Due to the abundance of misfortunate circumstances surrounding us;
the conflicts and bloodshed we seem to have found ourselves in the midst of;
due to application of force in the form of air raids, we, AEGEE Beograd,
feel obliged to react by putting forward our stand.

         Nobody is suffering the consequences of this conflict to the extent
that the people living here do, whether they are Serbian or Albanian. As is
always the case, those affected most are the innocent ones - they lose their
lives and the lives of those dearest to them, lose all they have. Thousands
of people - again, both Serbian and Albanian - remain homeless, scattered
around Serbia, Montenegro and Albania, forced to seek sanctuary, and live on
humanitarian aid arriving from Belgrade. The area bearing consequences is
certainly much wider than Kosovo itself.

         Many people throughout Serbia lost their loved ones. Some fell prey
to the cruising missiles, some were taken hostages by terrorists, and were
never recovered. Nevertheless, these same people are willing to do all they
can to help all those in need.

         Conflicts and anguish are surely the most disastrous reasons that
the people in this region became entangled in dreadful economic and
political crises, and on the verge of material existence. For, while the
innocent are paying the debts, the state elite is sitting in the lap of
luxury - on their account.

         It seems futile and needless to explain the uselessness of bloody
clashes on the threshold of the 21st century, but, we have already come to
that, they should be ceased immediately, and that is clear. However, it
would be paradoxical to do so by the demonstration of force. At a time when
diplomacy is the basic means of 'warfare' in Europe, any application of
force deserves harsh condemnation.

         Realizing  the decision to strike from air on the territory of a
sovereign state, such as is FR Yugoslavia represents a direct breach of the
charter of the UN; nothing else but aggression merely for the purpose of
asserting power and testing the latest military contraptions, and all under
the disguise of the supposed aspiration for the negotiations to begin.

         Precisely for this reason, the desire of the 'diplomats' from
certain European countries to apply force is absolutely unjustifiable. For,
as it always turns out, those who pay are only the inculpable ones. Even
more hardships, bloodshed, more casualties and shattered homes, new
processions of refugees and the devastated land - will be the outcome of the
'demonstration of might' and 'solution of the humanitarian catastrophe by
the means of the latest rocket-systems'.

         On the other hand, the military intervention of the NATO forces will
only assist Milosevic in his final blow to this little seed of democracy and
freedom we managed to preserve (particularly the media) as well as in
winning over the majority of people again. The blame for the accumulated
economic and social problems will be imposed on the West, whereas we know
that they stem from Milosevic's refusal to begin the reformative process of
democratization and privatization. At the same time, the state media will
easily be able to spread hatred and 'europhobia' among the common people.

         In addition to this, Milosevic will take advantage of the country's
jeopardized position and the threat of war to 'purify' the state, above all
from the free media, and to deal with all those having different opinions.
Among those would be NGOs', Yugoslavia's AEGEE included. The military
intervention would be a cover-up for the formal introduction of a permanent
totalitarian regime. With everything mentioned above, we would end up with
another Iraq, which would be not only a tragedy for the people of this
country, but also a enduring source of instability in the region.

         The only way of preventing these catastrophical consequences lies in
mediation, discussion, diplomacy and exertion of serious political pressure
on BOTH sides to start negotiations, unconditionally, and as soon as
possible, in order to solve the most urgent problems (such as avoiding the
humanitarian catastrophe, which is the most commonly cited reason for the
NATO intervention). For - power induces nothing but torment and suffering!

         Due to everything stated here, we request that AEGEE Europe come out
with an official statement and give its vote against the military
intervention.


         AEGEE Beograd

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Macedonian PM Says Kosovo Refugees Major Problem

Reuters
25-MAR-99

SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonian Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski
said Thursday some 20,000 ethnic Albanian refugees who had poured in
from Kosovo were too big a burden and called for urgent help from the
United States and the European Union.

"If responsibility for the humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo rests on
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic then the spillover of this
catastrophe here is the responsibility of the U.S. and the EU,"
Georgievski told a news conference.

His comments came as NATO prepared for further air strikes against
Yugoslav targets and amid Serb accusations that NATO forces stationed
in Macedonia took part in the start of the offensive Wednesday.

Georgievski said NATO's 10,000-strong force provided Macedonia with
a protective umbrella against possible Serb attacks but admitted that its
presence had fueled anti-American sentiments among the population
fearing Belgrade reprisals.

"At this moment the two biggest problems are the refugees and the
anti-American and anti-NATO feelings emerging among the
Macedonian public," he said.

About 1,500 people people gathered outside the American embassy in
Skopje chanting slogans against the NATO action and waving
Macedonian and Yugoslav flags.

Some demonstrators burned the U.S. flag and hurled stones at the
embassy building. Police units at the site did not intervene.

The demonstrators then marched to the Alejsandar Palace hotel where
most observers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe and the foreign media are staying.

They stoned four cars belonging to international aid agencies and later
returned to the American Embassy where they burned three cars with
diplomatic plates and threw stones at the building, smashing some
windows.

Riot police chased away some demonstrators.

Macedonia, just across the border with Kosovo, denied a Yugoslav
allegation it had been used for the NATO air strikes.

NATO plans to move its troops from Macedonia into Kosovo to
implement a Western powers peace accord if Belgrade agrees to sign it.
The accord has already been endorsed by Kosovo's ethnic Albanians.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Muslims from neighboring Yugoslavia's
western province of Sanjak arrived in Sarajevo, fleeing into Bosnia from
their home country following NATO's air strikes, witnesses said.

They arrived at Sarajevo bus station in dozens of buses, many of them
planning to seek shelter with relatives in the city, now mainly populated
by Muslims.

Some of them expressed concern over possible Serb retaliation because of
the West's military action aimed at halting a Serb offensive against
ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo.

           Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited.All rights reserved.


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I got this email:


PRESS RELEASE
March 24, 1999
For more information contact:
Glenn Ruga at 413-586-6450


The following statement was issued today by Friends of Bosnia in support
of air strikes against Serbian military targets


HADLEY, MA -- Friends of Bosnia strongly endorses the decision by the
United
States and its NATO allies to take military action against
ultranationalist
Serb forces to prevent further massacres of Kosovar civilians in the
Serbian
province of Kosovo.

The Milosevic regime has acted with impunity for the past ten years:
imposing
an oppressive rule over Kosovar Albanians, committing war crimes including
genocide against the Bosnian people, and now turning its military forces
and
heavy weaponry against the Kosovar civilians in an all-out assault.
Friends of Bosnia and other concerned citizen groups have long maintained
that
the surest way to establish stability in the Balkans is to stop the
genocidal
tactics of Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic.

We feel that saving thousands of lives from a possible genocide,
thwarting the
growth of a fascist and ultranationalist regime, and protecting our
country’s
critical interest in European stability are legitimate and ethical foreign
policy objectives, and we support the use of U.S. troops in achieving
these
ends.  Friends of Bosnia has worked for many years to expose the dangers
of
the Milosevic regime, and we feel the current military response is (and
has
been) the only appropriate action to effectively oppose such a threat.

We applaud the courage of U.S. officials in leading this campaign, and
hope
their decisions reflect a policy based on the principles of human rights
and
the pursuit of justice, and a strategic plan for achieving long-term
peace in
the region.

For nine years, the Serb government has oppressed the Kosovar Albanian
people,
denying their civil, constitutional and human rights, during which time
the
Kosovar Albanians deliberately chose a path of nonviolent resistance.
Lacking
support and recognition from western powers to help head off a violent
crackdown by the Milosevic regime, the Kosovar Albanians only recently
turned
to organized armed resistance.  The current escalation by Serb forces
into a
full scale assault against the Kosovo Liberation Army, as well as
civilians,
was predictable and, sadly, preventable.  Once again, the world will have
a
clear view of atrocities and unspeakable suffering caused by the Serb
ultranationalists against an untold number of noncombatants, women and
children--crimes that, hopefully, our government is now committed to
ending.





