The Dayton Accords put a stop to ethnic violence among Serbs, Croats and Muslims in the Balkans.
The war reached its peak with the worst massacre in Europe since World War II when the Bosnian Serb Army murdered 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys in what was supposed to be a United Nations safe haven in the town of Srebrenica.
The Srebrenica genocide, which occurred in July of 1995, prompted former President Bill Clinton and NATO to launch a bombing campaign that led to a cease-fire and eventually the Dayton Accords.
There was one U.S. diplomat in particular whose strategic maneuvers brought the peace talks to fruition the late Richard Holbrooke.