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Forestalling War in Kosovo: Opportunities Missed
Author(s) -
Satterwhite James
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0130.00246
Subject(s) - serbian , resistance (ecology) , spanish civil war , political science , period (music) , criminology , political economy , law , sociology , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , biology , physics , acoustics
From the end of the 1980s until the late 1990s the main form of response on the part of the Kosovar Albanians to the Serbian repression initiated by Miloševíc was a campaign of nonviolent resistance. This campaign ultimately gave way to a more violent form of resistance when the Albanians became disillusioned by its lack of success, which in turn provoked a more violent Serbian response. This article assesses whether concrete initiatives by international organizations in the period from 1989 to 1999 could have helped support the nonviolent resistance to Serb repression and concludes that there were many ways in which more international support for this strategy could have helped avert the war in 1999 by strengthening nonviolent options.