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47 East Street
Hadley, MA 01035
Tel: 413-586-6450
Fax: 413-586-2415
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Americans confused about
                   Kosovo

                   March 25, 1999
                   Web posted at: 11:54 AM EST (1654 GMT)

                   As President Clinton sought the nation's
                   support for bombing in Kosovo, Americans
                   had a few questions: Is that in Europe? Or is
                   it the name of the local gas station?

                   And the conflict -- it has to do with the whole Yugoslavia
thing, right?

                   Many Americans weren't clear on the basics as American B-52
and B-2
                   bombers joined NATO airstrikes Wednesday on Serb targets in
the
                   separatist-minded province. The bombings were the top story of
the day,
                   with news outlets supplying maps and experts and context.

                   All of which seems very necessary.

                   "It's a civil war? Are we trying to prevent it, is that what
we're trying to do?"
                   asked Matt Propeck, 17, a Portland, Oregon, high school
student who was
                   shopping during his spring break. Propeck didn't know where
Kosovo is.

                   Mark Nieds, 33, struggled to locate Kosovo on a map, but
quickly pointed
                   to the right spot after a map flashed on the television news
at The
                   Newsroom, a downtown Chicago bar. He was asked about the
reasons for
                   the bombings.

                   "Ethnic cleansing is my understanding of it all," Nieds
answered. "I don't
                   really understand the whole political situation behind it."

                   Across the country, many people admitted they needed a
refresher course
                   on the conflict in Kosovo that has killed more than 2,000
people and left
                   over 400,000 homeless.

                   Mike Rahn, a 25-year-old businessman on his lunch break at the
Arizona
                   Center mall in Phoenix, said soon after the attacks began:
"What is it -- the
                   Serbs and who?"

                   That's exactly what Clinton expected when he made his case in
an address
                   Wednesday night, laying out the basic geography and history of
the troubled
                   Balkan region. He even referred to a colorful map with arrows.

                   His sales pitch was appreciated by Theresa Whetrow, a
32-year-old Los
                   Angeles paralegal who watched the speech at the Grand Sports
Bar. "I
                   hadn't been sure where Kosovo was, and he did a good job of
helping me
                   to understand," Whetrow said.

                   Not knowing the difference between a Serb and an ethnic
Albanian didn't
                   stop people from having strong opinions about the bombings.

                   James Matthews, 40, an electric motor salesman from Wake
Forest, North
                   Carolina, knew Kosovo is "somewhere in Europe." But he's sure
the strife
                   there needs to be stopped.

                   "I understand we're doing the right thing, because killing
innocent people isn't
                   right," he said, scratching his dog and sipping a beer in his
living room. "And
                   I think it's up to the world governments -- NATO -- to do
something."

                   Some Americans, of course, are very familiar with the bitter
struggle
                   between Serb-led Yugoslavia, which is predominantly Orthodox
Christian,
                   and the largely Muslim Albanian separatists. People like Judy
Cook, 52,
                   who owns a Phoenix coffee shop.

                   "They've been fighting the same war for hundreds of years,"
she said. "I don't
                   know if (U.S. intervention) will do any good. The war will go
on and on. ...
                   It's a religious war just like the Irish and in the Middle
East."

                   A CBS News poll released Thursday morning suggested Americans
are
                   divided on U.S. military involvement. The poll found 50
percent in favor of
                   the airstrikes, 30 percent against and 20 percent unsure. Two
polls released
                   Tuesday showed Americans were almost perfectly split -- half
in favor and
                   half against.

                   Passers-by who stood in the rain to watch Clinton on a huge
television
                   screen in New York City's Times Square represented that split.

                   "I don't see that we have a really clear goal. And, I don't
see any exit
                   strategy," said Jo Beth Klas, 45, in town on business from
Bedford, Texas.

                   Lewis Thompson, a singer and comedian from New York, was on
his way
                   to see friends when he stopped to watch the president and read
his words in
                   closed-captioned subtitles.

                   "It's very scary getting into war ... but this time, if we
don't get involved and
                   help out with NATO everybody loses," he said as crowds hurried
along,
                   oblivious to the speech. "It's a huge shame that so many walk
by. They don't
                   seem to realize history is being made."

                   Kate Randolph, a 20-year-old student at Evergreen State
College in
                   Olympia, Washington, knew the attack was important -- it just
took a
                   minute. Asked where Kosovo was, she said she thought a
reporter was
                   asking for directions "to a gas station or something."

                   But once it was explained that NATO was bombing Yugoslavia,
her
                   reaction changed.

                   "No way!" she said. "I'm definitely not as aware of political
events as I'd like
                   to be, but I usually know what's going on. With this, I'm
totally clueless."

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-Headquoter of Yugoslav Army reported that the outcome of NATO attacks is:
10 killed and 39 wounded.

-2 more policemen were killed yesterday in UCK attack.

-It's 20.20 while I'm writing this. Belgrade goes to shelters since we got
the alarm again and information that big group of NATO bombarders has
entered Yugoslavia and it's on a way to Belgrade at the moment. (Till now
Most of the attacks were dyrected to targets in Belgrade - capital of
Serbia with 2.5 million inhabitants. Beside military targets , couple of
civilian objects were destroyed; for example three schools in suburbia
Rakovica)

-Belgrade "muftija"(bishop of Muslims in Serbia) Hamdija Jusufspahic asked
MISTER Clinton to cease with attacks and not to"cover it's shame by
attacking souveren country", and asked Albanians from Kosovo to be more
carefull and not to enter the fights wich could be disastrous for them.
"Americans are ot our friends. Remember what have they done to Muslims in
Somalia, Iraque, Palestina... They are not friends of Muslims. THey want to
abuse you as a "meet for cannons" for their own goals"!

-Predrag Mijatovic, Dragan Stojkovic, and Dejan Savicevic initiated action
which was accepted by all the Yugoslav football players who plays in clubs
all  over the world: not to play whil NATO strikes last.

-Vlade Divac, basketball player (Sacramento Kings) said that he is very
proud to be Serbian at this hard moments for the country, and he protested
aginst NATO strikes. Being asked if he is loyal to president Milosevic, he
has clearly announced that this is no issue about  Milosevic but about the
destiny of whole Serbian people.

-Finally I'm finishing this mail at 21.10. 20 minutes ago four strong
detonation came from Batajnica (suburbia of Belgrade) and we got the news
that Pristina was attacked at the same time...

Misa
P.S. I'll be very greatfull if somebody could send me any information which
she/he heard about what are the next targets, how long is it gonna last...
And especially what was happening at Kosovo during this day.(Everyone is
silent about it)
Thanks in advance. And thank you all once again for the mails and
information you have sent till now.


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Zidas Daskalovski wrote:

> it is interesting site, Kosovo articles included

Here is the proper URL:

http://www.eurobalkans.co.yu/


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Zidas Daskalovski wrote:

> it is interesting site, Kosovo articles included
>
>

Zidas,

Your URL you listed did not work


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Ok. Guys,

Sorry for sending email about a conference in a time when
'imperialist powers' are bombing Yugoslavia but, hey, life goes on.....
Zh.






  BETWEEN THE BLOC AND THE HARD PLACE:
         Moving towards Europe in Post-Communist States?
                         6-7 November 1999

The research Students of the School of Slavonic and East European
Studies, with the support of the School's academic staff, are organising
and interdisciplinary conference which, coinciding with a new era if
expansion for the European Union, aims to contribute to a wide-ranging
analysis of the competing legacies the post-communist states must contend
with, and of the relative weight their traditions and aspirations carry
in each of these countries.

