International peace plans rewarded ethnic cleansing by granting Serbs the cleansed land

Evidence

In 1994, negotiators for the “Contact Group” (Britain, France, the U.S., Russia, and Germany) suggested a peace plan that would give to the 32 percent of Bosnians who were Serb 49 percent of the land, including the areas on which they had carried out the most systematic “ethnic cleansing”; the Serbian Orthodox Church attacked the peace plan as unfair, to Serbs. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 234

Categorization

• XREF: The brutal irony that a ‘peace plan’ legitimized and rewarded the results of ethnic cleansing, and the Church attacked it as too lenient on Muslims, connects to how peace processes can entrench wartime gains — links to ‘On Sacrifice’ on how ritualized settlements stabilize stratified orders.
• DEEPTHINKING: The negotiators’ arithmetic — 32 percent of the population gets 49 percent of the land, precisely the purged territory — is a dense case of peacemaking rewarding atrocity, worth returning to as a model of how international settlements institutionalize ethnic cleansing.

Related

• Peace-plan maps were used to justify ethnic cleansing (similarity 0.80)