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Reflections on the Bosnian War, 30 Years Later

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: December 4, 2025, 19:00 – 21:00

On 14 December 1995 the presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia signed the Dayton Peace Agreement in Paris. This ended the most terrible war in Europe since 1945, which claimed 100,000 lives in a country of three million. How could something like this happen in Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain? Could Europe have reacted more quickly? Would peace have been achieved without the Americans? And how did Václav Havel try to end the fighting in the Balkans? The guests of Matyáš Zrnka, editor-in-chief of aktualne.cz and expert on the Balkans, will be: Michael Žantovský, former advisor to Václav Havel and Czech ambassador to the US, and Filip Tesař from the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Pardubice, who was in Bosnia during the war.

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