Papers are being called for in the following areas and broadly addressing
these sub-topics:

POLITICS:       -"East", "West", or "Third way"?
                 -Political Culture and Civil Society
                 -Political Leadership and the Will to Reform

ECONOMICS:      -Macroeconomic stabilisation and the "euro"
                 -Can the Emerging Markets Compete in Europe

SOCIOLOGY:      -Migration and Social Imbalances in Europe
                 -Women in the Post-Communist World
                 -National Identity and the New European Order

HISTORY/
HISTORIOGRAPHY  -Rewriting "The West" in Central and East European History
                 -Historical Borders and "Europeanisation",
&CULTURE        -Pan-European Culture: Shared Heritage or Wishful Construct?
                 -Can Eastern Europe Turn its Back on the Recent Past?
                 -National Identity in the Global Village

For more inforamtion and the submission of papers and abstracts please
contact:

Roman Zyla or Elizabeth Skomp at:

romanzyla1@...

or write to:

Postgraduate Research Conference
c/o Department of Social Sciences
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
University of London
Senate House
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London WC1E 7HU
UK

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it is interesting site, Kosovo articles included


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http://www.transnational.org/links/yu_alb.html


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Insecuring Macedonia
(The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, Lund, Sweden)
TFF PressInfo 59

March 18, 1999

"NATO's build-up in Macedonia is incredible, and goes virtually unnoticed -
except in that country. The Macedonian Parliament has not even discussed the
deployment of more than 12.000 heavily armed troops and NATO bars journalists
from investigating what is going on. NATO is now stronger than the country's
own defence. It took the international community, read OSCE, 5 months to get
1500 civilian monitors into Kosovo, but it took only a few weeks to get the
military build-up underway in Macedonia. When does some one investigate how
this happened or who pays for this and the NATO build-up around Yugoslavia? Or
ask what Macedonian Prime Minister Ljupco Geogievski was promised by U.S.
Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, when the had breakfast recently in
Washington?" - says Jan Oberg, TFF's director and co-founder who has just
visited the country.

"Here is another reasonably relevant question: Since Christopher Hill, the
main author of the Kosovo Agreement on the table in Paris and the diplomat who
prepared the ground for those talks, is also the U.S. ambassador to Macedonia,
did he calculate with this involvement of Macedonia and, if so, did he prepare
Macedonian decision-makers in advance - or is this build-up something that has
just unfolded as the things progressed? Is there any reasons for circumventing
normal politeness and democratic decision-making by host-nation?

Why is NATO all over Macedonia, that already troubled and quite fragile state?
For two reasons, namely a) to "extract" OSCE verifiers from Kosovo who can't
sit there if NATO decides to bomb Yugoslavia, and b) serve as a base for and
reinforcement of the NATO forces stipulated in the Paris Kosovo document.
Yugoslavia considers the extraction force a potential aggressor. It was NOT
mentioned in the October 1998 agreement between Yugoslav President Milosevic
and U.S. ambassador Richard Holbrooke - or so we assume since that agreement
has not been made public.

The Yugoslav military and political leadership now perceive Macedonia as
hosting forces aimed at aggression on Yugoslav territory - friends of your
enemies being your enemies too. German forces are strongly represented and
bring heavy equipment, and it is the first time they may get into regular
warfare and not peacekeeping. Not surprisingly, Yugoslavs conscious of history
will be reminded of last time Germany came to that region (1941).

Should NATO bomb Yugoslavia it can NOT be excluded that the Yugoslavs will
retaliate against NATO troops where they are nearest, namely in Macedonia,
e.g. in Kumanovo where, they are co-located with UN Blue Helmets. Thus,
paradoxically, countries participating in bombing raids, such as Norway and
Denmark, indirectly jeopardize the safety of their own UN peacekeepers in the
region - unless they are "extracted" too. Do politicians in these countries
not see the connection?

The new coalition government in Macedonia is anything but experienced and
cohesive. Two of the three coalition partners are traditional "extremist"
parties, the Macedonian VMRO and the Albanian DPA. The third is a newly formed
party, the Democratic Alternative, DA. This government's first foreign policy
move was to recognise Taiwan in order to obtain a 1 billion US $ economic deal
- that has not materialized yet - and thereby antagonize China (see below).

Macedonia IS a fragile country, economically constitutionally and in terms of
unresolved problems in the relations between the majority Macedonians and the
25-30 per cent Albanian citizens. It has serious unresolved problems in the
fields of education and in relation to its name and relations with its
neighbours. The economy is a mixture of a petty market and pavement/pizza
economy, black markets and far too few productive investments, profits run
low, debts high. Recently when the three coalition partners were to evaluate
the first 100 days, the Albanian DPA was not present. Be this as it may, it is
not the least due to its prudent, gentleman-like president Kiro Gligorov, to
the small but effective OSCE mission and the highly respected UN mission -
that there has been some stability in Macedonia compared with other parts of
ex-Yugoslavia. Will there in the future?

Macedonia's ability to receive refugees is limited. It's contingency planning
covers 20,000. If things go really wrong in Kosovo, at least ten times more
may run away. To where? Well, in contrast to last year, economic crisis-ridden
Montenegro may close its border (it took 50,000 equivalent to 10 pct of its
own people). No Serb or Albanian will run to Albania if they can avoid it. So
Macedonia is where most will seek safety. Some 7000-8000 have already done
so.Should it approach 100,000 or 200,000 the changing ethnic balance of the
country and the general chaos would result in turmoil and breakdown. In
addition, 12,000 soldiers now occupy hotels, schools, barracks and even
hospitals - places that one would believe would be desperately needed should
refugees flow into the country.

So, all in all the government seems to follow the policy of the ostrich,
hoping everything will be fine in Kosovo, that money will come from Taiwan and
security from NATO. It can hardly be called leadership. It's a risky
substitute for having one's own policies and ideas - and it bodes ill for its
future," says Dr. Oberg who has conducted hundreds of interviews at all levels
and with all communities over the last six years during many missions to
Macedonia.

"The new NATO deployment amounts to the destruction of the only - and
successful - example of preventive diplomacy, namely the UN peacekeeping
mission, UNPREDEP. It has happened in two ways: Macedonia's new government
recognized Taiwan and, thus, provoked China which recently vetoed the
extension of UNPREDEP in the Security Council. One may ask whether it was a
calculated risk - in order to get the UN out and NATO in - and to get 1 US $
bn? Was the Macedonian government surprised by the Chinese veto?

So multilateral arrangements were replaced by bilateral ones and regional
security concerns grossly ignored. There is no doubt that Western nations, the
U.S. in particular, could have reasons to get rid of the UN, as they did in
Croatia, Bosnia and elsewhere - to present NATO as THE peacekeeper. Thus, "UN"
will, in this field, stand for United NATOs. The question is whether this was
a responsible act by China when seen in the longer perspective?

Macedonia can not get into NATO soon, but it can let NATO into Macedonia. The
price? Give up every independent idea about economic politics, security
politics and foreign politics and adapt completely to the "international
community." The U.S. and NATO "forgot" to ask the host, including President
Gligorov, what the Macedonians thought about all this. It was never taken up
in the Macedonian parliament. In short, a lesson for all in Western
democracy...

