Kosovo Web Links
Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in English providing information on Kosovo, a province of Serbia in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. For related web links, see Regional Resources: Europe.
These links complement these Special Reports:
- Kosovo Dialogue: Too Little, Too Late
- Kosovo: Escaping the Cul de Sac
- Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Intervention in the Balkans and Beyond
- Kosovo Final Status: Options and Cross-Border Requirements
- Simulating Kosovo: Lessons for Final Status Negotiations
- Lawless Rule Versus Rule of Law in the Balkans
- Kosovo Decision Time: How and When?
These web links also support USIP's Balkans Initiative, particularly regarding Kosovo.
General Resources
The sites below collect links to other Internet resources which
describe the background, history and current events in Kosovo.
- Balkans
Conflict: CDI Resources
Web site of the Center for Defense Information (CDI) has links to
documents, articles, maps and organizations.
- INCORE
guide to Internet sources on conflict and ethnicity in Kosovo
A selective list of annotated links to email lists and newsgroups,
news sources,articles and documents, NGOs, maps, etc. from the Initiative
on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity.
- ISN:
Information Services: Kosovo Peace Process
Extensive annotated links to documents, government agencies, organizations,
and news sources, organized by the International Relations and Security
Network in Zurich.
- Kosovo
Conflict 1999
Bigchalk: Homework Central has compiled extensive resources on Kosovo
for high school students, including links to sources for news, country
and historical information, international organizations, languages,
ethnic groups, religion, biography, culture and arts.
- Mario's Cyberspace
Station: Kosovo Crisis
From the very busy main page, scroll down to the list of subjects
and select Kosovo Crisis. A comprehensive site based in Croatia
produced by freelance journalist Mario Profaca, it provides links
to an array of regional and international news sources and organizations
with information on the background and current situation in Kosovo,
plus links to full text articles, a search engine and a road map
of Kosovo.
- Sources
on the Balkan Peninsula: Yugoslavia
A collection of links compiled by the Hellenic Resources Institute
and posted on their network, covering news sources, agencies, organizations,
political parties, and lists of links from commercial search engines
such as Yahoo! and Alta Vista.
- Target
Kosovo
Compiled by the Federation of American Scientists, this comprehensive
set of links covers security, military analysis sources, news sources,
international agencies, government organizations and a discussion
of congressional debate and background information on the conflict.
 Government Agencies and International Organizations
Council of Europe
European Union
- Commitment to Kosovo
Web site of the European Union's resources on Kosovo, the site includes a mission statement, news, events, publications and documents, and links to related web sites such as the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) or the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO).
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
G8
- University of Toronto G8 Information Centre
This website, hosted by the library at the University of Toronto, contains documents of the G8 meetings, including the May 6, 1999 statement on the "general principles on the political solution to the Kosovo crisis," and proposals on the "civilian aspects of the implementation of an interim peace settlement in Kosovo" dated June 10, 1999.
Independent International Commission on Kosovo
International Crisis Group (ICG)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- Allied Forces Southern
Europe
"Operation
Allied Force is a NATO contingency response aiming at ensuring
full compliance with UN Security Council Resolution 1199 (Sept.
23rd 1998)." Air strikes began March 24, 1999 in the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia and ended June 10, 1999. The web site includes background
information, images, map, transcripts, multimedia, and list of participating
forces.
- Operation
Allied Harbour began April 16, 1999 "to provide humanitarian
assistance in support of, and in close coordination with, the UNHCR
and Albanian civil and military authorities, to alleviate the suffering
of those who were forced to leave their homes in Kosovo and are
now in Albania."
- Operation
Determined Guarantor, first begun "to conduct an extraction
of OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) Verifiers and/or Persons
with Designated Special Status in Kosovo in order to assure their
safety," now is "engaged in providing support to humanitarian assistance
to Kosovar refugees."
- Operation
Eagle Eye" consisted of NATO verification flights over Kosovo,
the southern province of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Through
this multinational peace-support operation, the Alliance was able
to contribute to verification of compliance with United Nations
Security Council Resolution 1199 (Sept. 23rd 1998)." Operation Eagle
Eye flights over Kosovo ceased on 24 March 1999. The Kosovo
Verification Co-ordination Centre (KVCC) was part of Operation
Eagle Eye.
