INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AS A TOOL FOR PREVENTING AND RESOLVING CONFLICTS WITH A SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE CASE OF THE FORMER YOUGOSLAVIA

Abstract

International conferences, especially those with closed doors, have been shown as a successful tools of conflict prevention but in many cases even in resolving them. It seems that the peoples of the world have not learned lessons about the dangers that war brings and are constantly dealing with provocations which ultimately send to war. Also the peoples of the former Yugoslavia who lived together in peace for 50 years, even though they belonged to different nationalities and religions, after the collapse of the communist system that kept them united, and with the emergence of nationalists of differrent nationalities began bloody wars beetween them in order to create their own national states. In this regard, Serbia was the one that started everything on the occasion of Kosovo and Vojvodina to continue with the Serbian uprisings initially in Sllovenia, Croatia and then in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a view to the creation of big Serbia, a project which was promoted in a religious event, which was politically styled manifestation in Gazimestan of Pristina in marking the anniversary of the loss of Serbs from the Ottoman Empire. In this paper we will deal with the cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo, because closed doors were held for these two countries, which in the first case resulted in political agreement, while in the case of Kosovo was also the military intervention of NATO aimed to end the war in Kosovo.