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Twenty years on from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in November 1995, the consequences of conflict - including the long-term effects of displacement - are still being felt in the Western Balkans. FMR 50 examines the case of people who were displaced from and within Bosnia and Herzegovina as a result of the 1992-95 war, and reflects on the lessons that may be drawn from the successes and failures of the Agreement. FMR 50 includes 20 articles on 'Dayton +20', plus five 'general' articles. - See more at: http://www.fmreview.org/dayton20#sthash.cmkJOIYW.dpuf
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| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 26 | FMR 50 - From the Editors | An introductory note on FMR 50, 'Dayton + 20: twenty years on from the Dayton Agreement in the Balkans', from the Editors. | Marion Couldrey, Maurice Herson | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 25 | FMR 50 - Foreword: Addressing the legacy of violence | The aim of creating ethnically homogeneous statelets was curbed at Dayton but the dominance of ethnic politics was not. | Valentin Inzko | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 24 | FMR 50 - Annex 7: why are we still discussing it? | Annex 7 to the Dayton Peace Agreement was designed to address the displacement of 2.2 million people during the Bosnian war of 1992-95. Its job is not yet done. | María del Pilar Valledor Álvarez | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 23 | FMR 50 - Political and social consequences of continuing displacement in Bosnia and Herzegovina | Twenty years after Dayton, failures to facilitate effective refugee and IDP return have had a social and political impact at both community and state level. | Lana Pašić | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 22 | FMR 50 - Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 years on from Dayton | The coming two-and-a-half years represent what is possibly the last window of opportunity to accomplish what the Dayton Peace Agreement’s Annex 7 set out to achieve. | Andrew Mayne | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 21 | FMR 50 - Resolving a protracted refugee situation through a regional process | Despite its shortcomings, the Regional Process in the Western Balkans offers a number of lessons for resolving protracted refugee situations. | Olga Mitrovic | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 20 | FMR 50 - Voices in displacement | “These people are as if lost in time and space.” Still displaced after 20 years, residents of collective centres in Bosnia and Herzegovina share their frustration. They need to be listened to. | Claudia Meyerhoefer | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 19 | FMR 50 - Property rights and reconstruction in the Bosnian return process | Sidelining a rights-based approach in the area of property restitution and reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina resulted in an unequal impact on rural versus urban displaced populations. | Inmaculada Serrano | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 18 | FMR 50 - Resolving protracted displacement through social housing | A social housing methodology recently introduced in Bosnia and Herzegovina illustrates the need for certain key components in any strategy to address the shelter and livelihoods needs of vulnerable citizens. | Marc D’Silva, Sanela Imamovic | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 17 | FMR 50 - Asking the right questions in research on psychosocial well-being | New research is attempting to address the lack of empirical grounding for much of the psychosocial programming in post-war trauma in the Western Balkans. | Selma Porobic | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 16 | FMR 50 - Wartime division in peacetime schools | An ethnically divided educational system in Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to limit the sustainable return of those displaced by the war, and to hamper reconciliation and the reconstruction of society. | Valery Perry | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 15 | FMR 50 - Their last name is ‘refugee’: return and local activism | Sustainable refugee return can only take place in Bosnia and Herzegovina when ordinary people and human rights activists are included as full participants in the recovery process. | Peter Lippman | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 14 | FMR 50 - Human rights shortcomings of the Dayton Peace Agreement | When a peace agreement guarantees the rights of certain groups but not all, limitations to the enjoyment of human rights are inevitable. | LIsbeth Pilegaard, Jasminka Dzumhur | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 13 | FMR 50 - If women are left out of peace talks | The exclusion of women from the process of making peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina has diminished the prospects for sustainable peace. When will we learn that no peace can be sustainable and just without the active and meaningful participation of women? | Gorana Mlinarević, Nela Porobić Isaković, Madeleine Rees | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 12 | FMR 50 - Interpretations of Annex 7: assessing the impact on non-returnees in the UK | Emphasising the crucial role of refugee returns to the future of Bosnia and Herzegovina risks minimising the agency of those who choose not to exercise their rights under Annex 7. | Gayle Munro | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 11 | FMR 50 - The role of remote voting in encouraging return | Once there is a genuine possibility of going home, what influences a forced migrant’s decision to return to a pre-conflict residence, often in the face of very difficult conditions? What role can remote voting play? | Djordje Stefanovic, Neophytos Loizides | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 10 | FMR 50 - Home after Dayton: IDPs in Sarajevo | The experiences of displaced people in Sarajevo show that living in a place that people perceive to be safe and to provide opportunities can be more desirable than returning to one’s place of origin. Participatory urban projects can help foster community. | Gruia Badescu | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 9 | FMR 50 - The compound effects of conflict and disaster displacement in Bosnia and Herzegovina | Some IDPs living in protracted displacement in Bosnia and Herzegovina, such as many Roma IDPs, were especially vulnerable to the effects of the May 2014 flooding and landslides. | Wesli H Turner | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 8 | FMR 50 - Prijedor: re-imagining the future | Public memorialisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina today is an act of remembering not just those who died in the conflict but also the multi-ethnic reality of earlier times. Articulation of this, however, is being obstructed in cities like Prijedor. | Damir Mitrić, Sudbin Musić | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 7 | FMR 50 - Mass evacuations: learning from the past | Twenty years after the evacuations from the Bosnian ‘safe areas’, humanitarians continue to struggle with dilemmas around humanitarian evacuations. | Caelin Briggs | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 6 | FMR 50 - Bosnia revisited: a retrospective on the legacy of the conflict | It is instructive to review the legacy the conflict in Bosnia and the post-war settlement in order to appreciate how this conflict set the stage for major institutional developments in the field of humanitarian protection. | Brad K Blitz | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 5 | FMR 50 General - Inconsistency in asylum appeal adjudication | New research findings indicate that factors such as the gender of the judge and of the appellant, and where the appellant lives, are influencing asylum appeal adjudication. | Nick Gill, Rebecca Rotter, Andrew Burridge, Melanie Griffiths | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 4 | FMR 50 General - Sheltering displaced persons from sexual and gender-based violence | Providing a variety of safe shelter types, each with its own unique strengths and limitations, within a single area could help meet the diverse and changing needs of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. | Julie Freccero | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 3 | FMR 50 General - Changing how we measure success in resettlement | Refugees should be treated not as poor, traumatised foreigners but as strong and capable people who can be resources in their countries of resettlement. | Justin S Lee, Suzie S Weng, Sarah Ivory | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 2 | FMR 50 General - Young Afghans facing return | A project in the UK aiming to prepare young men for return to Afghanistan through an assisted voluntary return programme was unsuccessful. A different, longer-term approach might have been more appropriate and more effective. | Kim Robinson, Lucy Williams | 01 Sep 2015 | |
| 1 | FMR 50 General - A fragmented landscape of protection | Changing concepts of protection and a growing diversity in the practice of protection and in the range of humanitarian and other actors doing protection work have led to a fragmentation of effective protection for forced migrants. | Roger Zetter | 01 Sep 2015 |