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Roundup

The Balkans, 10 Years After the Dayton Accords [30min]

Ten years ago, an agreement signed in a hotel ballroom in Dayton, Ohio, signaled the end to bloody civil war in Bosnia. Today, Muslims, Croats and Serbs still struggle to move from ceasefire to peace. Guests: Laura Silber covered the Balkan Wars for The Financial Times, 1990-1997, and is co-author of Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation; Carl Bildt is European Union co-chairman of the Dayton Peace Conference, former Prime Minsiter of Sweden, and first international High Represenative in Bosnia, 1996 to 1997.