In a long-term perspective, we are now witnessing the third round of Western-
aided destruction of former Yugoslavia. First, there were the violence in
Slovenia and Croatia; then Bosnia-Hercegovina and now present
Yugoslavia/Kosovo threatening to not spill over into but drag Macedonia down
in international warfare. In all cases, one or more actors were armed by
Western powers, in all cases the UN was squeezed out and NATO came in, in all
cases violence was not prevented in time and everywhere some peace plan was
introduced that secured Western control and permit use of unlimited force "if
necessary" - and in all cases ordinary citizens are the main victims while all
the Presidents from 1991 remain on the top. It begins to look like a pattern,
a strategy. Perhaps, after all, there WAS a plan somewhere?

© TFF 1999
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but please retain the source.

The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research
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Misa Djurkovic wrote:

> It's 4.00 in the morning and Belgrade has still been attacked. Strong
> detonations are coming from the suburbias.
> MOst of the citizens are in a cold shelters with it's children. Temperature
> is 5 degrees...
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Misa Djurkovic wrote:

> It's 4.00 in the morning and Belgrade has still been attacked. Strong
> detonations are coming from the suburbias.
> MOst of the citizens are in a cold shelters with it's children. Temperature
> is 5 degrees...

Dear Misa, all others in Yugoslavia,

This is very sad.  Many of us who are Orthodox in the United States have been
praying for one half year for no bombing of Serbia ever since the first threats
to bomb started.  On the news it was related that the bombing will last about
three weeks.

Because the United States and other members of NATO are unwilling to cause high
troop losses that that would occur by sending in military to stop the conflict
in Kosovo, the more acceptable losses of some airplane pilots have been chosen
in their stead to stop the conflict in Kosovo.

One can only pray that negotiation is chosen by Yugoslavia so that live can be
saved.

Prayer works,

Galina

Everyone might be interested in the statement of the Serbian Patriarchate :

The Holy Synod of Bishops
of the Serbian Orthodox Church
On NATO Bombing

The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, meeting
at the Patriarchate on March 23, 1999, issued the following public
statement regarding the threats over Kosovo and Metohija and the
threatened bombing of Serbia and Yugoslavia:

Human experience, both old and new and most recently in the territory
of the former Yugoslavia, shows that war and violence, particularly
inter-ethnic, leaves in its wake only chaos and general misery, with
long-lasting spiritual, moral and social consequences and unhealed
wounds.

Aware of this, in the name of God we demand and beseech that all
conflict in Kosovo and Metohija immediately cease, and that the
problems there be resolved exclusively by peaceful and political
means. The way of non-violence and cooperation is the only way
blessed by God in agreement with human and divine moral law and
experience. Deeply concerned about the threatened Serbian cradle of
Kosovo and Metohija and for all those who live there, and especially
by the terrible threats of the world's armed forced to bomb our
Homeland, we would remind the responsible leaders of the
international organizations that evil in Kosovo or anywhere else cannot
be uprooted by even greater and more immoral evil; the bombing of
one small but honorable European people. We cannot believe that the
international organizations have become so incapable of devising ways
for negotiation and human agreement that they must resort to ways
which are dark and demeaning to human and national honor, ways
which employ great violence in order to prevent a lesser evil and
violence.

We pray the Lord of peace, the living and true God, in whose hands are
judgement and justice, to give to all in Kosovo and Metohija, and
throughout our Homeland and throughout the world, peace, justice,
security in freedom, and to the powerful of the world understanding
and wisdom.

>From the Office of the Holy Assembly of Bishops
Belgrade
23 March 1999

translation by Fr. Rade Merick <radmerk@...>





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It's 4.00 in the morning and Belgrade has still been attacked. Strong
detonations are coming from the suburbias.
MOst of the citizens are in a cold shelters with it's children. Temperature
is 5 degrees...


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> From: Transnational Foundation TFF <tff@...>
> To: TFF PressInfo # 60 <tff@...>
> Subject: Bombings - Incompatible With Humanitarian Concerns
> Date: 24 March 1999 23:22
>
>
>
> P r e s s I n f o  # 6 0
>
>
> B O M B I N G S   -   I N C O M P A T I B L E   W I T H
>
> H U M A N I T A R I A N   C O N C E R N S
>
>
> March 24, 1999 23.00
>
>
>
> "NATO's unwise, counterproductive and non-legal bombing of sovereign
> Yugoslavia is justified by President Bill Clinton, EU and other Western
> leaders and media with reference to humanitarian concerns. Supposedly air
> strikes serve to stop ethnic cleansing, future massacres, refugee flows,
> and prevent innocent children and women from being killed. Diplomatically
> expressed, this comes from the marketing department. Bombings will to
> produce what it purports to prevent," says Dr. Jan Oberg, TFF's director,
> right after the bombing campaign has started. According to Oberg, this
> argument lacks credibility for the following reasons:
>
>
> NO VIOLENCE-PREVENTION
> Why did the West do absolutely nothing before this crisis became violent?
> There were many opportunities for a negotiated solutions. TFF, for
> instance, has suggested a variety of options since 1992 that could have
> prevented violence and the killing we've seen the last year. In no other
> conflict has there been so many early warnings and so little preventive
> diplomacy. Kosovo's catastrophe was among the most predictable of all. It
> is intellectual nonsense that 'everything else has been tried and NATO
> bombings was the only option left.'
>
> HUMANITARIAN WORK MADE IMPOSSIBLE BY NATO THREATS
> The immediate consequence of the threats of NATO air strikes is that
OSCE's
> Verification mission had to be withdrawn and that almost all humanitarian
> organizations withdrew to protect their staff. More refugees are now
> running over the border to Macedonia. With fewer ears and eyes on the
> ground, its free for all sides - NATO included - to step up the killing.
>
> THIS WILL MAKE SERBS AND ALBANIANS HATE EACH OTHER (MORE)
> NATO bombings will be perceived as a punishment of Serbs and a clear
> support to Albanian hardliners. Serbs will feel that it was the Albanian
> side that called this hell upon them. Thus, the little hope we may have
had
> about Serbs and Albanians living peaceful together or as trustful
> neighbours in the foreseeable future, is now gone. Producing hate is the
> opposite of a humanitarian effort.
>
> MANY MORE DIE IN OTHER CONFLICTS, WITHOUT HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS
> The Kosovo war has caused the death of about 2.000 people during the last
> year. This is serious, every human life is sacred. However, the
> international community has chosen NOT to intervene in the following
when:
> 80.000 have been killed in Algeria; perhaps 10.000 in the
> Ethiopian-Eritrean war the last couple of weeks; 820,000 in Rwanda the
last
> five years; 1.500,000 in Sudan the last 15 years; more than 1 million
> people have died because of the Western sanctions against the Iraqi
people;
> perhaps as many as 500,000 have died in Burma since 1948.
>
> THE WORLD'S REAL HUMANITARIAN PROBLEMS ARE NOT ADDRESSED
> An estimated 100.000 people's die PER DAY, around the world - not in wars
> but because they lack the most basic such as water, clothes, shelter,
food,
> medicine. 100 mill people have no home; there are already some 40 million
> refugees; 70 Third World countries have lower standards of living today
> than 30 years ago; at least 800 million people go hungry to bed. In money
> terms, a fraction of the world's military expenditures could alleviate
most
> of that suffering.
>
> THERE IS ALWAYS MONEY FOR WEAPONS BUT NOT FOR HUMAN BEINGS
> The world's military expenditures - NATO making up most of it - equals
the
> combined income of the 50% poorest of the world's population. Pentagon
> alone spends 20 times more than the entire budget of the United Nations.
> And the UN - the world's most important humanitarian organization - is
> completely ignored in the Kosovo conflict and, these very days, forced
out
> of Macedonia. When will the media begin to ask what this type of
> 'peace'-making costs - and what we could do in terms of real relief and
> peace for a similar sum?
>
> THERE HAVE LONG BEEN LARGER HUMANITARIAN PROBLEMS IN YUGOSLAVIA
> 250.000 citizens are now displaced inside Kosovo or refugees in Macedonia
-
> about 10% of the Kosovo-Serbs and 10% of the Kosovo-Albanians. They
> certainly need help. But so do the 650.000 mostly Serb refugees
(according
> to UNHCR) who have fled from Croatia, Bosnia and elsewhere during the
> dissolution of ex-Yugoslavia, about half of them ethnically cleansed from
> Croatia in 1995. from Croatia. It's Europe's largest refugee problem -
> largely going unnoticed.
>
> SANCTIONS CREATE HUMANITARIAN PROBLEMS
> Why has the West upheld various types of sanctions against the people of
> Yugoslavia since 1991? The majority of citizens suffer one way or the
other
> from that, not the least the sick and the pensioners. They and everybody
> else will stand behind President Milosevic in this crisis.
>
> IS THIS RHETORIC AIMED TO CONVINCED WOMEN?
> All the 'soft' humanitarian coating of this type of militarist policies
is
> probably an attempt to  convince women, soldiers' and pilots' wives and
> mothers and the general do-good sentiment in the American public. But
will
> they still believe this when the casualty figures rise?
>
> Says Dr. Oberg: "Our thoughts go to all friends and colleagues of the
> foundation, Serbs, Albanians, Macedonians and others in all of the
region,
> innocent good-hearted people who are again to pay the price for
'politics'
> and power game by their own leaders and the international community's
> leaders. Citizens in NATO countries were not heard either. Thus, I draw
the
> following conclusion about this type of B-52 humanitarianism," says Dr.
> Oberg:
>
> 1) Humanitarian concerns is the rhetoric of the smiling Western
crocodile.
> It is either deliberate misinformation or a view based on incomplete
> analysis. There IS no global political will to do something about
> humanitarian problems where they really exist.
>
> 2) In Kosovo, we risk blowing up a low-casualty war to become a major war
> and creating a tenfold larger humanitarian catastrophe.
>
> 3) It seems the only humanitarian problems in which there is a political
> will to do something are those which seem fit for 'NATO treatment' - in
> short, it is faked.
>
> 4) What a wonderful world it would be if the world's most powerful
nation,
> its president and its allies WERE determined TO DO SOMETHING to alleviate
> suffering around the world.
>
> 5) Now the combination of their limited creativity, their unlimited
> cocksureness and overwhelming military power threatens to only  INCREASE
> the world's humanitarian problems."
>
>
> © TFF 1999
>
> You are welcome to reprint, copy, archive, quote from or re-post this
item,
> but please retain the source.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
>
> Dr. Jan Oberg
> Director, head of the TFF Conflict-Mitigation team
> to the Balkans and Georgia
>
> T F F
>
> Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research
> Vegagatan 25, S - 224 57 Lund, Sweden
> Phone +46-46-145909 (0900-1100)
> Fax +46-46-144512
> Email
> tff@...
> http://www.transnational.org
>
>
> _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
>
>

