DAYTON, OH, MAY 24, 2025 – New Lines Institute’s Western Balkans Center hosts a dynamic panel discussion, “Next Steps After Dayton? Getting to Constitutional Reform in BiH,” at The Dayton Dialogue public forum, as part of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Spring Session in Dayton, Ohio, May 22-25, 2025. The event explores key insights from the recently released report “Dayton Plus: A Policymaker’s Guide to Constitutional Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” outlining an actionable policy agenda for constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) that could accelerate the country’s NATO and EU accession prospects.
The panel, moderated by New Lines Institute Senior Director Dr. Azeem Ibrahim, features Dr. Jasmin Mujanović, a senior non-resident fellow at the Western Balkans Center and the author of the Dayton Plus report; Michael Murphy, former U.S. ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina; Ensar Eminović, minister counselor at the BiH Embassy in Washington, D.C.; and Dr. Miomir Žužul, senior international policy adviser at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and a former minister of foreign affairs for the Republic of Croatia. The discussion charts a path forward for democratic reform in BiH.
“The Dayton Peace Agreement has an important place in the history of U.S. diplomacy and Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Murphy notes. “Even as we celebrate the resulting 30 years of peace, we are reminded that the United States’ interest in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s territorial integrity, sovereignty, and multiethnic character is enduring and makes America safer, stronger, and more prosperous. As Bosnia and Herzegovina confronts the most serious threat to its territorial integrity since 1992, it is fitting that the NATO Parliamentary Assembly is focused on how the international community can help defend Dayton and ensure Bosnia and Herzegovina takes its rightful place in Euro-Atlantic institutions.”
