Representatives of NATO -aligned nations will gather starting Thursday in the Ohio city where an end to the three-year Bosnian war was brokered three decades ago, unpacking the lessons of the Dayton Peace Accords for navigating global conflicts.
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly, a transatlantic forum of about 300 parliamentarians from the organization’s 32 member nations, arrives in Dayton for their five-day meeting at a time when the Trump administration has cast doubt over whether the U.S. would defend NATO allies in Europe without them committing larger percentages of their budgets to defense spending.
It is the first time since 2003 that the event has been held in the United States.
Organizers are framing the 30th anniversary of the 1995 accords — negotiated at Dayton’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and signed in Paris later that year — as a celebration of peace and the power of diplomacy.
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The Dayton Peace Accords, also known as the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, were brokered in Dayton, Ohio, in 1995. These accords ended the Bosnian War, which was part of the broader Yugoslav Wars. The agreement was signed ceremonially in Paris on December 14, 1995. NATO played a significant role in the implementation and peacekeeping efforts following the Dayton Agreement. . .
The agreement was brokered by US diplomat Richard Holbrooke and involved NATO, which deployed 60,000 peacekeepers to Bosnia.
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