Anthony Borden
IWPR Executive Director
US & NL Governance Committees; Finance Committee; Nominations Committee
IWPR Executive Director
US & NL Governance Committees; Finance Committee; Nominations Committee
Tony is the founder of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting. He was editor of the highly regarded IWPR magazine War Report from 1991-98 and was commended for the “Best Online Journalism Service” in the 1999 NetMedia journalism awards, for IWPR's reporting on the Kosovo crisis. He has worked with the UK's Department for International Development assessing media programs in post-communist countries. He has received a MacArthur Foundation NGO research fellowship to study media and conflict at King’s College, London. He has worked as an editor and writer for Harper's, The Nation, The American Lawyer and HarperCollins, and contributed to The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Newsweek and numerous other publications. He comments regularly on conflict and media issues for the BBC, CNN and other media. Tony is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Reporting from Ukraine by IWPR founder and executive director. |
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As the high-stakes effort to get agreement from Belgrade and the KLA continued, so did the war.
The clearest loss from Rambouillet is international credibility. The fragile consensus on the NATO deadline may not be reassembled in March. If Milosevic didn't agree at Rambouillet, what could possibly compel him to agree a few weeks later?
In the end, fudge won. After an intensive two-week session enduring ‘chateau fever’, and some serious last-minute tension, Serbian and Albanian negotiating parties at the Kosovo talks in France came to a "provisional understanding" on the outlines of a de