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Promoting Minority Rights in Kosovo and Bosnia-Herezegovina
Preventing violence while achieving full civil and political rights for minorities living in post-conflict environments is a challenge. It depends on inclusion, trust, and international support of newly established democratic institutions. A workable outcome also is in the interest of international donor and peace-keeping organizations and countries because support for these external involvements cannot be sustained for long.
Fri Jun 15 2012
Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina have similar socio-political environments, which emerged from inter-ethnic violence and warfare after the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Both countries continue to be guided by international state-building efforts (with heavy involvement from the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO) and seek the civil and political integration of minorities.