The Imprint Of Kosovo On The Law Of Humanitarian Intervention

For nearly ten years, human rights advocates have tried to focus public attention on Kosovo

Woman in the Service of National Identity

Close your eyes and imagine a woman from ex-Yugoslavia. What does she look like? Is she haggard, hollow-eyed, despondent, babushka clad with baby in tow, lugging water, dodging bullets in the streets of Sarejevo, weeping uncontrollably over the death of her son/husband/father/child, consoled by a kindly old gentleman? We all know what the women of ex-Yugoslavia look like because CNN tells us so. Yet women hold prominent posts in nearly every nongovernmental organization in the ex-Yugoslavia - from peace organizations, to human rights groups, to pro-intervention groups