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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 07/04
After Milosevic: A Practical Agenda for Lasting Balkans Peace
April 2001
Abstract
Slobodan Milosevic has gone, but he has left behind him in the Balkans a bitter legacy of death, destruction and distrust. His democratic overthrow was a watershed, but the potential for renewed conflict in the region remains dangerously high, and it is vital that there be forward - looking and comprehensive action by the international community to address the continuing sources of underlying tension.
Across the Balkans, security and stability continue to be undercut by lingering nationalism, fragile and unresponsive government institutions, underperforming economies, undelivered justice and the issue of unreturned refugees. Breaking the cycle of violence in the region will require shattering the hold on power of narrow and often antidemocratic political elites, and accelerating difficult transitions to lasting political and economic reform .
