International influences on the mobilisation of the violence in Kosovo and Macedonia

Lyon, Alynna (author)

The recent history of multilateral interventions in ethnic conflicts paints a mixed picture of success. In the ashes of Kosovo, we find an excellent opportunity to evaluate the role international actors play in containing violence. At first glance, North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) involvement appeared to be treading in new humanitarian waters - an international effort to prevent human suffering. However, since NATOs initial commitment violence continues and has spilled into neighbouring Macedonia. This article examines why the peacekeepers were unable to stop the violence. This work applied a modified resource mobilisation model to explore the relationship between NATO's Kosovo Force (KFOR) and the ethnic-Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and its sister group in Macedonia. Through the lenses of the model, the paper finds that the war NATO fought over human rights did not bring peace and, after three years, the peacekeeping operation has failed to contain contentious ethnic-based violence. The operation did not address the primary components of mobilisation and unconsciously contributed to the KLA's retaliatory violence.

• Language: English
• Keywords: mobilizacija etničnega nasilja, Kosovo, krize, Makedonija, ohranjanje miru, NATO, Osvobodilna vojska Kosova
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2002
• Number of pages: Str. 275-294, 327, 330
• Numbering: Vol. 5, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-135806
• UDC: 327(292.464)
• ISSN on article: 1408-6980
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8486989
• Publication date in RUL: 30.03.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of international relations and development
• Shortened title: J. int. relat. & dev.
• Publisher: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre of International Relations
• ISSN: 1408-6980
• COBISS.SI-ID: 76065792

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Mednarodni vplivi na mobilizacijo nasilja na Kosovu in v Makedoniji

Abstract

Novejša zgodovina multilateralnih intervencij v etnične konflikte razkriva mešano podobo o uspehu. Ruševine Kosova nam npr. ponujajo možnost kritičnega ovrednotenja vloge mednarodnih akterjev pri obvladovanju nasilja. Na prvi pogled se zdi, da intervencija Organizacije severnoatlantskega sporazuma (Nato) izhaja iz novih humanitarnih vzgibov gre za mednarodno prizadevanje preprečiti človeško trpljenje. Vendar pa se je po izpolnitvi Natovih prvotnih obvez nasilje nadaljevalo in razširilo še v sosedno Makedonijo. Članek tako proučuje, zakaj pripadniki mirovnih sil niso bili sposobni zaustaviti nasilja. Avtorica uporablja modificirani model mobilizacije virov, s katerim proučuje odnos med Natovimi silami na Kosovu (KFOR) ter etnično-albansko Osvobodilno vojsko Kosova (OVK) in njeno sestrsko organizacijo v Makedoniji. S pomočjo modela tako ugotavlja, da vojna, v katero se je Nato vpletel v imenu človekovih pravic, ni pripeljala do želenega miru in da je po treh letih mirovna operacija spodletela pri omejevanju medetičnega nasilja. Mirovna operacija se ni soočila s temeljnimi komponentami mobilizacije in je nezavedno prispevala tudi k povračilnemu nasilju s strani OVK.