ABSTRACT
In March 2004, NATO leaders prepared to gather in Kosovo to commemorate the fifth anniversary of their largest military campaign: a war to liberate the Muslim population of Kosovo from the repressive Serbian government. Suddenly, the small province broke out into its worst ethnic violence since the end of the 1999 war, leaving 20 dead, 800 injured, and 400 ethnic Serbs and Roma displaced. 1 This time it was Muslims burning Orthodox Christian churches, destroying neighborhoods, and killing and injuring hundreds. As NATO responded with increased military forces, it appeared that the UN vision of building a multiethnic state in the heart of the Balkans was about to vanish.
