Implementation Force, the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Bosnia created under the Dayton accords. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

International Police Task Force, established by the United Nations, charged with reporting human rights violations to the war crimes tribunal. Alija Izetbegovic

Capital of the Bosnian Serb Republic, former ski resort. Partisans

The capital of Bosnia. A center of arts and education under relentless siege by Bosnian Serb forces throughout the war, until the advent of the Dayton accords. Before the war, Serbian, Muslim, Jewish and Croatian Bosnians lived together in Sarajevo in peace. It was the site of the 1984 Winter Olympics and the scene of the assassination of Archduke [..]

Originally famed for World War I military valor, Tito was the heroic leader of Partisans against totalitarian Ustashi, Chetniks and Axis powers in Yugoslavia during World War II. He was the chief architect and leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, delicately balancing the region's national rivalries until his death in 1980. F [..]

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the lead U.N. agency responsible for humanitarian assistance in Bosnia and the region. It has prime responsibility for logistics and transport, food monitoring, domestic needs, shelter, community services, health, emergency transition activities in agriculture and income-generation, protection and [..]

"The Fall of Yugoslavia" by Misha Glenny; "Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Tradition Betrayed," by Robert J. Donia and John V.A. Fine Jr.; The New York Times; Cable News Network.