RESPONSIBILITY TO REBUILD OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY IN KOSOVO
Abstract
The Kosovo War of 1998-1999 began with the operation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia against the Kosovo Liberation Army, which was in the struggle for independence. Although this war ended with the intervention of NATO on March 24, 1999, it has created a lot of controversy regarding its legitimacy in international law. The concept of Responsibility to Protect, which discusses the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention, appeared in 2001. The report stated that NATO’s intervention in Kosovo was instrumental in the emergence of this concept. Despite this, the compliance of NATO’s intervention to the report is a concept under discussion. In addition to this, the responsibility to rebuild that the report has given to interventionists after the intervention is as important as intervening. This responsibility is expressed in the reconstruction of the intervened state. This study examined how much the interventionist states that form international society fulfilled the responsibility to rebuild, which began with their intervention and still continues today. The study analyzed the Responsibility to Protect based on the criteria specified under the element of responsibility to rebuild. As a method, in accordance with the criteria for rebuilding, UNMIK reports were examined, and an extensive literature review was conducted. As a result, it was concluded that the international community has a continuing responsibility to rebuild, and to date, they have succeeded in some criteria and failed in some criteria as analyzed in the article.
Keywords
Responsibility to Protect, Responsibility to Rebuild, International Society, Kosovo, Serbia
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