General Resources
Regional Reports and Documents
UN report Crime and its Impact on the Balkans, released 29 May by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime
International Organization for Migration. Sonderedition zum Jubiläum "10 Jahre Rückkehrhilfe Schweiz". Juni 2007.
Final Report of the Commission of Experts Established Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 780 to Investigate Violations of International Humanitarian Law in the Former Yugoslavia.
European Stability initiative. Breaking out of the Balkan Ghetto: Why IPA should be changed. June, 2005.
European Stability Initiative. The Helsinki Moment: European Member-state Building in the Balkans. February, 2005.
International Commission on the Balkans. The Balkans in Europe's Future. April, 2005.
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Minorities - Recommended Documents
Council of the European Union Directive 2000/43/EC of 29 June 2000 implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin.
Project on Ethnic Relations (PER). The Romani "Mahalas" (Neighborhoods) of South Eastern Europe: Politics, Poverty, and Ethnic Unrest. Skopje Conference Report. December 2002.
Minorities - Recommended Links
Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015
European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - Roma and Sinti
OSCE Recommendations by the High Commissioner on National Minorities
Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons - Recommended Documents
Contat-Hickel, Marguerite. Protection of Internally Displaced Persons affected by Armed Conflict: Concept and Challenges. International Review of the Red Cross 83/843. September 2001. Pp. 699-711.
Council of Europe. Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and Explanatory Report (H [1995]010). Strassbourg, February 1995.
Deng, Francis. Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement (E/CN.4/1998/53/Add.2)
Deng, Francis. Compilation and Analysis of Legal Norms (E/CN.4/1996/52/Add.2)
Deng, Francis. Compilation and Analysis of Legal Norms. Part 2 (E/CN.4/1998/53/Add. 19)
ICRC. The Situation of Internally Displaced Persons in Serbia and Montenegro. Issues Paper. Belgrade , May 2005.
ICRC. The Vulnerability Assessment of Internally Displaced Persons in Serbia and Montenegro. Final Report. Belgrade, July 2003.
Kälin, Walter. Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. Annotations. ASIL Studies in Transnational Legal Policy, No. 32. Washington, DC, 2000.
Kälin, Walter. Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally-Displaced Persons. Press Release: Visit to Croatia , 9 June 2005.
Kälin, Walter. Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally-Displaced Persons. Press Release: Visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina, 15 June 2005.
Mangala, Jack M. Prévention des déplacements forcés de population ? possibilités et limites. International Review of the Red Cross 83/844. December 2001. 1067-95.
UNHCR. Bosnia-Herzegovina Refugee Return. January 2005.
Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons - Recommended Links
UN High Commission for Refugees, Representation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dealing with the Past - Recommended Documents
Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA). The EU and the Western Balkans. Grassroots Peacebuilding and Enlargement. January 2009.
Franovic, Ivana. Dealing with the Past in the Context of Ethnonationalism. The Case ofBosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. Berghof Occasional Papers No. 29. October 2008.
Dealing with the Past - Recommended Links
Centre for Documentation and Research - Sarajevo
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Bosnia and Herzegovia - Recommended Documents
Bosnia: A Test of Political Maturity in Mostar. Crisis Group Europe Briefing N°54, 27 July 2009. Download. Overview.
Still Waiting: Bringing Justice for War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, and Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina?s Cantonal and District Courts. HRW. July 2008.
The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Dayton Peace Agreement)
Dealing with the Past in Post-Conflict Societies. Ten Years after the Peace Accords in Guatemala and Bosnia-Herzegovina. swisspeace Conference Paper 1/2007.
European Stability Initative, Berlin and Populari, Sarajevo. A Bosnian Fortress. Return, energy, and the future of Republika Srpska. December 19, 2007.
European Stability Initiative. Governance and Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Post-Industrial Society and the Authoritarian Temptation. 2004.
International Crisis Group. Bosnia's Stalled Police Reform: No Progress, no EU. Report N°164 - 6 September 2005.
