Kosovo War

The 1990s conflict in Kosovo is one that has been identified as a result of a long running and intractable dispute. The dispute identified is one between Kosovo’s Albanians or Kosovar, and the Serbians. The reasons for the dispute stem from several issues, each can be attributed to increasing the intractability of the conflict. The issues that have been identified stem from ethnic issues, or political. In the Kosovo region the ethnic issues are generally from the vast differences between the Albanians

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

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 states having absolute

– 'most days';). The United States immediately responded to this slaughter by turning the other way, denying that a problem existed until years after the genocide had ceased. In 1999, ethnic cleansing (hostility between ethnic groups) 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

horrors of the atrocities committed against Kosovo such as the targeted attacks on civilians, “ethnic cleansing';, and most certainly mass murder have a greater impact globally than what may appear on the surface. On a humanitarian level, all these situations are marked by the same killing mixture of hope and despair – frightened women, terrified children,

This paper aimed to determine whether or not violence affected in-groups and out-groups. Specifically, the paper was looking at how and if violence affected divisions between in-groups and out-groups. The conductor(s) used the postwar community in Kosovo for the research and experiments. The researcher(s) found that violence does have an affect on in-groups/out-group divisions. The researcher(s) found that violence is shown to increase the division between in-groups and out-groups when the distinctions

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

Kosovars? Kosovo, a country in the Balkans, which claimed independence in 2008 and was embroiled in ethnic violence that resulted in genocide from 1989, now has to face the threat of the growth of Islamic radicalization in one of Europe’s only majority-Muslim countries.(Kosovo Facts) As Kosovo is not a member of the United Nations and not recognized as a country by many countries such as Russia, the country is very isolated from the rest of the world and along with having to rebuild from the war, Kosovo

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

experiences as a Kosovan refugee. Sharon, Lena’s supervisor, has been placed in a difficult position because of the complaints she’s received from her Serbian clients and other caseworkers in relation to a poster in Lena’s office depicting a photograph of Kosovo. Problem Statement Sharon, the protagonist, is faced with the problem of the growing distrust and dislike towards Lena, particularly from other caseworkers and the agency’s Serbian clients. While Sharon has no problem with Lena’s poster and views