Former deputy director of Transitions and manager of the organization’s projects in the Balkans. Coordinates SEENPM, a network of media organizations in Central and Southeast Europe.
The atrocities committed by the Bosnian-Serb forces in 1995 caused the West to overcome its hesitation and finally intervene in Bosnia. Together with advances by the Croatian Army, NATO’s entry into the war set in motion a fundamentally new development.
The Dayton Agreement put an end to the war in Bosnia and laid the grounds for today’s divided state. But what appeared as the triumph of the liberal order had been preceded by three years of political deadlock, with western policy driven primarily by media coverage of the atrocities.