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Recommended Links
UN High Commission for Refugees, Representation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia - Recommended Documents
Open Society Iniative - Croatias Openness Index and Initial Findings on Societal Openness in Croatia
Croatia - Recommended Links
Centre for Peace, Nonviolence, and Human Rights - Osijek
Documenta - Centre for Dealing with the Past
Croatian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights (CHC)
Kosovo - Recommended Documents
European Commission. Communication from the Commission: Kosovo - Fulfilling its European Perspective. COM(2009) 5343 . 14 October 2009
European Commission. Commission Staff Working Document: Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99 2009 Progress Report. SEC(2009) 1340. October 2009.
UNDP Assessment Report on Access to Justice in Kosovo. July 2008
Kosovo's Constitution: Draft of the constitution by the Constitutional Commission. February 2008.
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP): Dusan Reljic: Bedrohliche Weiterung der Kosovo-Krise. January 2008.
Crisis Group. Kosovo Countdown: A Blueprint for Transition. December 2007.
Crisis Group. Breaking the Kosovo Stalemate: Europe's Responsibility. August 2007.
Crisis Group. No Good Alternatives to the Ahtisaari Plan. May 2007.
UNDP Kosovo: Public Perceptions on Transitional Justice Report. Report on Transitional Justice. Opinion Polling Survey Conducted in April-May 2007 in Kosovo. December 2007. Info.OSCE. Report on the administrative justice system in Kosovo. April 2007.
International Red Cross. Book on the missing persons in Kosovo-Metohija with the names of 2,047 missing persons from the province. 2007.
International Crisis Group. Kosovo after Haradinaj. Europe Report N°163 - 26 May 2005
swisspeace. Kosovo's Burdensome Path to Economic Development and Interethnic Coexistence. August 2005.
Project on Ethnic Relations (PER). Kosovo and the Region Prepare for Change: Relations, Responsible Governance, and Personal Security. Lucerne Conference Report. July, 2005.
Economic Strategy and Project Identification Group. Towards a Kosovo Development Plan: The State of the Kosovo Economy and Possible Ways Forward. ESPIG Policy Paper No. 1, August 2004
Project on Ethnic Relations (PER). Kosovo 2005: Assuring Security for the Neighborhood. Budapest Conference Report. November, 2004.
OSCE and UNHCR. Tenth Assessment of the Situation of Ethnic Minorities in Kosovo (Period covering May 2002 to December 2002). March, 2003
UN Security Council. Comprehensive Review of the Situation in Kosovo (S/2005/635).
Kosovo - Recommended Links
Crisis Group: Kosovo's Final Status
European Union - Pillar of UNMIK
United Nations Interim Adminsitration in Kosovo (UNMIK)
Macedonia - Recommended Documents
Project on Ethnic Relations (PER). Macedonias Interethnic Coalition: The First Six Months. Mavrovo Conference Report. May, 2003.
Project on Ethnic Relations (PER). Macedonias Interethnic Coalition: The First Year. Mavrovo Conference Report. December, 2003.
Project on Ethnic Relations (PER). Macedonias Interethnic Coalition: Solidifying Gains. Mavrovo Conference Report. June, 2004.
Project on Ethnic Relations (PER). Macedonia: The Next Steps. Mavrovo Conference Report. December, 2004.
Project on Ethnic Relations (PER). Macedonia: On the Road to Brussels. Mavrovo Conference Report. June, 2005.
Project on Ethnic Relations (PER). Macedonia: On the Road to Brussels. Mavrovo Conference Report. June, 2005.
Serbia and Montenegro - Recommended Documents
Crisis Group. Will the Real Serbia Please Stand Up?. April 2008.
Crisis Group. Serbia's New Government: Turning from Europe. May 2007.
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia . Human Rights and Collective Identity - Serbia 2004. Belgrade, 2004.
Serbia and Montenegro - Recommended Links
Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM)
Center for Cultural Decontamination
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia