Project on peacekeeping

[sgt_mandal]

Hello everyone, I'm doing a project on peacekeeping more specifically the goings on of teh balkans. Something I was curious about and havn't been able to find a straight answer is; What is yugoslavia? Are Bosnia Croatia and Serbia like "states" forming Yugoslavia? or am I completely off?

 

[Michael Dorosh]

Hello everyone, I'm doing a project on peacekeeping more specifically the goings on of teh balkans. Something I was curious about and havn't been able to find a straight answer is; What is yugoslavia? Are Bosnia Croatia and Serbia like "states" forming Yugoslavia? or am I completely off?

http://www.wikipedia.org

Yugoslavia no longer exists; hence the term 'former Yugoslavia"....

 

[rmc_wannabe]

Hello everyone, I'm doing a project on peacekeeping more specifically the goings on of teh balkans. Something I was curious about and havn't been able to find a straight answer is; What is yugoslavia? Are Bosnia Croatia and Serbia like "states" forming Yugoslavia? or am I completely off?

First of..you're right on about Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia formally being states of Yugislavia...theres a good starting point

 

[sgt_mandal]

AHHhhhh..........it all makes sence now..thanks

 

[sgt_mandal]

Does anyone have any little facts or figures that might look good if i were to add them to my project? full credit will be given to those who volunteer the info....

 

[GO!!!]

"All of the nations that compose the Former Yugoslavia are miserable, hateful little republics bent on each other's destruction and their own pre-eminence over each other. Peacekeeping within them will preserve the status quo until the UN troops leave, at which point they will return to butchering each other within a few years."

You may quote me.

GO!!!

These may also help;

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bk.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Former_Yugoslavia

 

[Jungle]

You should also read this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1039269.stm
Extract:

The union of Serbia and Montenegro was voted into existence by the Yugoslav parliament in February 2003.

The parliaments of Serbia and Montenegro had already approved the constitutional charter for the new union. Yugoslavia formally ceased to be.

 

[paracowboy]

"All of the nations that compose the Former Yugoslavia are miserable, hateful little republics bent on each other's destruction and their own pre-eminence over each other. Peacekeeping within them will preserve the status quo until the UN troops leave, at which point they will return to butchering each other within a few years."

also: "These nations are bastions of the most ill-smelling, lazy, misogynistic, alcohol-dependent, criminally-minded dirt-bags outside of the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club." You may also quote me.

 

[paracowboy]

heck's Angels Motorcycle Club

hmmm, kinda lost something in the translation, there.

 

[PPCLI MCpl]

Look up the Dayton Peace Accord's.

http://www.nato.int/sfor/indexinf/bihistory.htm

This link is a good place to start.

 

[medicineman]

Some of us here are a little bitter and twisted about our times in the Balkans - well alot - there are a few decent books out there written about the wars there, and not by locals.

MM

 

[TCBF]

"...a project on peacekeeping more specifically the goings on of teh balkans"

Hey Mandal, do it on Afghanistan instead, the people are hardy,stoic, uncomplaining and honourable.  For the most part. 

Tom

 

[aesop081]

Does anyone have any little facts or figures that might look good if i were to add them to my project? full credit will be given to those who volunteer the info....

"peacekeeping sucks *** "

You can quote me on that !!

 

[TCBF]

Remember the REAL reason for UNFICYP in Cyprus: Greece and Turkey were key members on NATO's southern flank.  Turkey had 12 Divisions along it's border with Russia.  Both Greece and Turkey had strategically placed airbases to cover the Med and Black seas.  The mission was to kep the peace within NATO and the pressure on the USSR.  Waving to peasants in mountain villages in Cyprus was a mere by product.  Notice how soon we left when the cold war ended?

Tom

 

[medicineman]

Indeed TCBF.  Not many alcoholics there either  ;D.

MM

 

[sgt_mandal]

Oh my, I didn't know there was so much negativity towards this....my bad?

 

[paracowboy]

I had a big long rant on "Peacekeeping" somewhere, explaining how the over-whelming majority of soldiers I know feel about the term. Poke around for it. It would actually help your project to know how we feel about "Peacekeeping", and you could then use the information found on this site to improve your project and possibly edify the militarily-uneducated.

It's nothing to be embarrassed over. We just depise the term. But most of the population are unaware of this. Do some Searches. Edjicate yerself.

 

[Pte. Bloggins]

This was posted some time ago, may be of some use...

http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/34287.new;boardseen#new