Independence without standards? Kosovo's interethnic relations since 1999

European Yearbook of Minority Issues

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 219-241

  Marko, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

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EID: 72449173627     PISSN: 15707865     EISSN: 22116117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/22116117-90000046     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Joseph Marko, "Kosovo/a - A Gordian Knot?", in id., Gordischer Knoten Kosovo/a: Durch-schlagen oderEntwirren? (Nomos, Baden-Baden, 1999), 261-280.
2. A detailed constitutional and legal analysis of these years was elaborated on behalf of the I C T Y Prosecutor's Office by Joseph Marko, "Expert Witness Report On Constitutional and Legal Issues in the MOS case", 2005, now available at http://www.uni-graz.at/sue-dosteuropa.
3. A comprehensive assessment of the UNMIK administration until the end of 2004 is given by Helmut Kramer and Vedran Dzihic, Die Kosovo Bilanz. Scheitert die internationale Gemeinschaft? (LIT Verlag, Munster, 2005).
4. See I C G Report, "Kosovo: Toward Final Status", 24 January 2005, 3.
5. Kai Eide, "A Comprehensive Review of the Situation in Kosovo", 7 October 2005, at http://www.unosek.org/docref/KaiEidereport.pdf.
6. Avisory Committee opinion on the Implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities in Kosovo, ACFC/OP/I(2006) at http://www.coe. int/minorities.
7. See Statistical Office of Kosovo, "Kosovo and Its Population", revised version, available at http://www.ks-gov.net/esk.
8. See European Stability Initiative, "The Lausanne Principle. Multiethnicity, Territory and the Future of Kosovo's Serbs", Berlin-Prishtine, 7 June 2004, 7.
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10. See Colin Irwin, "Kosovo-Kosova. Coming to Terms with the Problem of Kosovo: The Peoples' Views from Kosovo and Serbia", Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe, 2005, 12.
11. Allfiguresand timeseries are quoted from UNDP, "Early Warning System, Kosovo", Report No. 12, October-December 2005, 22-23.
12. See http://www.coe.int/T/E/Com/Files/kosovo/decentralisation-mission.asp.
13. UN Security Council, "Statement by the President of the Security Council", 30 April 2004, at http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/unsc_pres_statements04.html.
14. Government of Serbia, "A Plan for the Political Solution to the Situation in Kosovo and Metohija", 29 April 2004.
15. Working Group on the Local Government, "Framework on the Reform of Local Self-Government in Kosovo", 19 July 2004, Prishtine.
16. On South Tyrol as a possible 'model' for conflict-resolution see in general Joseph Marko, "Sudtirol: Zur Frage des Exports einer Konfliktlosung", in ibid. et al. (eds.), Die Verfassung der Sudtiroler Autonomie (Nomos, Baden-Baden 2005), 511-525;
17. Gresa Caka, Decentralization in Kosovo: A Key to Status Settlement. Lessons From South Tyrol, Thesis in the framework of the Master Programme in European Integration and Regionalism, Graz, 2006.
18. See in particular Joseph Marko, "The Referendum on Decentralization in Macedonia in 2004: A Litmus Test for Macedonia's Interethnic Relations", 4 EYMI (2004/05), 711-721.
19. Unity Team, "Basic Principles of the Local Government Reform in Kosovo", 13 February 2006, Prishtine.
20. Consultative Council on Communities, "Framework for the Protection of Rights of Communities in Kosovo", Prishtine, August 2006.
21. For an overall first assessment see International Crisis Group, "Serbia's New Constitution: Democracy Going Backwards", Europe Briefing No. 44, 8 November 2006.