GGN Special: Kosovo On-Line
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GGN Special: Kosovo On-Line
Grassroot Good News
Special Issue 6 / Mid December 1998
Contents: Kosovo Crisis On-line
1) Web Sites covering the Kosovo crisis generally
2) Web Sites with Web-Links lists for Kosovo
3) Sites with special focus on the OSCE Verification Mission (KVM)
4) Background Analyses, Peace-Building Proposals, "Solution" Drafts
5) Electronic Mailing Lists
This GGN Special Issue informs about Web Pages and Electronic Mailing
Lists dealing with the recent conflict in Kosovo/Kosova. The headlines
under which the material is organized shall not suggest any clear
cutting the aspects of the crisis which are obviously overlapping. Due
to the continuous change of the Web this compilation can neither be
complete nor fixed (additions and corrections to
[email protected] are highly welcome). So the only
possibility to stay tuned is to check the Web continuously. Also
inclusion or oblivion of sources in the compilation below has none
evaluating connotation.
Within the European and German Platforms for Conflict Prevention
Kosovo Working Groups have been established recently. Resource person
for Kosovo within the Work Committee of the German Platform is
[email protected]
1) Web Sites covering the Kosovo crisis generally
The Swiss Daily "Neue Zuercher Zeitung (NZZ)" has Kosovo dossiers and
a compilation of its single Kosovo-related NZZ-articles at
www.nzz.ch/online/02_dossiers/kosovo/
Comprehensive articles and backgrounds on the conflict in Kosovo are
at www.medienhilfe.ch/news/kosovo
Kosovo reports by "Crisisweb" are at
www.crisisweb.org/projects/sbalkans/kosovo.htm
"Kosovo/a On-Line" is a Serbian-Albanian discussion project at
www.beta-press.com/ with a special topic "Kosovo and OSCE Mission"
The BBC has a special report on Kosovo at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo/
Yahoo has a "Full Coverage: World News: Kosovo Conflict" at
http://hadlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/World/Kosovo/
Kosovo-related articles in The New York Times can be searched at
www.nytimes.com/library/world/kosovo-index.html
The Washington Post has an archive of its regular reporting on the
Balkans at
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/background.htm
Kosovo-related articles in "Le Monde Diplomatique" are at
www.monde-diplomatique.fr/md/index/pays/kosovo.html
The British Ministry of Defence reports about Kosovo on
www.mod.uk/news/kosovo/
"Radio 21" by the Media Project Pristina at www.radio21.net
2) Web Sites with Web-Links lists for Kosovo
A large Web site with a lot of Kosovo-directed links is published by
the "Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity" on
www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/kosovo.html
The "Federation of American Scientists" has a large Kosovo-directed
link list with special focus on the military aspects at
www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/kosovo.htm
The "Washington Post" has a link list with key Balkan Documents at
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/documents.htm
"Yahoo" has a Kosovo-Links-List at
http:/headlines.yahoo.com/Full_Coverage/World/Kosovo/
The "Greek Helsinki Monitor" publishes "Appeals, Statements, News
Releases by International Organizations on Kosovo" at
www.greekhelsinki.gr/english/pressrelease/kosovo.html
"Kosovo - the battle on the screen" is a dossier by the "Neue Zuercher
Zeitung (NZZ)" dealing with on-line reporting and electronic news
release about the Kosovo conflict including link references at
www.nzz.ch/online/02_dossiers/kosovo/kos981106awy.htm
A List of further links to Kosovo is published by the NZZ at
www.nzz.ch/online_dossiers02_dossiers.kosovo/kos02.htm
The information Mega-Site www.usia.gov/regional/eur/balkans/kosovo/ is
compiled by the United States Information Agency with sub-sections
containing links to:
- U.S. Government Agencies
- International Organizations
- NGOs
- Other Links
The British Ministry of Defence has Kosovo-links on its web site
www.mod.uk/news/kosovo/links/index.htm
Other links-containing Web sites:
