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Kosovo: How the Kosovar territory can get developing economically and culturally through its identity balanced between the ethnic strife and conflicts of interest between the Serbs, Albanians and the international community? Richmond University - London
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A such unexpected and international violent struggle burst out between Serbs and Albanians in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia over the southern Serbian province of Kosovo1. This terrible issue led to a 1999 meeting between Serbian and Albanian officials in order to make a peace resolution and arrangements. This formal and official diplomatic meeting was organized by the international community under the control of the French and the Italians so as to discuss eventual peace.
The Serbs were looking for protecting the cradle of their culture, the Serbian civilization and its identity against the Albanians’ battle for an independent territory of Kosovo. When the peace agreement could not be reached, the NATO2 countries, in order to protect Albanians from a massive « ethnic cleansing, » launched a missile bombing campaign over former Yugoslavia on the 24 March of 1999. The bombings lasted for 78 days. And NATO’s intervention in what came to be known as “the Kosovo conflict” injured and murdered thousands of civilians. It destroyed the local factories, workplaces, schools, and hospitals.
Furthermore this tense conflict has damaged the country’s energy, transport, and communications systems. It also has triggered a economic, social, and ecological disaster; and made becoming thousands homeless. It traumatized numerous families on all sides of the war, including the people in the diaspora who had fled Yugoslavia’s civil war in the e...

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...ermore, the conflict provoked a high risk of be prolonged psychologically in a serious brain disturbance. It has ruined their any chances of getting rid of this trauma by compromising any of them academic future. The many children facing this “massive war traumas show evidence of Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder” (PTSD).
In this present massive study on the mental disorders of the children during the war, it would be relevant to wander how could we treat the youth’s distress and unstable mental health. Are the relatives, the local doctors and professionals able to educate theses children properly in order to make them recovering theses atrocities. Another study gathering what the new Kosovo State
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Romuald Maronese Dissertation Literature review could learn from the aftermath of the war would be a better contributor to the potential development of the Kosovar society.

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