Introduction
Notes on terms, pronunciation, glossary and acronyms
Background
Map
Chapter 1: Serbia - When a dam breaks
1. The demographic battlefield
2. After the fall of Rankovic
3. The rising swell of nationalism
4. Milosevic mobilises
5. Lazar's curse: 'Whoever does not fight at Kosovo'
Chapter 2: Albanians in Kosovo
1. The Ottoman Empire
2. The First World War and the First Yugoslavia
3. The Second World War
4. A resistant culture
5. Tito's Yugoslavia
6.. Concessions but no republic
7. 1981 and afterwards
8. An afterword on Communism in Kosovo
Chapter 3: The turn to nonviolence
1. Miners defend autonomy
2. The Party crumbles
3. Organisation and pluralism
4. The Campaign to Reconcile Blood Feuds
5. Military realism
6. Nonviolence in Kosovo Albanian identity
Chapter 4: Two sovereignties
1. A Serbian recipe for Albanian 'separatism'
2. Wholesale dismissals
3. Police and paramilitary
4. The contest for legitimacy
5. The electoral boycott
6. International support
7. Independence: a non-negotiable goal?
Chapter 5: Parallel structures
1. Schools in struggle
2. Open but illegal
3. The University of Prishtina
4. Funding education
5. The lesson taught
6. Medical care
7. The media
8. Arts and sport
9. Economic survival
10. Politics 'as if'
11. A state-in-embryo
Chapter 6: Pointers to an alternative
1. A strategy of empowerment
2. Altering Serbian will
3. New impulses: women
4. New impulses: youth
5. The Dayton effect
6. Contacts with Serb oppositionists
7. The student movement of 1997--98
Chapter 7: When the World Takes Notice
1. Diplomacy: The failure of prevention
2. Options for negotiation
3. A civil society approach
4. The crisis erupts
5. OSCE - too little, too late
6. Nato bombs for credibility
Chapter 8: Reflections on civil resistance
1. The balance sheet on nonviolence in Kosovo
2. Power and will
3. Victim behaviour
3. Leader syndromes
4. Goals and processes
5. Civil resistance and conflict resolution
6. Early warning, civil resistance and small nations
Postscript: Pristina, October 1999
Notes
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Index
Howard Clark was a coordinator for War Resisters' International and embedded in civil peace initiatives in Kosovo throughout the 1990s. He is a founder of the Balkan Peace Team, and the author of People Power (Pluto, 2009).
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