- Operation
Joint Guardian (KFOR), authorized by the North Atlantic Council
on June 10, 1999, "is a NATO contingency response aiming at ensuring
full compliance with the Military Technical Agreement signed by
NATO and FRY military authorities on 9 June 1999 and with UN Security
Council Resolution 1244 (June 10, 1999)." The web site includes
background information, images, list of participating forces, and
related links. Includes a link to the KFOR
Online Homepage, which details the establishment of KFOR, and
has news, background, press, media and contact information, photos,
video and audio clips, maps and and more links to related web sites.
- NATO Official Homepage
The NATO homepage links to documents and briefings on Operation
Joint Guardian and a calendar of daily press briefings, statements,
maps and aerial views for Operation
Allied Force. Also includes a link to historical
overview of NATO's role in relation to the conflict and background
information.
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
- OSCE Mission in Kosovo
The web site has a special section on the 2001 elections in Kosovo, covering election operations, voter information, regulatory information and election observers. The OSCE site also gives an overview of the mission and contains relevant documents, fact sheets, profiles, statements and press releases, feature stories, activities, and links to other web resources, including and OSCE documents library.
Republic of Serbia
Russia
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In Russian, with links to information in four other languages, including English, the web site contains a daily news bulletin, documents, press releases (including some dealing with Kosovo), statements, briefings, and links to government agencies. Also includes search capability.
United Nations
- Humanitarian Community Information Centre (HCIC)
Web site includes database of NGOs working in Kosovo, an atlas,
reports on Kosovo reconstruction and links
to related web sites.
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Web site includes latest news and documents, judgements, indictments and procedings including the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, featuring daily transcripts of the hearings and weekly summaries. Other documents include the Second Amended Indictment (concerning Kosovo) against Slobodan Milosevich and others and a fact sheet about the case.
- ReliefWeb:
Balkans The Latest
ReliefWeb, a project
of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA), has a database of the latest news and reports on
the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo and the Balkans. The database
can be searched by month going back to December 1997, by source
(organization name), by format or type of report, or by the latest
news first. Keyword search capability is available, as are links
to related reports. Yugoslavia:
The Latest country information has additional material and links
for Kosovo. Within country listing, related links include background
information and topics such as refugees
and IDPs with a link to IDPs
in Yugoslavia (Former Republic of) from the Global
IDP Project on internally displaced persons.
- United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Human Rights in Kosovo
This web site brings together the press releases, statements, resolutions
and reports by the High Commissioner, Secretary-General of the United
Nations and the Special Rapporteur concerning the human rights situation
in Kosovo and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Also includes
links to related organizations.
- United Nations Interim
Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
The web site groups UN-related news items, press releases, statements,
declarations, reports, press conferences and briefings, images and
documents concerning the United Nations' involvement in Kosovo.
Includes a chronology
of the mission, links to other UN organizations and related web
sites.
United States
- U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID): Office for Transition
Initiatives (OTI): Kosovo
The web site for USAID-OTI on Kosovo contains a summary
page with background information on OTI program in Kosovo, the
Kosovo Transitition Initiative (KTI). Includes links to the main
page for OTI, substantive country field reports, and the USAID
Mission for Kosovo.
- U.S.
Department of State: Building Peace in Kosovo
Archived U.S. Department of State's site to material released prior
to January 21, 2001 includes official statements, press briefings,
fact sheets, reports
on ethnic cleansing and the situation in Kosovo (special reports
entitled: Ethnic
Cleansing in Kosovo: An Accounting, December 1999 and Erasing
History, Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo, May 1999). Provides a section
on Kosovo
Refugee Assistance Information and links to other related Internet
sites. Includes remarks
of former Secretary of State Albright on Kosovo given at the United
States Institute of Peace. The current U.S. Department of State's
web site has material on the Balkans.
- U.S.
Department of State: Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of: Country Reports
on Human Rights Practices: 2001 (Section on Kosovo)
The U.S. State Department's extensive report on human rights in
the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, released by the Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor, March 4, 2002. Reports for 2000
and previous
years 1993-1999 are available online.
- U. S. European Command
The United States European Command web site for Kosovo
links to Operation
Joint Guardian/Task Force Falcon, which describes the U.S. contribution
to the NATO operations.
- U.S. Institute of Peace: Declarations from Airlie, Lansdowne
and Sofia
These documents are the result of meetings aimed at peace-building
efforts in Kosovo, facilitated by USIP: the Airlie
Declaration, reached at Airlie House in Warrenton, Virginia,
July 24, 2000; the Lansdowne
Declaration, September 13, 2000 from the Landsdowne Center in
Virginia, and the Sofia
Declaration, from Sofia, Bulgaria on December 17, 1999.
World Bank
- Economic Reconstruction
and Development in South East Europe
A joint web site of the European Commission and the World Bank created
"as part of the international community's reponse to the Kosovo
crisis," it contains a calendar of events/conferences, news releases,
speeches
and statements, documents issued by the EU, UN, IMF and IMF/WB,
including the Stability
Pact for South Eastern Europe from June 10, 1999, links to related
sites, with other sections of the web site under construction. The
announcement
of the launching of the joint web site describes the scope and types
of information that will be covered, including assessment of the
economic impacts and costs of the Kosovo crisis, reconstruction
needs, and register of donor assistance.
- Rebuilding
Kosovo
Web site of the World Bank Group provides news releases, press briefings,
reports, country briefs and regional information, background reports,
with key indicators and tables of comparative trends in PDF files
(requires Adobe®
Acrobat® Reader to view).
Maps and Guides
Media and News Sources
- AIM: Alternative Information
Network
The web site for AIM (Alternativna informativna mreza) describes
the organization,
includes articles in English from various East European centers,
including Pristina.
Links
to related web sites and subscription by e-mail
is available.
- Arta
An archived source in English on the situation in Kosovo (1999),
on the site of the daily Koha
Ditore from Pristina.
- BBC
News | Kosovo
A comprehensive special report on Kosovo by the BBC which includes
a chronology of the conflict, background, history, highlights. maps
and current news. Audio and video interviews also available. Some
special sections include the Interactive
Fact File, interactive maps and databases providing information
on country positions on NATO air strikes, military hardware, and
key figures in the crisis and Kosovo-the
conflict on the web, describing how the conflict is being reported
on the web.
- Common
Dreams' News Center: News in Depth: the Kosovo War
An extensive collection of links to news sources, opinion and analysis,
special reports on the Kosovo crisis and organizations involved
in the conflict.
- European Centre for Minority
Issues (ECMI)
The web site for this Danish-German research institute has a links
database to minority issues, with links
to Kosovo crisis web pages, including several documents and other
full text publications. Under development is a Electronic
Map of Ethnopolitical Conflict in Europe.
- Institute for War and Peace
Reporting
"An independent publishing and media group" based in London, the
web site of the IPWR contains several special reports on the conflict
in the region, such as the Balkan
Crisis Reports and Tribunal
Update, which reports on the International War Crimes Tribunal
for the Former Yugoslavia.
- Kosova Crisis
News
Compiled by the Eurasia Research Center, these links include numerous
media and news sources, search engines, Serbian, Albanian and other
organizations and government agencies.
- Radio21
"The first internet radio service in Albanian," this site has news
stories and interviews. Includes a history
and description of the station in English as well as current
news. Other pages are under contruction. Requires Real Player
for audio of radio programs in Albanian.
- Radio B92
Web site of Radio and TV B92, with breaking news from Yugoslavia
in English, Serbian, Albanian and Hungarian. Includes interviews,
discussions, music charts, and descriptions of various B92 projects.
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
The RFE/RL Newsline
for Southeastern Europe, a daily report of developments in the
region, contains news from Kosovo, as does the weekly REF/RL Balkan Report. The Crime and Corrruption Watch covers organized crime and terrorism in the former USSR, East Europe and the Middle East. Archives of past issues and subscription by e-mail are also available. In addition, REF/RL has a special archived section on NATO and Yugoslavia with links to news broadcasts in four languages, and a list of links to related web sites on Kosovo.
- WashingtonPost.com: Balkans Report
A comprehensive report from 1999 on Kosovo and the Balkans, with a featured story, background information, timelines, photos, maps, documents, web links, etc.
- Yahoo!
Full Coverage: Kosovo News
Links to numerous current articles from worldwide news sources on the Kosovo situation, including wire services (Reuters, AP), major newspaper sites, audio and video sites (NPR and BBC), and several
related sites from various organizations and governments.
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