 30: An ugly peace that has prevented a return to war over Bosnia Gerard Toal, Virginia Tech and Adis Maksić, International Burch University More than 100,000 people were killed in the Bosnian war. But the peace that ended it in 1995 sowed the seeds for ethnonationalism.
