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Thursday, 26 April  2001


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After Milosevic A Practical Agenda for Lasting Balkans Peace

ICG Balkans Report No.108

Slobodan Milosevic is gone, but he has left in the Balkans a  bitter legacy 
of death, destruction and distrust, and the potential for renewed conflict 
remains dangerously high. It is vital that there be forward-looking 
and  comprehensive action by the international community to address the 
continuing  sources of tension. ICGs new 350-page report is a comprehensive 
and up-to-date  attempt to map a realistic agenda for achieving lasting 
peace in the Balkans.  The focus is on accelerating political and 
institutional reform, and addressing   sooner rather than later  the 
difficult remaining issues of future and final  status, and minority 
rights, that keep holding back stability and economic  growth, especially 
in the troubled Yugoslav trio of Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo, and in 
Bosnia and Macedonia.


This report is built on five years of intensive field-based  analysis 
throughout the western Balkans. The policy ideas contained in it grow out 
of the experience gleaned in the course of writing 140 earlier 
Balkans  reports and briefing papers and discussing them with policy makers 
in the region  and around the world.  The complete text of the report may 
be downloaded in  pdf format from the ICG website www.crisisweb.org. 
The  report is also available at cost (US$ 15) in printed paperback book 
form. Click  here: www.crisisweb.org/projects/book.cfm  for ordering 
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