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Dear All,

Please find below links to a selection of articles published by TransConflict throughout the month of January.

- Kosovo - okay, really, what next? - by Gerard Gallucci - With 2009 having ended much as it began, the international community must continue to pursue a peacekeeping approach to the north in order to keep alive the possibility of a negotiated outcome (als… Continue

Dear All,

Please find below links to a selection of articles published by TransConflict throughout December.

- Kosovo - partitioning what from what? - by Gerard Gallucci - Though partition is far from the best way to resolve the Kosovo question, it is a political option for Kosovo as part of a final status resolution and has been used by one side already (also available i… Continue

Dear All,

Please find below links to a selection of articles published by TransConflict throughout November.

- Republika Srpska – after independence - by Matthew Parish - Bosnia's war ended with a partition plan, which the international community subsequently used all its efforts to undermine and create a unified state. Now the west's power in the country has receded, th… Continue

Originally published at - http://www.transconflict.com/News/2009/July/Precarious_Presevo.php

The second serious incident in the space of a week in the Preševo Valley region of southern Serbia has re-enforced the need for ethnic Albanian politicians to strengthen their involvement in the work of the Coordination Body for the Municipalities of Preševo, Bujanovac and Medvedja

By Ian Bancroft

An explosion in a mainly Serb-populated neighbourhood of the predominantly ethnic Albanian town of Prešev… Continue