'Post-conflict' Kosovo: An anatomy lesson in the ethics/politics of human rights

This assessment of the current security situation in Kosovo, 6 months after the NATO intervention, examines some of the key reasons behind the failure of the "new" ethics & politics of human rights in the international arena. The claim is made that the ethico-political promise implied in the political actions dealing with crisis areas such as Kosovo has to be rearticulated. It should be conceived on more effective & emancipatory grounds, while not being based on the ideology of victimization or in an ethnonationalist matrix. The analysis of the grassroots problematic of Kosovo enables us to appreciate how the only way forward is toward creating communities of security (trust, confidence & interest) out of the communities of fear that are caught in the ethnonationalist paradigm. Adapted from the source document.