On Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at 8:00 p.m., the 23rd lecture from the “Our Heritage” series will be held at the Sarajevo 1878–1918 Museum.
Dr. Edin Omerčić, Research Associate at the Institute of History, will speak on the topic “Reintegration of Sarajevo.”
The lecture aims to present the dramatic events in Sarajevo following the conclusion of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina on November 21, 1995. It is based on archival materials from the ICTY, declassified CIA documents from the Clinton administration, memoirs of direct participants, relevant literature, and press reports.
The agreement, signed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, led to the end of the war, the lifting of the blockade, the end of the siege of Sarajevo, and brought a form of peace to the population of the devastated city. The lecture will focus on the consequences and implementation of the Dayton decisions that enabled the reintegration of occupied parts of Sarajevo and its municipalities into a unified city under the authority of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Edin Omerčić was born in 1981 in Pula. He completed his primary and secondary education in Rovinj. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo in 2007. Since 2008, he has been working at the Institute of History in Sarajevo. He obtained his master’s degree in 2013 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. He is a member of the Association for Modern History in Sarajevo (UMHIS) and serves as secretary of the journal Historia Moderna Bosna & Herzegovina. From 2017 to 2019, he was a member of the editorial board of the journal Behar, as well as the bimonthly journal of the Bosniak Cultural Society “Preporod” in Zagreb. He earned his PhD from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, in 2023.