www.balkaninstitute.org/internet.html (by the non longer existing
"Balkan Institute")
http://mprofaca.cro.net/kosovo.html
www.osceprag.cz/news/wwwlinks.htm
www.medienhilfe.ch/
3) Sites with special focus on the OSCE Verification Mission (KVM)
The US Department of State releases at www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/:
- Daily Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission (KDOM) reports from the
field
- Frequent Progress Reports about military, humanitarien and political
events within the Kosovo crisis
- Ad hoc "Remarks and Briefings"
The Web Page of the UN is www.un.org
Links to key documents for Kosovo are at
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/documents.htm
The texts of the UN Security Council Resolutions 1160 and 1199 related
to the situation in Kosovo (to which the OSCE verification mission
refers as legal UN background) are published at
www.mod.uk/news/kosovo/backgrnd/unresoln.htm
The Resolution 1203 adopted by the UN Security Council on 24 October
1998 which which made the way to the OSCE verification mission is
published at www.osceprag.cz/news/unsc1203.htm
The text of the OSCE Kosovo verification agreement is published at
www.osceprag.cz/news/agreekos.htm
The Decision No. 263 of the OSCE Permanent Council which is the formal
basis of the Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) on side of the OSCE is
published at www.osceprag.cz/news/pcdec263.htm. You find a longer
description of the KVM in not so formal-diplomatic speak, for example
about what the "verifiers" are and what they will do (according to
OSCE), on www.osceprag.cz/news/deploy.htm
OSCE press releases related to the KVM (for example career information
about W. G. Walker, head to the KVM mission) are published at
www.osceprag.cz/inst./secret/presrel/
The Swiss Daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung analyses the OSCE mission in
Kosovo/ Kosova at
www.nzz.ch/online/02_dossiers/kosovo/kos981029csr.htm ("Can the OSCE
stabilize Kosovo?"). So does the BBC with two articles "the OSCE's
vital role" and "Will the deal work" on
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo/
Yahoo has published an article "International verifiers start work in
Kosovo" on www.yahoo.com.sg/headlines/ and two articles: "Top
Verifier Arrives in Kosovo Amid Peace Concerns" (referring to W.
Walker) and "Kosovo Cease-fire Observers Will Be Safe - U.S. Envoy" on
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/
A profound detailed analysis of the KVM by "Human Rights Watch" is
published at www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/kosovo98/recs.htm
4) Background Analyses, Peace-Building Proposals, "Solution" Drafts
The Web site of the "Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future
Research" in Sweden (www.transnational.org) deals with aspects of the
Kosovo conflict. You can also subscribe to its TTF PressInfos.
PressInfo No. 46 heads "Time to Try True Nonviolence in Kosovo/a"
"Crisisweb" has published a long paper "Intermediate Sovereignity As A
Basis For Resolving The Kosovo Crisis" on
www.crisisweb.org/projects/sbalkans/reports/kosrep07a.htm
"Grassroot Good News" from the Threshold covers low-level citizens'
based peace-building efforts in the Kosovo and surrounded regions on
an ad-hoc basis. For an example GGN issue 5 December 1, 1998 refers to
the emerging "Human Rights and Civil Society Promotion Project" in
Shkoder (Northern Albania) assisted by the Threshold Foundation.
Subscriptions via electronic mail to [email protected]
5) Electronic Mailing Lists
Peacenet Balkans Desk = www.igc.apc.org/balkans
Kosovo Listserv by the US Information Agency:
www.usia.gov/regional/eur/balkans/kosovo/listserv.htm
http://balkansnet.org/racoon/kosovo.html
"Kosova-Info-Line" at www.kosova-info-line.de/
Overview on Kosovo-related newsgroups at: www.sociamedia.nl/
"Albanews" and "Albanian" moderated by [email protected]
Kosova Crisis Center (KCC) News (moderated by
[email protected])
Kosova Information Center at www.kosova.com/
Kosovo Mailing list by [email protected]
"Grassroot Good News" moderated by [email protected]
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