Publication

This paper details how the violent disturbances that occurred in March 2004 in Kosovo have restored the attention of the international community to Kosovo and brought the region to the media forefront for the first time for three years. The author explains that three parallel factors came together to produce the chaos in Kosovo, namely the widespread imposition of roadblocks in Serb areas in central Kosovo following some violent incidents, additional ethnic violence in the north Kosovo town of Mitrovica, and the collapse of the UN control of the town itself. The paper states that the renewed ethnic tensions partially signal the beginning of the political endgame to determine the eventual status of Kosovo.