Montenegro Web Links
Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in English providing information on Montenegro, one of two republics comprising the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. For related web links, see Regional Resources: Europe.
These links complement these Special Reports:
- Montenegro--and more--at risk
- Serbia and Montenegro: Reintegration, Divorce, or Something Else?
- Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Intervention in the Balkans and Beyond
These web links also support USIP's Balkans Initiative, particularly regarding Montenegro.
General Resources
The sites below collect links to other Internet resources which describe the background, history politics of Montenegro.
- INCORE
guide to Internet sources on conflict and ethnicity in Serbia and
Montenegro
A selective collection of annotated links to sources for news, articles
and documents, NGOs, maps, etc. from the Initiative on Conflict
Resolution & Ethnicity.
- International
Cultural Center (ICC) Library--Eastern Europe Links: Montenegro
From Texas Tech University, annotated links to government, internet
search tools (with automatic searches from three search engines),
and other useful general resources.
- Montenegrin Association
of America
Links to information on Montenegro covering geography, history,
religion, politics and other topics.
- REESWeb: East European
Studies Virtual Library (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
REESWeb has a comprehensive database of annotated electronic resources
for Russia and Eastern Europe which can be browsed
by subject, culture, region (including Macedonia) or time period.
A keyword
search is also available.
- Slavophilia: Slavic and
East European Resources
Web site contains an extensive collection of links, many of them
annotated, accessed through a subject index, country index and search
engine. Yugoslavia
links are organized by subject category, with the language of each
external web site (Bosnian, English, etc.) identified.
- 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.
Government Agencies and International Organizations
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
International Crisis Group (ICG)
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
United Nations
- 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 Macedonia 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.
Within country listing, related links include background information
and topics such as refugees
and IDPs with a link to IDPs
in Macedonia from the Global
IDP Project on internally displaced persons. ReliefWeb also
includes a map
center, site map and search capability.
- ReliefWeb:
Balkans: The Latest
ReliefWeb, a project
of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA), has the latest news and "humanitarian response information
on current emergencies and countries of concern" in its section
on complex
emergencies. Also includes documents and related links organized
by by
country, a map
center, and site map and search capability.
- United Nations Home Page (UN)
Home page of the United Nations, with links to databases, documents,
publications, conferences, events, organs of the United Nations,
including the Security
Council, and other resources.
- UNHCR: Country
of Origin and Legal Information
The web site for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) has databases for country of origin and legal information
documents and reports. Pull-down menus allow selection by country
and/or subject and a specific search engine feature is also provided.
Each country compilation includes links to country reports, legal
documents, news and maps.
United States
Human Rights and Refugees
- Annual
Report 2001: Montenegro
From the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, this
section of a 2001 comprehensive report (on events in 2000) focuses
on Montenegro, and includes sections on legislation, elections,
independence of the judiciary, religious intolerance and misconduct
by the military.
- IDPs
in Yugoslavia (Federal Republic of)
From the Global IDP Project
database, several categories of data regarding patterns of displacement,
return and resettlement, property issues, humanitarian access, for
example.
- Montenegrin Helsinki
Committee for Human Rights
From the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, this
web page provides background information, contacts and a description
of current projects.
- Yugoslavia,
Federal Republic of: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices:
2001 (Section on Montenegro)
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.
Maps and Guides
- CIA
Factbook: Serbia and Montenegro
Basic facts on Serbia and Montenegro prepared by the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency.
- Political
Map of Serbia
Maps detailing political, ethnic, economic, etc. terrain in Serbia,
prepared by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Part of the larger
Balkans
Regional Atlas, which also covers Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- Yugoslavia
(Serbia and Montenegro) Maps
Maps from the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection of the University
of Texas at Austin. These maps were produced by the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency and the Defense Mapping Agency.
Media and News Sources
Updated: March 6 2002
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