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End even more:
Kursumlija, Kraljevo, Uzice, Danilovgrad, Tivat, Prokuplje (more than 20
aims)...In Belgrade they bombbed plenty of INHABITED suburbias: Mladenovac,
Batajnica, Grocka, Sopot, Rakovica, Zarkovo(IN ZARKOVO THEY BOMBBED
MILITARY TECHNIACL INSTITUTE IN WHICH ARE SETTLED 600 FAMILIES, REFUGEES
FROM CROATIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) The whole Yugoslavia is burning
tonight
MOstly military objects and airports, but  also plenty of factories
(including the biggest car factory "Zastava" in Kragujevac)
Obviosly idea is to destroy the whole country.Yugoslavia is burning at the
moment!
Agression was done with misiles and with aiplanes (bombarders) which came
via Hungary, Croatia and Albania.
One bombarder and three misiles at Kosovo were destroyed.

Acording to independent sources (ANEM association) we got the information
that UCK (KLA) has started with strong attacks at Kosovo right after NATO
military agression!!!!! (near Kosovska Mitrovica, Drenica, Djakovica...)

I may tell you just one thing: no matter on all our internal problems and
on the way this maniac(S.M.) is destroying this country, at this moment the
whole Yugoslavia is united in one thing: the country is attacked and it has
to be defended!!!!!! (which was exactly what Milosevic needed).

Till now I don't have the information about dead and wounded people.
Misa
P.S. Unbiased NATO is protecting Human rights?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunatelly it seems more like playing hard strategic game, destroying
one state and one people and obusing another-Albanian (which already had
enormous loses; and I'm very, very affraid of and concerned about reaction
of serbian police and army tomorrow at Kosovo) I'm very affraid o for this
seems like the beggining of one huge mess at Balcans. I still don't have
the information but it will be very important to watch the development of
situation in :Macedonia (Albanian minority makes almost 30 %), in Republika
Srpska, in Bosnia,  Albania and especially news from Kosovo...


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First attacks:
PRISTINA,
PODGORICA,
KRAGUJEVAC,
NOVI SAD,
PANCEVO,and even
BELGRADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Till now...
It's 21.30
  Of course, without permission of United Nations!  Does anybody remembers
what was it "United Nations"?
So long
Misa



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>>How about deciding English as the language of this list.

Dear Altin, Dear All,

I think you may be referring to the inadvertent postings throughout he day
today.  My apologies to all the members of the list, I meant to send a personal
message to the person posting to the list, but I wound up replying to the list
instead.

Sorry :-)
Marijana


Marijana Trivunovic
COLPI
Nador u. 11, 4th floor
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Dear Florian, dear all,

How about deciding English as the language of this list.

Greetings,
Altin.

>>> "Florian Bieber" <Bieberf@...> 03/23/99 05:49PM >>>
Dear Members of the Balkan Academic Newsgroup:

I am glad to announce that within less than four days we are a group
with more than 25 subscribers, growning by the hour.

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Democracy & Diversity

The Eighth Annual
Summer Graduate Institute
Cracow, Poland
July 11 - July 31, 1999

We at TCDS are looking forward to welcoming another fifty junior scholars
from Eastern Europe, the U.S., and other parts of the world to our eighth
Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute in Cracow. At our castle
site, overlooking the Vistula, we offer an intensive three-week equivalent
of a full semester*s graduate study in the U.S., bringing an
interdisciplinary, comparative, and highly interactive approach to the
social, political, and cultural challenges of democracy and
democratization. The Institute is widely known as an intimate international
forum for lively but rigorous debate on the critical issues of democratic
life.

Our core faculty from the from New School University*s Graduate Faculty
will be joined this year by distinguished scholars and guest speakers from
Poland, Yugoslavia, Israel, and South Africa. In addition to our
ever-evolving seminars on citizenship, nationalism, and gender, we will
offer a new course this year on the role of media in a democratic society.
The Institute*s public policy workshop will also emphasize the use of media
and communications in policy development.

Upon completion of the Institute, U.S. graduate students receive full
course credits and non-U.S. participants receive certificates. But their
unique three-week experience does not end there. Because we encourage and
facilitate further participation in the ongoing activities of the
Transregional Center for Democratic Studies, alumni soon find that they
have become active members of a much broader transregional community of
open-minded scholars committed to strengthening civil society and bridging
the gap between academia and the *real world.* I hope you will consider
joining us.

Elzbieta Matynia
Director, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies


Curriculum
Sustaining Democracy
Professor David Plotke, Department of Political Science, Graduate Faculty
How can democratic practices and institutions be sustained? What do
political institutions contribute to democratic continuity? What views and
activities do citizens need to share for democratic politics to continue?
These questions need attention in both newer and more established
democracies. We will look at settings where democracy has been   maintained
and at settings where democratic practices have been destroyed or have
never emerged.

