The Dayton division of Bosnia and other core allocations

Abstract

The paper evaluates the Dayton Peace Agreement division of Bosnia. Based on Census data from 1991 and under plausible assumptions on all territories (pure ethnic and mixed as well), cooperative core allocations are applied to divide the country into its three parts. The highest share, which is received by the Serbs (the nucleolus solution), is 459 square km less than the respective Dayton share. Serbs, however, benefit from the goal programming implementation of that solution, since less of them are forced to leave their homes, compared to the Dayton division In general, the redrawn nucleolus map of Bosnia, is approximately 93% identical to the Dayton Peace Agreement map.