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• Developments
• The evolution of constitutionalism
• Serbia and Yugoslavia.

• Introduction
• Part 1: Nation and Myth in Public and Political Discourse The Rise of the 'National We': Reconfiguring Serbian Nationalism Kosovo and 'Heavenly Serbia': National Mythology in Culture and Politics, 1980s-Present 'Coming to Terms with the Past' Twelve Years after Ethnic Conflicts
• Part 2: National Mythology and Common Sense in Conflict Narratives Narrating Ethnic Conflicts and the NATO Air Strikes Victimhood and Threat in Conflict Narratives Blame Attribution and Conspiracy Theory as Causes of Conflicts
• Part 3: 'The Nation' and Denial of War Crimes Aspects and Mechanisms of Denial Milosevic and Mladic as Defenders of the Nation Conclusion.
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In the years following the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbian social, cultural and political responses to the wars of the 1990s have fallen under intense scrutiny. In Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes in the Balkans, Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik explores some of those responses - taking into consideration notions such as silence, denial and conspiracy theory, the book sheds some light on the complicated narratives about the 1990s. The book considers the experience of knowing, witnessing and speaking about atrocities, and thus contributes to the debates on confronting the past in Serbia. Specifically, it considers how individuals of the "ordinary" public in Serbia reflect upon, understand and keep secrets about the 1991-1999 conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, and the atrocities, human rights abuses and war crimes which were committed there. Close attention is paid to the stories of individuals whose voices and experiences are generally excluded from the broader debate about the past. Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik explores how these narratives diverge from, resist and are invisible to the formal and civil society initiatives aimed at confronting the past in Serbia.In doing so, the book also explores silence about and denial of the violent past, and considers how and where these dynamics manifest and what they might mean. In addition, it covers themes such as narratives of self-victimhood, conspiracy theory and the perception of war-time leaders and combatants. This is a detailed and considered investigation into how groups cope with knowledge and the witnessing of violent pasts. It is based on ethnographic research and interviews with a group of 'ordinary' individuals, in post-Milosevic Serbia. As such, it provides a unique perspective on the lived experience of the conflicts, and the ways in which stories of the 1990s emerge in everyday contexts.
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• Humanitarian Pleas
• Foreword : Thorvald Stoltenberg
• Introduction
• I.Protected Areas
• II. Humanitarian Operations
• III. The UN Special Rapporteur
• IV. Efforts to Negotiate on the Foundation of Principles
• V. Preventive Strategies
• VI. Peacemaking
• VII. Peacekeeping
• VIII. Peacebuilding
• IX. Human Rights Monitoring and Fact-Finding
• X. Justice
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.
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This unique book, one of the first of its kind, discusses how human rights actually featured in UN peace operations in the deadly conflicts in the former Yugoslavia between 1992 and 1996. It is based on original materials in the possession of the author, who was Director of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslava from 1992 to 1996 and also served as Director of the Office of the UN Special Representative in charge of all peacemaking, peacekeeping, and humanitarian operations in the region. The book brings out the strategic centrality of human rights in the wide-ranging humanitarian operations. It shows how the peacekeepers built in a human rights dimension for the first time in the history of UN peacekeeping. And it shows how the peace negotiators sought to build their peace proposals on the foundations of human rights. It shows the peacemakers advocating justice for the victims while proceeding with their negotiating efforts. The great value of this book is that the author, who was personally involved in all of the activities he writes about, shows how human rights were instilled in practice in UN peace operations over a period of some four years and it also reveals, for the first time, some innovative ideas advanced that might be helpful in future peace operations.
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• Foreword
• Preface
• Authors Note
• Acknowledgements
• Executive Summary
• Table Of Contents
• Chapter 1: Post-Conflict Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons under International Law
• Chapter 2: Housing and Property Restitution in Kosovo
• Chapter 3: Establishment of Institutions Responsible for Conflict Related Property Restitution
• Chapter 4: Category and Nature of Claims and Claim Intake
• Chapter 5: Claims Processing
• Chapter 6: The Decision Making Process
• Chapter 7: The Service and Implementation of Decisions
• Chapter 8: Reconsideration Requests
• Chapter 9: Closure of Claim Files and Establishment of Kosovo Property Agency
• Chapter 10: Jurisprucence of The Housing and Property Claims Commission
• Chapter 11: Restitution and Compensation - Limits of Hpcc Jurisdiction
• Chapter 12: Administration, Funding, Institutional Structure and Information Technology
• Chapter 13: Essential Features of the Hpd/Hpcc Process and Overall Contribution to Peace Building
• Chapter 14: Lessons Learned and Concluding Note
• Annex I: Members of the Housing and Property Claims Commission
• Annex II: UNMIK Regulations 1999/23 and 2000/60
• Annex III: Additional Rules of the Housing and Property Claims Commission
• Annex IV: Decisions of the Housing and Property Claims Commission
• Annex V: Executive Directors of the Housing and Property Directorate.
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The right of refugees and internally displaced persons to return to their homes and places of residence in their country or place of origin following a refugee crisis has evolved significantly as a human rights norm over the past decade. Not only have several commentators and UN human rights bodies stressed the need for international peace-keeping operations to address effectively issues of housing and property rights, the past decade has seen international peace-keeping operations recognize these issues as a central component of peace- building efforts, and as indispensable to the promotion of peace, prosperity and development in post-conflict settings. Legal mechanisms mandated to address property issues and disputes have been established in particular national contexts to assist refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return to their homes, and there has emerged an explicit right of refugees and IDPs to restoration of their property rights, or compensation where restoration is no longer feasible. This is in stark contrast to the treatment of displaced persons over past centuries, whereby the homes and lands of those displaced, who were not on the side of the victors or those who remained in power, were lost forever. The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive overview of property restitution in post-conflict Kosovo. It commences with a consideration of the origins and evolution of the right to property restitution for refugees and internally displaced persons. It provides the reader with an outline of the situation in Kosovo prior to the 1999 armed conflict, the developments that led to the international property related intervention, and the subsequent establishment of the HPD/HPCC (the Housing and Property Directorate and its independent quasi judicial body the Housing and Property Claims Commission). The international property-related intervention is considered from a legal, institutional, operational and administrative perspective. It also provides a comprehensive outline of the jurisprudence of the Commission and concludes with an account of the lessons learned from the process over its six years of operations. This is a two volume set.
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