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Dr. Georg Schoefbaenker’s collection http://www.nato.int/ Homepage of NATO http://www.eucom.mil/operations/af/index.htm US-Webinfos zur NATO – “Operation Allied Force” http://www.eucom.mil/europe/serbia_and_montenegro/kosovo/index.htm Web-Infos of the US-European Command http://www.afsouth.nato.int/ Website of NATO Command Allied Forces Southern Europe http://www.gov.yu/facts/facts.html Homepage of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia http://www.b92.net/ Homepage of the independent radio-station B92 in Belgrad (closed) http://www.alb-net.com/index.htm Website of the albanian Kosovo Crisis Center http://www.kosova.de/ Web-Newsservice für die Kosovo-Albaner (german language) http://www.kosova-info-line.de/ Web-Dienst der Kosova-Info-Line (german language) http://europe.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/10/kosovo/ Kosovo-Special Service of CNN http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo/newsid_271 00/271265.stm Kosovo-Special of BBC http://www.gfbv.de/voelker/europa/kosovo.htm Die Albaner im Kosovo – Web-Special der Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (german language) http://www.russiatoday.com/ Web-Site of the russian megazine “Russia Today” http://headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/World/Kosovo/ Crisis in Kosovo http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/10/kosovo/ Conflict in Kosovo @ CNN http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/Kosovo/new_kosovo_index.html Coverage of Kosovo @ ABC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo/ Kosovo Special Report @ BBC http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/balkans.ht Balkans @ Washington Post http://www.kohaditore.com/ARTA/index.htm ARTA Kohaditore Pristina daily http://www.crisisweb.org/projects/sbalkans/kosovo.htm Kosovo ICG South Balkans project http://www.balkaninstitute.org/internet.html Balkan Internet Resources Balkan Institute http://www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/kosovo98/index.htm Kosovo Crisis...

The Balkans Important documents This Is What the EU Wants From the Yugoslav OppositionOctober 17, 1999 Internal Documents from Germany’s Foreign Office Regarding Pre-Bombardment Genocide in KosovoWhat remains of NATO’s argument after this?Collected by International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, IALANA (August 27, 1999) Joint Statement of Albanian and Serb Leaders of Kosovo Undertaking of Demilitarisation and Transformation by the UCKThis is the full text of the accord on the demilitarisation of the Kosovo Liberation Army. June 21, 1999 United Nations Resolution 1244 (1999) on KosovoAdopted by the Security Council at its 4011th meeting, on 10 June 1999 G8 Kosovo draft resolution Cologne June 8, 1999(Reuters) Includes all points and both annexes to draft resolution Belgrade Peace Agreement 4.6.99Full text of the peace document . Balkan Action Council, withThe Kosovo Interim Agreement of Feb 23, 1999 President Milosevic and Four Other IndictedThursday 27 May 1999, the International Criminal Tribunal...

By Dr. Erika Laubacher-Kubat* In this century alone 160 million people have been killed through wars, genocide and torture; since 1945 almost 200 wars have been fought. Laws on non-intervention, the blocking veto in the UN security council, and the immunity of government leaders have, in almost all cases, protected the perpetrators rather than the victims. The majority of today’s wars are intra-state conflicts between rivaling political groups within a state or conflicts arising between groups and the respective state. Key to identifying the conflict groups is the politicization of ethnic traits via their political leaders. Almost two-thirds of all wars have ethnopolitical roots and occur much more often than wars of an anti-regime nature or between countries. While inter-state wars tend to result in the strengthening of state power, intra-state wars often lead to the collapse of law and order and to the breakdown of military forces into armed...

Please Sign in Next 24 Hours From: FoE Sydney – Nuclear Campaign <nonukes@foesyd.org.au> Dear All, A copy of this letter is to be given to Russian foreign minister Ivanov in the next 24 hours. It is adressed to Ivanov and Sergeyev rather than Yeltsin himself, as those individuals are more likely to be in control and may be more reasonable. It is now open to organisations signatures. (Individuals, please send your own faxes direct to US defence Secy Cohen and Sergeyev and Clinton on +1-703-695-1149 (Cohen)+7-095-205-4330 (Sergeyev)+1-202-456-2461 (Clinton)) It’s been revised in accordance with comments from a number of people and the text is now frozen unless someone picks up some absolutely egregious error. Please do sign both this and if you have not already done so, the large ‘Bill and Boris’ sign on which now has 460+ organisations signed on to it. That letters text can be found on http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd/nuclear/bbletter.html...

