Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future

Home destroyed by the waves of violence in the 1999 war. Northwest Kosovo, July 2005

Source: From Author

The NEWBORN independence monument in Kosovo.

Source: Courtesy of Nicole Slezak, with Kosovo Women's Network and the Advocacy Project

Homes destroyed in the 1999 war in Kosovo, over 5 years later.

Source: Andrew Testa, through the author

Current Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci

Source: Open Source-from the U.S. Government

July 2007-Sec. Rice with Members of the Kosovo Unity Team. 3rd from Left - Hashim Thaci, then President of the Democratic Party of Kosovo; On Rice's right - President Fatmir Sejdiu, On Rice's left - then Prime Minister Agim Ceku.

Source: Open Source-from the U.S. Government

The National Public Library in Prishtina

Source: GNU license (wikipedia.org)

Bill Clinton Boulevard in Prishtina

Source: Public Domain (wikipedia.org)

World War I era Poster celebrating Kosovo Day, when Serbia defeated the Turkish armies in Kosovo.

Kosovo Coat of Arms

Ex-Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Djindic at the 2003 Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, two months before his assassination

Source: World Economic Forum (Creative Commons 2.0)

Movie Poster of Grbavica (2006). Director- Jasmila Zbanic

Source: wikipedia.org, assumed fair use because of its unique descriptive capabilities and advertising purpose.

Ibrahim Rugova—political party leader of Kosovo Albanians in the late 1990s/early 2000s

Source: Open Source-from the U.S. Government

Martti Ahtisaari--ex-Finnish President and UN Special Envoy for negotiating for Kosovo Independence. He won a Nobel Prize for these efforts

Source: Open Source-from the U.S. Government

Embattled former President of Serbia and Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic.

Source: Open Source

Bridge over the Ibar River, connecting the Serbian and Albanian parts of Mitrovica

Vojislav Kostunica, Former President of Yugoslavia and Prime Minister of Serbia. Current leader of Democratic Party of Serbia

Source: From Russian Federation Government-www.kremlin.ru

Then Presidents Vojislav Kostunica and George Bush with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice meet during Koštunica's Presidency

Source: Open Source-from the U.S. Government

Prizren City in Kosovo

Source: wikipedia.org released through GNU creative license

White Drin River in Kosovo

Source: wikipedia.org released through creative commons license

Kosovo's Junik Mountains

Source: Creative Commons License

Ramush Haradinaj, former commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army and ex-Prime Minister in 2004.

Source: Open Source

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Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future

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