Twenty years ago, after weeks of intense talks, exhausted diplomats reached an agreement to put an end to the Bosnian War, which had lasted more than three years and claimed 100,000 lives. The Dayton Accords created a new state, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a federation of two entities - one regrouping Croats and Bosniaks and the other regrouping Serbs, the Republika Srpska.

Today, Bosnia and Herzegovina lives in relative peace, although it can hardly be called united. The two entities that compose it seem entrenched behind ethnic, religious and community faultlines. It suffers from mass unemployment, a jaded youth and a widespread feeling that corruption and narrow-minded political agendas are the country's driving forces.
A programme prepared by Patrick Lovett and Elom Marcel Toble

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