Nationbuilding as Peacebuilding: Racing to Define the Kosovar

Author: Simonsen, Sven

Source: International Peacekeeping, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2004 , pp. 289-311(23)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

Nationbuilding – (re)building a sense of community within a polity – can contribute towards peacebuilding. This article examines how the amibition to reduce the salience of ethnic identities and stimulate new integrative ones in Kosovo has figured in the international post-war reconstruction efforts. A number of arenas are surveyed – where contacts could emerge to break the present pattern of segregation and mistrust. In assessing the success thus far of international efforts to promote multi-ethnicity in Kosovo, the article contends that a mixed record of achievement is evident.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1353331042000237283

Affiliations: 1: International Peace Research Institute, Oslo

Publication date: 2004-06-01