IWPR

Crossing Divides

IWPR’s Balkan Crisis Report has worked to build good journalistic practice in the region over five years of momentous change, but challenges still lie ahead.

Comment: A Poisoned Chalice

Leading Kosovo journalist warns the next UNMIK chief that he may rue the day he ever took up the post.

The Internationals and the Balkans: Time for Change?

Is the international presence in the Balkans in need of restructuring – or major surgery?

Comment: Parting Thoughts on Bosnia's Paralysis

Outgoing OSCE mission head calls on Bosnians to build a greater sense of ownership over the political process.

Serbian Roma Battle Silent Prejudice

The barriers may be less overt than in some countries but this desperately poor community still faces enormous discrimination.

The Patten Letter

Comment: EU Realising State Union Can't Survive

Brussels appears to be coming round to accepting that Serbia and Montenegro would be better off as independent states.

Comment: Macedonia Referendum: Step Backwards on Road to EU

Country’s European integration hopes in jeopardy if progress on decentralisation stalls.

Comment: Changing Face of Balkan Diplomacy

From the Berlin Congress to the Ohrid agreement - the pros and cons of western engagement with the region.

Devolving War Crimes Justice

Local prosecutors and judges have to focus on building up their capacity for domestic war crimes prosecutions.