THE
KOSOVO SOLUTION SERIES
By Aleksandar
Mitic & Jan Oberg
On March 24, 2005 it was six years since NATO bombs
to create peace began to fall.
What peace is there today? What will there be
tomorrow?
PressInfo #
209, March
16, 2005
Kosovo Solution Series # 1
Why
the solution in Kosovo matters to the
world
Executive summary of a series of PressInfos on Kosovo.
Twelve reasons why it is important and a mini-analysis of
the role of the international community in
conflict-management. With a few words about the approach
TFF has taken since it got on the ground in Kosovo as
early as in 1992.PressInfo #
210, March
18, 2005
Kosovo Solution Series # 2
The
media – strategic
considerations
An unbalance between Belgrade and the Kosovo Albanians in
the means put into PR advocacy campaigns and lobbying
efforts has led to a one-sided media war in the late
1980s and early 1990s. The Serbs still lack a media
strategy and, at least until very recently, a policy and
strategy for a solution to the Kosovo
conflict.
Morning over
Prishtina, Kosovo © Oberg 2000
PressInfo #
211, March
21, 2005
Kosovo Solution Series # 3
The
main preconditions for a sustainable solution to the
Kosovo conflict
To arrive at a sustainable solution in the concrete case
of Kosovo, a minimum of professional principles and
considerations is necessary. Here we offer
eleven.PressInfo #
212, March
23, 2005
Kosovo Solution Series # 4
The
situation as seen from
Serbia
Serbia is struggling to meet Western requirements. It may
be that Kosovo will become independent, but where is the
international community’s logic in that given other
political processes in the Balkans?PressInfo #
213, March
29, 2005
Kosovo Solution Series # 5
The
arguments for quick and total independence are not
credible
Whom and what would an independent Kosova reward? There
is a larger framework and if you can’t work with those
next door, can you work with the rest of Europe? The Serb
side, not the Albanian, has shown flexibility. The issue
of status should be approached with much more creativity
and credibility.PressInfo #
214, March
30, 2005
Kosovo Solution Series # 6
What
must be Belgrade’s minimum conditions and its media
strategy
It’s now time for the international community to become
fair players and pay serious attention to Serb viewpoints
and long-term interests. Without it there will be no
regional stability. Likewise Belgrade must develop a
policy and a media strategy so it will get a fair
hearing. This PressInfo offers the basic elements.
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these in the futurePressInfo #
215, March
31, 2005
Kosovo Solution Series # 7
Nations
and states, sovereignty and
self-determination
Offers some clarification of the main concepts and look
into what the two basic legal documents actually say. It
also points out that the international community has a)
not lived up to its own obligations, b) have little
understanding of peacemaking and c) have given the
Albanians reasons to believe in a soon-to-come
independence which it can hardly deliver.PressInfo #
216, March
31, 2005
Kosovo Solution Series # 8
Positive
scenarios. Turn to the future, look at the broader
perspectives
Imagine the world in 2025. Who would believe that Serbs
and Albanians had fought a war against each other? To
achieve real peace, everything depends on a) changing the
perspective from the past to the future, b) reducing fear
and c) provide for gebuine socio-economic development.
PressInfo #
217, April
7, 2005
Kosovo Solution Series # 9
Many
models for a future
Kosovo
Probably the most comprehensive catalogue of peaceful
possibilities for Kosovo ever developed. Offers four
types approaches to peacemaking and warns against the
international community cutting corners to get out of its
dilemma.PressInfo #
218, April
7, 2005
Kosovo Solution Series # 10
Summary
– From “only one solution” towards democracy and
peace
Offers the main arguments of the 9 preceding articles in
about 800 words.Happy
browsing
There are also
these:PressInfo #
208, March
10, 2005
The
UN in Kosovo praises potential war criminal –
why?
Søren Jessen-Petersen’s cosy chat about his
potential war crimes friend could be what he has been
told by some participant in the greater scheme of things
to say – and it is not Kofi Annan. This could also be yet
another evidence of the shabbiness that has come to
define the international community’s conflict-management
policies in Kosovo. See why in this analysis. By Jan
Oberg.TFF Feature Collection,
March 9, 2005 – Updated from time to time
The
Accumulating Crisis in
Kosovo
A new crisis in Kosovo is in-the-making. The main reasons
are: the situation in the province, the lack of
peacebuilding success, the irresponsible talk of
independence by Western pro-Albanian lobby groups such as
the Crisis Group and the indictment of Kosovo’s prime
minister as well as the lack of a pro-active strategy in
Belgrade.
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