Media and DemocracyProfessor Jeffrey Goldfarb, Department of Sociology,
Graduate Faculty
In this course, the problems of sustaining a democratic public sphere in
the media age will be investigated. We will consider the relationships
among face to face deliberation, the printed word, and electronic media. We
will explore how different concepts of the public reveal the strengths and
weaknesses of the present state of democratic media-formed discourse. The
relationships between free associations, free speech, and free electoral
politics will be studied comparatively, as they are shaped through
commercial, state, or publicly supported and controlled media. Readings
will include the works of de Tocqueville, Arendt, Habermas, Chomsky, Said,
Baudrillard, Appadurai, Schudson and Postman.

Ethnos and Demos: Nation, Nationalism and Politics of Ethnic Conflict
Professor Shlomo Avineri, Dept. of Political Science, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel; and Ivan Vejvoda, Soros Foundation Yugoslavia
Whether defined as philosophical concept, ideology, attitude, or group's
state of mind, nationalism continues to be a major idee force of the last
two centuries, leading to successive reconfigurations of the world map. The
course will explore the multifaceted character of this key phenomenon of
modernity, especially the relationship between ethnos and demos, nationhood
and identity, and the ethnification of politics. Special attention will be
given to Central Europe, Israel, and the recent conflicts in the former
Yugoslavia.

Theories of Gender in Culture
Professor Ann Snitow, Committee on Gender Studies and Feminist Theory, New
School University
Now in its eighth year, this course surveys central debates about the role
gender plays in the shaping of both public and private lives. The readings
reflect the current process of redefinition going on in the field "gender
studies" and include a wide range of material from scholars and emerging
women's movements in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. This
summer we will also do some comparative analysis of the entry points that
are available for introducing a gender perspective into swiftly changing
regional configurations of thought and action.

Extra-Curricular Activities

o       Workshop: Policy, Democracy & Public Interest

o       Forum: Negotiated Transitions - Ten Years Later

o       Guest speakers: Czeslaw Milosz (Poet, 1980 Nobel Laureate in
Literature); Mary Simons (Professor of Political Science, University of
Cape Town); Adam Michnik (Political writer, editor-in-chief of Gazeta
Wyborcza); Jan Urban (editor-in-chief of Transitions).

o       Field Trips: Jagiellonian University, Auschwitz -Birkenau.

Why Cracow?
Cracow, the ancient capital of Poland, seat of the second oldest university
in Europe (1364), has been a center for scholarship and politics for many
centuries. It has traditionally served as a link between the cultures of
the East and the West. A city of Gothic convents, Renaissance arcades,
Baroque churches and Art Nouveau coffee houses, Cracow has always been an
intellectual and artistic center. As a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire,
19th century Cracow was closely associated with Vienna, the intellectual
and artistic avant-garde of the West. The famous sociologist Ludwig
Gumplowicz was a native of Cracow, and so were anthropologist Bronislaw
Malinowski and writer Joseph Conrad. At the turn of the century, Cracow
developed its own branches of Art Nouveau and Expressionism. After World
War II, the avant-garde tradition was continued by the Cracow School of
Painting, the theaters of Tadeusz Kantor, Andrzej Wajda, and Jerzy
Grotowski, and the music of Krzysztof Penderecki. Cracow is also home to
two Nobel laureates in literature, Czeslaw Milosz (1980) and Wislawa
Szymborska (1996).

Accommodations:
Przegorzaly Castle (just outside of Cracow), which is on a wooded hilltop
with a view of the Tatra Mountains, is easily reached from the city by
public transportation. The accommodations will be comfortable double rooms
with bath and telephone.

Facts about the Program:
All participating students must have completed undergraduate studies and
currently be enrolled in a graduate program. The classes at the Summer
Graduate Institute will be conducted four times a week, in morning and
afternoon sessions. All books and course materials are provided. One day
per week will be devoted to cultural programs, which will include
exploration of architectural and historical landmarks, visits to museums,
meetings with artists and political figures, and various field trips.

Participants from American Universities:
The cost of the Graduate Summer Institute is based on the summer 1999
Graduate Faculty tuition rate and includes full room and board. Travel
costs are not included. To receive an application form contact Cynthia
Mueller, Director of Admissions, Graduate Faculty, 65 Fifth Avenue, New
York, NY 10003. Tel: (212) 229-5710, (800) 523-5411 (from outside NYC),
Fax: (212) 989-7102.

Participants from Universities in East and Central Europe and other parts
of the world:
Interested junior faculty and doctoral students should send a letter which
includes the following information: full name, address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail address, educational background, degrees received,
institutional affiliation, and evidence of English language skills. Also
include one letter of recommendation and 1-2 page statement of your
educational goals and reasons for applying to the Institute. Mail, fax, or
e-mail these to: Ina Breuer, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies,
New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, Room 422, New York, NY
10003, Fax: (212) 229-5894.
E-mail:  BreuerI@....

Detailed information and highlights from previous Institutes is also
available on our website at http://www. newschool.edu/centers/tcds.   VHS
video cassettes of a documentary film of the 1996 Institute are available
in our New York office and at regional Soros Foundation offices.

For more information, please contact:
Ina Breuer, Transregional Center for Democratic Studies. Tel: (212)
229-5580 Fax: (212) 229-5894
E-mail: BreuerI@...

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Dear All,

Here is a conference....


ethnic@...

Preliminary Program of the International Conference "Diasporas and Ethnic
Migrants in 20th Century Europe" May 20-23, 1999

The conference will take place at three different locations:

Thursday, May 20, 1999
Juedisches Museum (?), Kochstrasse (not yet sure, might be changed to Rotes
Rathaus)

Friday, May 21, 1999
Rotes Rathaus, Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Saal (Room 338)

Saturday and Sunday, May 22/2, 1999
Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Senatssaal

Contact:
Rainer Ohliger/Rainer Munz
Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin
Lehrstuhl Bevolkerungswissenschaft
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin
T.: 030/2093-1937, -1918
Fax: 030/2093-1432
email: ethnic@...
http://www.demographie.de/ethnic


Thursday, May 20, 1999


16.00- 16.45: Judith Shuval (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Dynamics of
Diaspora: Theoretical Implications of Ambiguous Concepts

16.45-17.15: Coffee Break

17.15-19.15 Opening Discussion: Mixing and Unmixing Populations in 20th Century
Europe (1)

Chair: Rainer Ohliger (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Rainer Munz (Humboldt University, Berlin): Germany and its Ethnic and Other
Migrants: A Challenge to Nation and State.

Mirjana Morokvasic-Muller (University of Paris X, Nanterre): Mixing and Unmixing
of Population in the Yugoslav Territory in the 20th Century

Rogers Brubaker (University of California, Los Angeles): Accidental Diasporas
and External 'Homelands' in Europe: Past and Present

Anatoly Vishnevsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow): The Dissolution of the
Soviet Union, Ethnic Migration and the Problem of Diasporas

Moshe Semyonov (Tel Aviv University): Immigration and Ethnicity in Israel:
"Return", Diasporization, and Nation Building


19.15-21.00: Buffet


Friday, May 21, 1999

9.00-10.30: Forced Migration, Making Diasporas and the Nation-State (2)

Chair: Anatoly Vishnevsky (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

Philipp Ther (Free University Berlin): Forced Migration in Eastern and Central
Europe, 1912-1995

Anne de Tinguy (CERI, Paris): Ethnic Migration Following Political Changes in
Eastern and Central Europe: "Repatriation" or Privileged Immigration?

