Lessons Learned from the Balkan Conflicts
Ambassador Donald Hays is the principal deputy high representative of the Office of the High Representative (OHR), Bosnia. Hays took up his duties with the OHR in July 2001, six years after it was created to oversee the implementation of civilian aspects of the Dayton Peace Agreement. Previously he was the U.S. representative to the United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform. He has served in the State Department as the director of the Office of Management Policy and Planning and as the executive director of the European Affairs Bureau and has been posted to U.S. embassies in Germany, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Vietnam.
His keynote speech on the mission of the OHR and more broadly on lessons learned—or, as he puts it, “lessons we never seem to learn”—from the wars and peacekeeping process in the Balkans, was part of a two-day conference on the topic that also looks at the application of these lessons in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and elsewhere.
Hays is introduced by Cynthia Simmons, a professor in the Slavic and Eastern languages department and a conference organizer.
Presenter(s): Donald Hays
Date: October 16, 2004
Location: Higgins Hall 300, Boston College
Sponsor(s): Center for Balkan Development; Boston College Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages; Dayton Peace Accords Project at Tufts University
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/hays/
The information on this page is accurate as of October 2004