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Dayton was designed to allow the people who profited from war to profit from peace. At that, it was phenomenally successful.
This means that the people whose profit it insures will not change it willingly. For obvious reasons.
Now there is talk of a new revision, developed from outside and imposed from above. This will have the same problems as Dayton.
Why? Bypassing the citizens and creating a structure that lacks internal legitimacy can only have one effect: constructing a clientelist elite.
Bypass the predatory parties and the ethnifying elites instead, you get a structure that builds on the democratic potential of the society.
Otherwise, the internationally generated resolution may be good or bad. It won’t matter.
In practice, it will be exactly as good or bad as the motivations of the people who implement it.
Keep in mind: the reason local elites are more powerful than big powers engaged in intervention is that they stay where they are and know what they want.
