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Information Sources for Teachers: Conflict in Yugoslavia

April 14, 1999 1 min read
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Following is a list of some World Wide Web sites that teachers can use for background information and up-to-date reports on the Kosovo crisis.

Media:

Balkan Crisis Reports at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting:
www.iwpr.net.

British Broadcasting Corporation’s special report on Kosovo:
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo/.

Cable News Network:
www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/10/kosovo/.

MSNBC’s Flash Point on Kosovo:
msnbc.com/news/230178.asp.

New York Times’ Learning Network:
www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/kosovo/index.html.

Official Information Sources:

U.S. Government (State Department):
www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/kosovo_hp.html.

U.S. Navy (for pictures of missles and action):
www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/news/kosovo/alliedforce.html.

Great Britain (Royal Air Force) (for aircraft information and downloadable pictures):
www.raf.mod.uk/news/kosovopics.html.

Republic of Yugoslavia: Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
www.smip.sv.gov.yu/.

Republic of Yugoslavia: The Archives of Yugoslavia (for historial information on the country. Note: A long political statement on the current conflict precedes the relevant links at the bottom):
www.gov.yu/arhiv/.

Other Resources:

E-Conflict World Encyclopedia:
www.emulateme.com/serbia.htm.

Focus on Human Rights on the Human Rights Watch site:
www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/kosovo98/index.htm.

Time for Kids:
www.pathfinder.com/TFK/worldreport/v4n22_kosovo.htm.

A version of this article appeared in the April 14, 1999 edition of Education Week as Information Sources for Teachers: Conflict in Yugoslavia

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