Kosovo crisis

the first time, NATO launched an armed intervention outside its borders in order to avert a humanitarian crisis (Solana 1999: 114). The bombing campaign was intended to stop Belgrade’s repression of Kosovo’s Albanian population and to oblige the Milosevic regime to accept NATO’s demands regarding the future political status of Kosovo (Wippman 2001: 129). NATO’s decision to intervene in Kosovo without the authorization of the Security Council raised doubts in the international arena among human rights

Kosovo: How the Kosovar territory can get developing economically and culturally through its identity balanced between the ethnic strife and conflicts of interest between the Serbs, Albanians and the international community? Richmond University - London Romuald Maronese Dissertation Literature review A such unexpected and international violent struggle burst out between Serbs and Albanians in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia over the southern Serbian province of Kosovo1. This terrible issue

(R2P) has attracted significant mention in political discourse and academia since the end of the cold war – not least with the surfacing of state-sponsored violence during the ‘Arab Spring’. This essay, with the help of relevant examples – such as Kosovo, Darfur, Libya and Syria – will aim to debate the notion that R2P will only be utilised when it is in the interests of major powers. The Peace of Westphalia (1648) – which ended the Thirty Years’ War by instituting a political era made up of sovereign

broke out in Kosovo in a less severe form. This time, instead of being killed, the Kosovars were driven out of their homes and neighborhoods. This time, United

Can Kosovo ever be a strong enough country to stand on its own is a question that we have to ask! Will they ever become a place that will be able to grow to a power nation? With their enemies next door to them; will they be able to stand and fight for their country? Do they have enough resources to help them just to get started on a road back to be a country that the people will be proud of? With the US and all their allies helping them; what state will we be in financially with all the other debt

Kosovo Kosovo is a southern province of Serbia, the core of the former Yugoslavia. Slobodan Milosevic is currently president of Yugoslavia. He has been president in Serbia since 1989. In 1989, President Slobodan Milosevic stripped Kosovo of its autonomous status and declared the Albanian language unofficial. Yugoslavia came on the edge of economical collapse under his role. The crisis and war he has started with Kosovo is his third war. Last year violence broke out between Serbian police

way to stop ‘any further human catastrophe’(Cohn 2002:80) in Kosovo due to the tensions between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the Yugoslav Military. There was a fear that it would result in the ethnic cleansing of many Kosovar Albanians under Milosevic’s regime. As a result of the war between the two armies, it had left approximately 1500 Kosovar Albanians dead and over 300,000 had left their homes to hide in the mountains of Kosovo due to the fear of being killed. (Roberts 1999:112). The huge

phase of Yugoslavian disintegration can be attributed to the conditions of the people living in Kosovo, an autonomous province of Yugoslavia. In 1981, the socioeconomic conditions in Kosovo were far worse than those in the other republics of Yugoslavia. Poverty was rampant and unemployment was around twenty percent as compared to about two percent in Slovenia that same year. The standard of living in Kosovo was deplorable and whatever aid was given to the province by the federal government was mismanaged

Kosovo is located in southern Serbia. There, due to the immigration of many Albanians into Serbia, many conflicts have risen. Serbia reclaimed the territory of what they call modern day Kosovo, however, hatred still remains. The Albanians believe Kosovo has been their land, yet, Serbians have proclaimed they have been there for 500 years. In response, the Albanians revolt and are using terrorist-like attacks on the Serbians; such as houses being destroyed, mass killings, poisoning of the livestock

Genocide Throughout History Throughout the history of mankind, horrific acts of genocide have been committed. The Crusades, the Native American being murdered by the Europeans, the Forced Famine in the Ukraine and the Killing Fields of Cambodia are all examples of genocide (Altman,55). The word genocide comes from the Greek phrase genos meaning race or tribe and Latin root cide meaning to kill (Altman,13). Genocide can be defined as acts committed with intent to destroy, in