Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari has received the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for his three decades of peace mediation work around the globe.
Sixty years ago, the UN adopted a milestone document that provided impetus to the human rights movement and inspired standard-bearers of peace, equality, and justice. How is it holding up?
The European Union has launched EULEX, its rule-of-law mission in the fledgling Balkan state of Kosovo. The mission, with an initial staff of 1,300, is aimed at bringing order and stability to Kosovo, which unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in February this year.
The European Union is set on December 9 to launch its law-and-order mission in Kosovo. EULEX is tasked with helping the new state meet European standards in its police, judicial, customs, and penitentiary bodies. But just a day before its work is set to begin, troubling questions remain about the EULEX mandate -- and Kosovo's future.
Representatives from more than 100 governments have begun signing a document binding their countries not to make, stockpile, or use cluster bombs.
The European Union has delayed deployment of a major police and justice mission in Kosovo, amid continuing tensions about the exact role of the new body.
Three German spies initially suspected of planting a bomb at the EU office in Kosovo are set to fly home once a court has ruled on their case, two top government officials said on November 28.
The UN Security Council cleared the way on November 26 for a European Union police and justice mission to deploy in Kosovo, in a statement welcoming agreement by Serbia and Kosovo to the move.
Kosovo and Serbia will cooperate with a European Union justice and police mission that Brussels hopes will be deployed in Kosovo by early next month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said.
The EU's foreign-policy chief made his comments after meeting with Ban Ki-moon at UN headquarters in New York.
Mirsad Tokaca's "Bosnian Book of the Dead" tallies the number of those killed in the 1992-95 Bosnian war. But he's faced harsh criticism for his final count, dramatically lower than the usual estimates.
I imagine that after the Balkans passes through this phase of legalistic confrontation, it will move on -- finally -- to direct talks that can move its countries toward European integration. For this to happen, though, leaders must be willing to face historical truths in their entirety, rather than simply citing by rote the bits of it that suit their purposes.
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