Kosovo existed on Google Maps before it existed on the real map.
And Kosovo , at that time, was subject to a diplomatic process about the future of Kosovo that concerned six countries that
about the future of Kosovo .
And living in Kosovo , I saw how it contributed to immense political tension, frustration of people who felt they had no control over their future.
I flew back to Kosovo and had dinner with the Kosovo prime minister, a former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a remarkable man
I took the Kosovo prime minister to the UN Security Council, where hitherto he had been prohibited.
between Serbia and Kosovo .
their expectations that Kosovo would become independent at the end of this process.
Is it Kosovo ?
or Bosnia or Kosovo , I've seen pretty horrific things.
were secretly negotiating about whether Kosovo should become a state or not.
And I flew back to Kosovo .
And so it started with Kosovo .
$25,000 on a tent in Kosovo , but a permanent structure was just a technicality.
We made a difference in Kosovo .
the former Soviet Union in Kosovo and Bosnia and those experiments had happier outcome and and and one of the things we
The UN Security Council would have meetings about Kosovo , where 15 members of the Security Council could speak.
Kosovo could not speak, had a democratically-elected government, but was not entitled to speak, was not entitled to engage with this diplomatic process
Because they realized it really helped the process for the Kosovo government to understand it.
It also helped them push back against the extremists in Kosovo who were saying, oh, this diplomacy is such bullshit.
Like with Bosnia, with Kosovo , with Rwanda.
and we do small ones on a scale of Kosovo , or East Timor, or Sierra Leone about once every 5 to 10 years in between.
two and the other thing I really saw in Kosovo in particular too personally when I went and visited women's houses with
reported from Iraq Iran Sierra Leone East timore Vietnam India Kosovo and Haiti he has also written often about
And at the time, I was living in Kosovo , on succumbent to the United Nations.
Anyway, so I flew back to Kosovo .
The only jobs we really had going on as far special operators were like Kosovo , Bosnia, Liberia.
Isn't that just as bad as what the Serbs are doing in Kosovo ?
In addition to all of the things I just mentioned, she managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo early in her career and started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow.
But then, along the way, there was Kosovo , and Iraq, and a few things like that.
And I said to him, why not come and advise you about the diplomacy about Kosovo ?
I talked to Martti Ahtisaari, the Finnish UN envoy who was dealing with the Kosovo Serbia negotiations to decide the future status of Kosovo .
But other people have called for intervention-- for example, at the time of the Kosovo intervention against Serbia, other people said, well, what about what
There are some in Afghanistan, in Kosovo , in theaters of active service.
here to work with women in our community and that's in every country every work I saw that in Kosovo when I was visiting
forces into cleanse, that is, get rid of a million civilians in Kosovo .
I realized there was an opportunity to volunteer and give my business skills to build capacity and help small businesses in the Balkans just after the Kosovo crisis.
Because the UN, as the symbol of this inequity, this unjust process, was very widely hated in Kosovo .
He would say to me things that he couldn't say formally to the Kosovars, which I would then convey in Pristina-- the capital of Kosovo --
And I got to work on things like Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo .
You know, we have been working in Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Kosovo , in many war situations.