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Author:   Howard Clark
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780745315744

ISBN 10:   0745315747
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   20 August 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Introduction Notes on terms, pronunciation, glossary and acronyms Background Map Chapter 1: Serbia - When a dam breaks 1. The demographic battlefield 2. After the fall of Rankovic 3. The rising swell of nationalism 4. Milosevic mobilises 5. Lazar's curse: 'Whoever does not fight at Kosovo' Chapter 2: Albanians in Kosovo 1. The Ottoman Empire 2. The First World War and the First Yugoslavia 3. The Second World War 4. A resistant culture 5. Tito's Yugoslavia 6.. Concessions but no republic 7. 1981 and afterwards 8. An afterword on Communism in Kosovo Chapter 3: The turn to nonviolence 1. Miners defend autonomy 2. The Party crumbles 3. Organisation and pluralism 4. The Campaign to Reconcile Blood Feuds 5. Military realism 6. Nonviolence in Kosovo Albanian identity Chapter 4: Two sovereignties 1. A Serbian recipe for Albanian 'separatism' 2. Wholesale dismissals 3. Police and paramilitary 4. The contest for legitimacy 5. The electoral boycott 6. International support 7. Independence: a non-negotiable goal? Chapter 5: Parallel structures 1. Schools in struggle 2. Open but illegal 3. The University of Prishtina 4. Funding education 5. The lesson taught 6. Medical care 7. The media 8. Arts and sport 9. Economic survival 10. Politics 'as if' 11. A state-in-embryo Chapter 6: Pointers to an alternative 1. A strategy of empowerment 2. Altering Serbian will 3. New impulses: women 4. New impulses: youth 5. The Dayton effect 6. Contacts with Serb oppositionists 7. The student movement of 1997--98 Chapter 7: When the World Takes Notice 1. Diplomacy: The failure of prevention 2. Options for negotiation 3. A civil society approach 4. The crisis erupts 5. OSCE - too little, too late 6. Nato bombs for credibility Chapter 8: Reflections on civil resistance 1. The balance sheet on nonviolence in Kosovo 2. Power and will 3. Victim behaviour 3. Leader syndromes 4. Goals and processes 5. Civil resistance and conflict resolution 6. Early warning, civil resistance and small nations Postscript: Pristina, October 1999 Notes Select bibliography Index

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Howard Clark was a coordinator for War Resisters' International and embedded in civil peace initiatives in Kosovo throughout the 1990s. He is a founder of the Balkan Peace Team, and the author of People Power (Pluto, 2009).

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