Kemal Karpat (University of Wisconsin, Madison): Migration, Ethnopolitics and
the Formation of Nation-States in South-eastern Europe and Israel

Gabriel Sheffer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Diasporas into Migrants -
Migrants into Diasporas

Arthur C. Helton (Open Society Institute, New York): What is Forced Migration?


10.30-11.00: Coffee Break

11.00-13.00: Ethnic Migration and Diasporization in the Aftermath of Empire:
Minorities and Ethnic Migrants in the Post-Soviet Successor States (3)

Chair: Anne de Tinguy (CERI, Paris)

Tim Heleniak (World Bank, Washington): The End of an Empire: Migration and the
Changing Nationality Composition of the Soviet Successor States

Natalya Kosmarskaya (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow): A New Perspective on
an Old problem: Post-Soviet Ethnic Migration and the Russian-Speakers' Position
in the NIS (The Case-Study of Kirghizia)

Moya Flynn (University of Birmingham): Returning Home? - Approaches to
Repatriation and Migrant Resettlement in Post-Soviet Russia

Bakhtior Islamov (Tashkent State Economic University, Tashkent): Ethnic
Migration in 20th Century Central Asia

Jacqueline McLaren (George Washington University, Washington): Citizenship in
the Former Soviet Union - Ethnic Minorities and Political Communities

11.00-13.00: Ethnic Migration and Diasporization in the Aftermath of Empire:
Minority Rights and Citizenship in the Baltic States (4)

Chair: Stefan Troebst (Universitat Leipzig)

Dovile Budryte (Europa Universitat Viadrina, Frankfurt/O./Old Dominion
University, Norfolk/VA:
Today's Politics and Yesterday's Embitterments: Ethnic Restructuring and its
Aftermath in The Baltic States

Wim van Meurs (Humboldt University, Berlin): Social Citizenship and
Non-Migration: The Immobility of the Russian Diaspora in the Baltics

Jekaterina Dorodnova (University of Latvia, Riga): Identity Formation of Russian
Speakers in Estonia and Latvia: Shifts Since 1991 and Implications for Social
Consolidation

Margit Sarv (Central European University, Budapest): Majority and Minority
Nationalism in Estonia

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-16.00: Failures and Successes in the Building of a Homeland: The Jewish
Diaspora and its Immigration to Israel (5)

Chair: Rogers Brubaker (University of California, Los Angeles)

Eva-Maria Stolberg (University of Bonn): Search for a Jewish Homeland:
Settlement Projects in the USSR in the 20s and 30s

Moshe Gat (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan): The Immigration of Iraqi Jews:
Expulsion, Deliverance, or the Solution to an Internal Problem

William Berthomiere (University of Poitiers): Integration and Social Dynamic of
Ethnic Migrants: Jews from the Former Soviet Union in Israel

William Safran (University of Colorado, Boulder): The End of Normality: The
Diasporization of Israel

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break


16.30-18.00: Expulsion - Emigration - Repatriation: German Diasporas Since 1945
(6)

Chair: N.N.

Pavel Polian (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow): Forced Migrations of Ethnic
Germans from Eastern Europe to the USSR and Their Repatriation

Zoran Janjetovic (University of Belgrade): The Disappearance of Ethnic Germans
from Yugoslavia: Expulsion or Emigration?

Darren Hall (University of Texas at Austin): From Bonn to Berlin by Way of
Moscow: The Effect of Return Migration on Homeland Nationalism in Germany

Daniel Levy (Columbia University, New York): The Politicization of Ethnic German
Immigrants: The Transformation of National Priorities

20.00: Dinner


Saturday, May 22, 1999


9.00-10.30: Minorities Abroad but Nearby - Ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania and
Beyond (7)

Chair: Sorin Antohi (Central European University, Budapest)

Laszlo Kurti (University of Miskolc): State, Nation and Homeland: Transylvanians
in Hungary

John Fox (University of California, Los Angeles): Identity Formation in
Migration: The Case of Transylvanian Hungarian Guest Workers

Veres Valer (University Babes-Bolyai, Cluj): The Influence of Internal Migration
on Ethnically Mixed Areas of Transylvania

Zsuzsanna Torok (Central European University, Budapest): Institutionalization
and Instrumentalization of Ethnic Interests: Strategies of Social Reforms of
Hungarian Students in Interwar Romania, 1919-1945

10.30-11.00: Coffee Break

11.00-13.00: State Dissolution, State Formation and Ethnic Unmixing: The Case of
Croatia

Chair: Drago Roksandic (University of Zagreb/Central European University,
Budapest)

Jasna Capo-Zmegac: (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore, Zagreb): Ethnic
Croatian Migrants Between National Allegiance and a Newly Discovered Ethnic
Identity

Daphne Winland (York University): Cartographies of Desire: The Cultural Politics
of Croatian Identity

Pamela Ballinger (Bowdoin College, Brunswick): Living in the Ruins: Making
Memories of the Istrian Homeland

Jadranka Cacic-Kumpes (Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb)/Ivo
Nejasmic (University of Zagreb): Social Changes, Migration and Ethnic Structure:
The Case of Petrinja (Croatia)

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00: Life in Between: International and Transnational Perspectives on
Diasporas and Ethnic Migrants (9)

Chair: Rainer Munz (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Stefan Wolff (Keele University): External Minorities in Central and Eastern
Europe: Implications for a Collective Security System in Europe

Madeleine Demetriou (University of Kent, Canterbury): Beyond the Nation-State?
Diasporic Identities, Loyalty and Transnational Politics

Yossi Shain/Martin Sherman (Tel Aviv University): Diasporas, Transnational
Financial Flows, and National Identity

Larissa Remennick (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan): Russian Jews in 1990s Israel
as a Transnational Community: Cultural Separatism and Beyond

Rainer Ohliger (Humboldt University, Berlin): Ethnic Minorities and Ethnic
Migrants. On the Way to Transcultural and Transnational Structures?


14.00-16.00: Comparing Diasporas and Ethnic Migrants: German and Israeli
Experiences (10)

Chair: Judith Shuval (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Yvonne Schutze (Humboldt University, Berlin)/Tamar Rapoport (Hebrew University
of Jerusalem): Approaching a New Society: Social Relationships of Young Russian
Jews in Israel and Germany

Amanda Klekowski (Georgetown Unversity, Washington): Who Organizes? The
Political Opportunity of Co-Ethnic Migrant Mobilization: Post-Cold War Jewish
Immigrants to Israel and Ethnic German Migrants to Germany

Marina Niznik (Tel Aviv University): The Russian Language as Base Factor of the
Formation of the Russian Community in Israel

Heike Roll (Osteuropa-Institut Munchen): German Language Proficiency and its
Impact on the Integration of Young Ethnic German Immigrants from the former
Soviet Union

16.00-16.30: Coffee Break


16.30-18.30: Daniel Chirot (University of Washington, Seattle): Concluding
Lecture and Final Discussion: Should Identities Adapt To Boundaries or
Boundaries to Identities? The Lasting Dilemmas of Modern Migration


Sunday, May 23, 1999

10.00-12.00: Meeting of young scholars (stipend program)

this information will soon be available at:

http://www.demographie.de/ethnic/program

Best regards,

Zh.

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I'd dare recommend you not to send papers (as attachments) directly to the
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region...
Not my case, i'm still on cable... but who knows?