The Peace Journalism Option 3 By Jake Lynch for Conflict and Peace Forums   PART 3 3. REPORTING OF ‘THE KOSOVO CRISIS’ ‘The Serbs’ – Aggregation and Dis-Aggregation Nowhere has the tendency to ‘aggregation’ been more evident than in coverage of the past decade’s upheavals in present and former Yugoslavia. The zero-sum analysis offered by most Western reporting is based on the proposition that ‘the Serbs’ were guilty of ‘starting it.’ A piece for the BBC’s Newsnight, screened as Yugoslav forces vacated the province in June 1999, proved an extraordinary example of this underlying narrative and an apt illustration of how ‘aggregation’ plays an important part in constructing it. The report was filed from Urosevac as local Serb civilians fled in fear of violence by the Kosovo Liberation Army. In the link read by the presenter, we learned that Russia had, that day, called for an urgent debate in the United...

Links to Facts & Views Nonviolence & forgiveness • Real peace builds on people, from the ground-up as well as by top-down peace agreements:Peace that starts in the heartsIn October, millions of Colombians – perhaps a third of the population – took to the streets in the country’s largest protest against a decades-long civil war and in support of fresh peace talks between the government and Marxist rebels. • Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, President of the Buddhist organisation, Soka Gakkai International, SGI, who is also a TFF adviser reflects on the necessary peace culture we must learn to develop:Towards a Culture of Peace. A Cosmic View“…I suggest that for the sake of overcoming the identity crises undermining the soul of modern humanity we must attempt to discover a new cosmology. Unless we raise our sights this high, hopes of nurturing true world citizens must inevitably prove illusory.” • A global inter-generational dialogue initiated by young people:The...

By Walter A. McDougallVolume 7, Number 12Foreign Policy Research Institute WIREDecember 1999 Walter A. McDougall is the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, Editor of Orbis, and Co-Director of FPRI’s History Academy. His most recent book is Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776,Houghton Mifflin, 1997. This is his eynote address at FPRI 1999 Annual Dinner. “Several people, including our host Ron Naples, whose burden it was to introduce this lecture, have asked me what exactly I meant to discuss this evening inasmuch as my title was hopelessly vague. That, I confess, was by design, so as to leave me free to say pretty much whatever was on my mind, come November 10, about U.S. foreign relations at the turn of the century. And it seemed to me that I could take any of three approaches. I might, for instance, choose to...

Nonviolence – forgiveness • We must learn from touching human stories about the will to abandon hate.The road to forgivenessIn South Africa’s Western Cape there is a rapidly growing bakery with the unusual brand name: “Amy’s bread – the bread of hope and peace.” The local communities know its significance. Amy Biehl was a Fulbright Scholar who was murdered in the Western Cape in the run-up to the 1994 elections. The bakery, run by the Amy Biehl Foundation, exists because her parents, Peter and Linda Biehl, from California, decided to walk the road of forgiveness. By Michael Henderson. • How actually did the old Cold War end – and what does it tell about the new emerging Cold War now?How We Ended the Cold WarJohn Tirman reflects in The Nation. “The dominant view of the right and center is that military intimidation was the root of victory, a dangerous axiom then and...

Links to Facts & Views Beauty and nonviolence, and International Day for Tolerance Let’s begin this Transnational WIRE with a text on beauty and on how we could learn from appreciation of beauty that violence is a bad idea• Does beauty really equal truth?Philosopher Elaine Scarry defends beauty from politically correct critics. Here is one of her beautiful thoughts: “One of the reasons that violence has in our own era been so easily anesthetized is precisely because we’ve gotten unanchored from beauty.” November 16 was the UN-declared International Day for Tolerance. Here is how UNESCO’s new Director-General, Koichiro Matsuura, observed this important day:• Tolerance – a dynamic world valueAnd the UN Secretary-General promised to make tolerance a priority:• We can advance tolerance every day, says Kofi Annan. The old Cold War – and the New… On the occassion of the end of the Cold War:• CIA warned of Gorbachev’s fallWhat did CIA think it...

Links to Facts & Views, Kosovo and the Second Cold War Europe was extremely close to a major war. Did the allies know? Who would have made the decision? What would we, the citizens of NATO countries, have been told? Was Europe’s security and the existence of NATO put at risk because of the sufferings of Kosovo-Albanians? Because of a genocide that did not take place? Or because we are heading for a new Cold War?• NATO moved very close to invasion in KosovoThe United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Finland and Yugoslavia — the United States came much closer to a ground war in Europe than is commonly understood. Read Steven Erlanger’s absolutely shocking analysis in New York Times. And what shall we do with the trophy? The American press is beginning to see that Kosovo was not all that simple and easy…• Kosovo in limboThis word picture is painted by the U.N....