This new site from the World Bank and European Commission addresses the difficult task of rebuilding Kosovo and the neighboring countries affected by the crisis. While technically under construction, the site offers a number of resources useful to researchers, policy makers, and the interested public. These include several main documents, key speeches and statements, press releases, and brief...

Released on 1999 December 6, two new human rights reports from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) document extensive human rights violations in Kosovo. This page provides access to the reports, a background paper, and a press release. Totalling more than 900 pages, the reports reveal human rights abuses on both sides of the conflict. The first report "presents...

Kosovo has certainly been in the news quite a bit as of late, as it declared its independence from Serbia in February 2008. Many people may be craving more information and thoughtful commentary on this new country, and they would do well to turn to this helpful site. Created by staff members at the Guardian, the site contains up-to-date news pieces on the country, along with long-form...

Each week, this Website posts the most recent news stories from the Washington Post relating to issues in the Balkans. Currently, 20 articles published in the last week are available. In addition, the site offers background reports that fill in political and cultural history necessary to understanding current conditions; timelines of events; a who's who of key figures in the region; maps that...

Steven Enich was a Serbian-American lawyer who practiced primarily in Wisconsin for many decades. He was also quite the photographer, specializing in photographs of buildings with great significance to the Serbian Orthodox community. He made a number of visits to the former Yugoslavia to do just that and he amassed over 5,000 slides. After he passed in 2004, his widow donated much of his work to...