A better solution would be that employed, as an example, on MINELRES.
If you have a paper, just post an announcement regarding that paper - and
offer to distribute it upon request to those interested only.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Fifth International Conference of the Center for Romanian Studies

"Romanian Studies at the Turn of the Century"

28 June to 2 July 1999
Iasi, Romania


The Fifth International Conference of the Center for Romanian Studies,
organized in cooperation with the "A.D. Xenopol" Institute of History,
will be held in Iasi, Romania, from 28 June to 2 July 1999.  The close
of the twentieth century and the approach of a new millennium provide
an excellent opportunity to analyze and discuss the current status of
Romanian studies in the areas of history, literature, and culture, as
well as to discuss new directions that should be pursued in future
research.  For this reason the topic "Romanian Studies at the Turn of
the Century" has been chosen as the theme for the Fifth International
Conference of the Center for Romanian Studies.  Accepted topics will be
those related to the current status and future direction of Romanian
studies in the areas of history, literature, and culture.  Languages
used will be English and Romanian. As with past conferences, papers
presented at the conference will be published in a volume.
Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes, but papers submitted for
publication can be substantially longer.

Preliminary Deadline for Paper Proposals: 30 April 1999

Please send a one page abstract to:


Program Coordinator
Center for Romanian Studies
Oficiul Postal I
Csusa Postal 108
6600 Iasi ROMANIA

Tel. (40.32) 219000; Fax (40.32) 219010
E-Mail: csr@...

Additional information can be found on our website:

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Hi Misha,

As I see from your email address you probably are writing from Serbia.
I do not know how is the atmosphere there but form a neutral view point
of the mess (I am in Budapest) it seems to me that NATO has to bomb because
it has a) built much hype and has focused its public attention around the issue
that it can not back down, and secondly, even if we disregard the public opinion
b)if it does not bomb it would loose credibility in the eyes of the
international community
and Milosevic itself.As much as I hate to say it both NATO and Milosevic are in
a deadly
trap, NATO will bomb and 'Slobo' will send his troops on rampage.This will in
turn lead to grave
consequences and even larger war.
I think that US overestimated(s) the situation putting pressure on Milosevic to
accept
an unfair deal.Given historical circumstances US should have known that at the
moment Milosevic simply 'cannot give up' Kosovo and that pressuring him would be
to no avail. Instead, I think that US
should have pressured the Albanian side more so that the deal is more acceptable
to Serbia, and envolved Russia in the implementation.I am sure it sounds bizzare
but I think that it could have been easier to pressurize Kosovo Albanians then
Milosevic.As it shows, pressurizing Milosevic will lead to loss
of many lives.
In any case, these are my thoughts for the moment.I have attached my Kosovo
paper to this email-you can find more of my thought on the matter there
Zhidas Daskalovski



>>> "Misa Djurkovic" <mdjurkov@...> 03/20/99 12:13PM >>>
After breaking up of Paris negotiations situation with Kosovo issue is
radicalizing. Kosovo Verification Mission has left Kosovo two days ago, and
at the terrain we have the open battle field with two military forces, UCK
and Serbian police forces and Army (estimated on more than 30 000 ) and
permanently increasing since we have drafting (mobilization) all over the
Serbia which has been lasting for more than a month. Serbian military
forces at Kosovo at the moment are very strong. Some analysts claim that
this means expression of Serbia to defend it's souverenity and territory
and to fight against anybody who would try to violate or enter it. But
today we got the opinion of Ljubodrag Stojadinovic, military analyst and
ex-speaker of Yugoslav army, that this strong forces might (ob)use possible
NATO bombing of Serbia and probably start with definite "cleaning" Kosovo
of UCK.
Tomorrow, diplomats(Petrich, Hill, Majorski and even Holbrook) are coming
to Belgrade to try to persuade Milosevic to except agreement, which is very
unexpected since Military annex is really scandalous and unmoderate(it is
absolute humiliation and almost occupation of Yugoslavia - NATO insists on
it's 28 000 soldiers and do not except any proposition that it might be
Russian or some other forces) and which is more important for Milosevic, he
is for the first time personally endangered. This means that he 's gonna
probably take Sadam Husein's direction (NATO military intervention will be
used to "cover" disastrous situation in serbian economy, media space,
university, and to provide explanation and justification for his stronger
dictatorship)
But even if Milosevic doesn't except agreement, NATO still doesn't have
"casus belli" for starting intervention. If at Kosovo remains status quo
with just a temporary fights(which is imaginable situation), it would miss
justification for direct action. Roksanda Nincic, journalist of leading
Belgrade weekly "Vreme" wrote that Americans and NATO "need dead civilians,
burned villages, streams of refugees, or something like that" to be good
material for CNN to justify the need for action. Everybody knows that .
Milosevic knows that as well. So my question is : why did he give the order
for strong attacks of serbian military forces to the strongest UCK bases
around Drenica and Srbica during last two days, which are on a "good way"
to provide everything NATO needs for military intervention: burned villages
and streams of refugees (some say more than 10 000 around Vucitrn already)?
Misa Djurkovic


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After breaking up of Paris negotiations situation with Kosovo issue is
radicalizing. Kosovo Verification Mission has left Kosovo two days ago, and
at the terrain we have the open battle field with two military forces, UCK
and Serbian police forces and Army (estimated on more than 30 000 ) and
permanently increasing since we have drafting (mobilization) all over the
Serbia which has been lasting for more than a month. Serbian military
forces at Kosovo at the moment are very strong. Some analysts claim that
this means expression of Serbia to defend it's souverenity and territory
and to fight against anybody who would try to violate or enter it. But
today we got the opinion of Ljubodrag Stojadinovic, military analyst and
ex-speaker of Yugoslav army, that this strong forces might (ob)use possible
NATO bombing of Serbia and probably start with definite "cleaning" Kosovo
of UCK.
Tomorrow, diplomats(Petrich, Hill, Majorski and even Holbrook) are coming
to Belgrade to try to persuade Milosevic to except agreement, which is very
unexpected since Military annex is really scandalous and unmoderate(it is
absolute humiliation and almost occupation of Yugoslavia - NATO insists on
it's 28 000 soldiers and do not except any proposition that it might be
Russian or some other forces) and which is more important for Milosevic, he
is for the first time personally endangered. This means that he 's gonna
probably take Sadam Husein's direction (NATO military intervention will be
used to "cover" disastrous situation in serbian economy, media space,
university, and to provide explanation and justification for his stronger
dictatorship)
But even if Milosevic doesn't except agreement, NATO still doesn't have
"casus belli" for starting intervention. If at Kosovo remains status quo
with just a temporary fights(which is imaginable situation), it would miss
justification for direct action. Roksanda Nincic, journalist of leading
Belgrade weekly "Vreme" wrote that Americans and NATO "need dead civilians,
burned villages, streams of refugees, or something like that" to be good
material for CNN to justify the need for action. Everybody knows that .
Milosevic knows that as well. So my question is : why did he give the order
for strong attacks of serbian military forces to the strongest UCK bases
around Drenica and Srbica during last two days, which are on a "good way"
to provide everything NATO needs for military intervention: burned villages
and streams of refugees (some say more than 10 000 around Vucitrn already)?
Misa Djurkovic


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Hi Guys.

This is a very informative web site on Kosovo.
Have a nice day,
Zhidas
http://www.decani.yunet.com/kip.html


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The Kosovo Interim Agreement is available online, as well as the Serbian
Counterproposal and reports from the meetings in Rambouillet.
at: http://www.balkanaction.org/

______________________
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From: craig zelizer <czelizer@...>

Southeastern Europe on the eve of the 21st Century:
                              The Eight International Congress of the
International Association for
                                          Southeast Euroepan Studies
(AIESEE)
                                               Bucharest, August 24-29,
1999

                     For inquiries (all US correspondence should be done
by e-mail) please contact:

                     Virgil Cndea
                     Institut d'etudes Sud-Est Europeans de l'Academie
Roumaine
                     Calea 13 septembrie, no. 13
                     "casa Academiei Romme"
                     C.P. 22-159 Bucharest, Romania

                     Fax: (40-1)-312-4134
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