ABSTRACT

What peculiar logic is there to genocide? Can such a logic be shown to have been operative in the Serb campaign against Kosovo in 1998-99, thereby demonstrating that the campaign was an instance of genocide? In what sense were the large-scale Serbian atrocities committed against Albanian Kosovars driven by objectives, notions and sentiments of an ideological nature? What background is there for the often-repeated notion that, historically, the Serbs are victims but never aggressors? And finally, depending on how these questions might be answered, what are the prospects for reconciliation in post-war Kosovo?