Clearing up the fog of the conflict
Publisher: Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS)
Volume: 127 pages, pdf
Description
The nature of conflicts and peacemaking during the last two decades has produced fragile peace and consequently has left unresolved, contested, and frozen conflicts between and among disputant states. Although mainly metaphorical, the northerner regions of conflict-affected states and territories seem to be more prone to destabilization and social fragmentation, as evident with the Protestant-dominated Northerner Ireland, Turkishcontrolled Northern Cyprus, Dutch-dominated Flanders in the north of Belgium, Catalan-dominated of Catalonia in north of Spain, and many other regions. The political and social developments in the last thirteen years are making the north of Kosovo gradually a zone of political conflict as well as ethnic confrontation. Following the NATO’s humanitarian intervention and the deployment of international civilian and military personnel, the north of Kosovo became the nest of Serb community in Kosovo.