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...suspect that Jeffrey Vanke's problem is that he is not yet ready for serious dialogue. By this we mean dialogue suited for a post-Holocaust world, a post-Bosnia world, a post-Rwanda world. A dialogue, that is, which is morally shaped and tapered by full recognition of modern human beings' responsibility for the vicious anti-human deeds done in the past and the name of our societies and nation-states. Jeffrey Vanke offers not a clue that he understands what serious dialogue must be about in our era. --Lee A. Daniels, Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute; Martin Kilson...
...conventional wisdom about Bosnia runs like this: despite the overwhelming success in implementing the military provisions of the Dayton accords, those agreements will not lead to a single, unified Bosnia; rather they have merely deferred the resumption of war or, at best, provided an interim stage on the road to partition. The basis for this view is the uncertain pace of implementing the civilian aspects of Dayton--economic reconstruction, return of refugees, prosecution of war criminals, preparation for elections. How valid is the new pessimism...
...short answer is that, with eight months remaining in the year that NATO plans to stay in Bosnia, enough time remains to put the civilian side of Dayton into effect--provided those in charge are themselves fully committed to it. The Clinton Administration remains dedicated to this goal. But there are disturbing signs of backsliding from others, including some representatives of nations that signed the Dayton accords...
Roughly speaking, Bosnia confronts three possible fates after the NATO troops withdraw...
...take a stand to eliminate a weapon that kills more than 20,000 people, mostly civilian, every year, often long after a military confrontation has ended. Thousands of people continue to be maimed, for example, by mines put in place long ago in Cambodia, Afghanistan, and more recently in Bosnia and Croatia. "This is a failure of U.S. leadership but it will not stop the international effort to ban these weapons," said Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who had lobbied Clinton on behalf of the ban. An international ban on land mines was rejected at a conference in Geneva earlier this...