Dayton Peace Accords @20 Committee - Dayton
The peace agreement was reached on November 21, 1995 by the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia under the auspices of the US envoy, Richard Holbrooke. The agreement was initialed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and then formally signed in Paris on December 14, 1995. The accords put an end to the war in Bosnia and structured a General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The framework preserved Bosnia as a single-state made up of two parts: the Bosniak-Croat Federation and the Bosnian Serb Republic. Sarajevo remains the undivided capital.