{"id":159439,"date":"2025-05-21T12:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=159439"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:45:30","slug":"wright-state-to-follow-nato-session-with-dayton-peace-accords-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/05\/21\/wright-state-to-follow-nato-session-with-dayton-peace-accords-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State to follow NATO session with Dayton Peace Accords celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_159453\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/05\/21\/wright-state-to-follow-nato-session-with-dayton-peace-accords-celebration\/sarajevo-philharmonic-orchestra__1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159453\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159453\" class=\"size-large wp-image-159453\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2025\/05\/Sarajevo-Philharmonic-Orchestra__1-508x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-159453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wright State will host a panel discussion on \u201cThe Dayton Peace Accords: Reflections after 30 Years\u201d and a concert by the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra in the Creative Arts Center on May 27.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The eyes of the world will be on Dayton with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly\u2019s Spring Session, from May 23-26, in large part to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the Bosnian War.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State University will join in the celebration with an on-campus event that will also look to the future.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, May 27, Wright State will host:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A panel discussion on \u201cThe Dayton Peace Accords: Reflections after 30 Years,\u201d in the Stein Galleries in the Creative Arts Center from 5 to 6:15 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNotes of Unity,\u201d a concert by the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra in Schuster Hall in the Creative Arts Center at 6:30 p.m., followed by a reception at 7:15 p.m., hosted by Wright State President Susan Edwards, Ph.D.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis is an epilogue to the NATO weekend and a prologue to the anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords and the Dayton Peace Prize ceremony,\u201d said Vaughn Shannon, Ph.D., professor of political science and director of Wright State\u2019s graduate program in international and comparative politics.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State, he said, is \u201ccommitted to promoting international relations and peace, and we have these connections to our community, so it\u2019s a natural \u2013 everybody wants to be involved with celebrating Dayton\u2019s role in the peace accords. This is our contribution to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The peace accords, finalized on Nov. 21, 1995, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, ended the war and brought peace to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The international armed conflict, which occurred between 1992 and 1995, claimed more than 200,000 lives and forced 2 million people from their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The accords also gave birth to the Dayton Peace Prize, awarded every five years beginning in 2000. This year\u2019s prize will be awarded in November to R. Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to China.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State\u2019s panel discussion will be moderated by Donna Schlagheck, Ph.D., professor emerita of political science at Wright State, and feature Garald Robinson, who was wing commander at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base during the negotiations; John McCance, who helped organize the agreement signings; Azra Kaurin, a journalist during the war who fled from Sarajevo to Croatia, then moved to Ohio; and Rikard Larma, an Associated Press photographer during the siege of Sarajevo.<\/p>\n<p>The panel discussion is open to the Wright State community and the public. It is first-come, first-served, and space is limited to about 50 people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/r\/WKRXHPB\">Online registration is required to attend<\/a> the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra concert.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Vaughn Shannon at <a href=\"mailto:vaughn.shannon@wright.eduo\">vaughn.shannon@wright.edu<\/a> or Laura Luehrmann at <a href=\"mailto:laura.luehrmann@wright.edu\">laura.luehrmann@wright.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wright State will host a panel discussion on \u201cThe Dayton Peace Accords: Reflections after 30 Years\u201d and a concert by the Sarajevo Philharmonic Orchestra on May 27. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2025\/05\/21\/wright-state-to-follow-nato-session-with-dayton-peace-accords-celebration\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":159453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,725,747,715,4855],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-sciences-and-international-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159458,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159439\/revisions\/159458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}