Post-Milosevic dilemmas - and an imagined way out

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P O S T - M I L O S E V I C   D I L E M M A S   -

A N D   A N   I M A G I N E D   W A Y    O U T



By Jan Oberg, TFF director



This PressInfo analyzes the options in Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia and
Montenegro now that all three war-time presidents are out of the picture.
The demise of Milosevic could become the day of reckoning for the West, an
opportunity for self-criticism - and a new start.

It suggests that the former Yugoslav republics should come together and
sign a non-violence pact and a Balkan Peace and Democracy Declaration,
addressed primarily to Western conflict-"managers."

"While it was a tremendous relief that Milosevic got out of the way and it
happened by a largely non-violent uprising - the question is: can we also
finally get rid of the type of Western conflict mis-management created by
the symbiosis between him and the West?
Could we finally hope that the West dares see itself as what it is: a
contemporary and historical participant in the conflicts with interests in
the region and larger strategic goals and not an impartial, altruistic,
mediating peacemaker? "

The PressInfo ends with an - imagined - future meeting where these post-war
societies would send a message to the West, asking for a possibility to
shape their own future and be helped with what they need, not with what the
West thinks they ought to have - in short a plea for political AND economic
democracy.


Read the whole analysis on http://www.transnational.org


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