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Publications > Civil Resistance in Kosovo
by Howard Clark
Civil Resistance in Kosovo
by Howard Clark
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Title: Civil Resistance in Kosovo
Author: Howard Clark
ISBN: 0-7453-1569-0
Publisher & year: Pluto Press, 2000
Languages available: English, German
Price: $19.95
TO ORDER: Call USA + 1-800-232-0223 or USA + 1-703-661-1581
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Maps
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Brief Chronology
Background on Kosovo
Introduction
1. When a dam breaks
The demographic battlefield: 1912–66
After the fall of Rankovic
The rising swell of nationalism
Milosevic mobilises
Lazar's curse: 'Whoever does not fight at Kosovo'
2. The Albanians in Kosovo
The Ottoman Empire
The First World War and the First Yugoslavia
The Second World War
A resistant culture
Tito's Yugoslavia
Everything but a republic
1981 and afterwards
An Afterword on Communism in Kosovo
3. The turn to nonviolence
Miners defend autonomy
The Party crumbles
Organisation and pluralism
The Campaign to Reconcile Blood Feuds
Military realism
Nonviolence in Kosovo Albanian identity
4. Two sovereignties
A Serbian recipe for Albanian 'separatism'
Wholesale dismissals
Police and paramilitary
The contest for legitimacy
The electoral boycott
International support
Independence: a 'maximalist' goal?
5. Parallel structures
Schools in struggle
Open but illegal
The University of Prishtina
Funding education
The lesson taught
Medical care
The media
Arts and support
Economic survival
Politics 'as if'
A state-in-embryo
6. Pointers for an alternative strategy
The Dayton effect
A framework for 'active nonviolence'
A Strategy of empowerment
Altering Serbian will
Empowerment: women
Empowerment: youth
The student movement of 1997–98
7. When the world takes notice
Principles and interests
In the absence of a peace process
International solidarity takes time
International support for peacebuilding
The crisis erupts
OSCE–too little, too late
NATO bombs for credibility
8. Reflections on civil resistance
The balance sheet on civil resistance: the Kosovo perspective
The balance sheet on civil resistance: the international debate
Victim behaviour and nonviolence
Leader syndromes
Goals and transitions
Civil resistance and conflict resolution
Early warning, civil resistance and small nations
Appendix I: Tables
Appendix II: Notes on Terms, Pronunciations and Glossary
Appendix III: Leading Characters
Notes and References
Select Bibliography
Index
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