Publication

This paper looks at the situation in the Albanian majority inhabited areas of southern Serbia, where a controversial but rather successful peace settlement was imposed by the Serbian government in May 2001. The author details how the settlement was brokered by NATO, who brought pressure on the local Albanian armed groups to disarm and to allow the Yugoslav army to reoccupy territory they had been forced out of in a strip along the Kosovo border. The paper examines whether the peace settlement has been successful, and in what ways.