 In 1995, shortly after the Dayton Agreement which ended the Bosnian War, Kopanja co-founded "Nezavisne Novine", a weekly independent newspaper, in order to "foster improved relationships among Serbs, Muslims and Croats in Bosnia".The magazine was funded in part by the United States Agency for International Development, per a part of the Dayton Agreement which had called for funding for non-nationalist media.Beginning with a circulation of 4,000, the newspaper later became a daily, and its circulation climbed to 18,000 in the next five years.