Occupations. Peacekeeping. Stabilization and reconstruction. Several terms that the greater part of the world has become very familiar with over the latter half of the 20th, and now the first part of the 21st century to describe the actions and processes that accompany a pre or post conflict region of the world. These terms also carry the implied weights of political, social, economic, and security goals over short or, more often, long periods of time. The essences of the aforementioned operations are very similar while at the same time very different, and as the Rand Corporation puts it, “These terms do not fully capture the scope of such operations. Neither does the term nation-building, but we believe it comes closest to suggesting the full range of activities and objectives involved.”

These operations have become increasingly complicated because the overwhelming majority of conflicts in the last two decades have been intra-state in nature and have been further exacerbated by policies of ethnic expulsion, exclusion, or annihilation. Such was the situation with the unrest in the former Yugoslavia and in the province of Kosovo throughout the 1990’s on to the present day. The

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Eastern Europe, Rand Corporation, International Negotiations, UN NGOs, UN GDP, Bosnia Kosovo, Peacekeeping Stabilization, UN NATO, Deliberate Force, Force IFOR, bosnia kosovo, bosnia herzegovina, european community, former yugoslavia, ethnic albanians, united allies, dayton accords, peace talks, november 1995, framework agreement,