Open AccessEarly Warning and "Ethnie" Confliet Management: Rwanda and Kosovo
Author(s) -
Howard Adelman
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
refuge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1920-7336
pISSN - 0229-5113
DOI - 10.25071/1920-7336.22014
Subject(s) - ethnic group , action (physics) , political science , crisis management , ethnic composition , international community , sociology , geography , development economics , law , politics , physics , quantum mechanics , economics
The author examines the way in whichpast conflicts shape the responses to currentcrises. In examining the facts of theRwandan case compared with what isknown of the Kosovo crisis, he identifiesa number of similarities shared in bothcontexts. However, these first order similaritiesprove to be outweighed by thedifferences in the capacity for controlpossessed by Milosevic, the ethnic anddemographic composition of the communitiesin the conflict, and military capabilities.Importantly, levels of publicsupport for action were higher in the caseof Kosovo, as were the steps taken by theinternational community in the leadupto the bombing.