ContractDayton Peace Agreement • October 1st, 2001
Contract Type FiledOctober 1st, 2001To end the war, the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA), more formally known as the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (GFAP), was initialed in Dayton, Ohio on 21 November 1995 and signed in Paris on 14 December 1996 (henceforth, Dayton or the Dayton Accords). The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) remained an intact single country, but one with an extremely weak central government and divided into two entities - the Republika Srpska (RS - an almost entirely Serb area) and the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the Federation) populated by areas with concentrations of Bosniacs, other areas dominated by Croats and a few mixed areas. in November of 1995.