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Looking like Flames and Falling like Stars: Kosovo, ‘the First Internet War’

Wednesday, 28 March 2001 01:00 |

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THOMAS KEENAN
Bard College
For the last decade or so of the twentieth century, many of us were gripped by a powerful idea, an ideology even: that the new media of communications technology, writing, imaging, and data storage would not only revolutionise

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American Confusion from Vietnam to Kosovo:

Friday, 09 February 2001 03:00 |

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Coping with Chaos in High Places

by William R Taylor (Paperback - Feb 9, 2001)

Excerpt - Back Matter: "... Balkan Sunflowers via postings to ZAMIR list by Dutch founder Wam Kat: LISTS. ..."

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Seeing them grow

Friday, 03 March 2000 01:00 |

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By Samia Zeitoun
Al-Ahram Weekly, 2 - 8 March 2000)
The war in Kosovo is over, but the dust has not settled in that part of the world. Since June 1999, thousands of ethnic Albanians have returned to what was once home. Little is left of what they remember as Kosovo. Destroyed by the Serbs, on one hand, and NATO's bombing of the country's infrastructure, on the other, they face a harsh life in refugee camps and the derelict buildings of a war-torn landscape

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Volunteer in the Balkans

Saturday, 22 January 2000 01:00 |

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By Rand Engel

The nightly news presented a steady stream of heart-rending images. What could I do to help in Kosovo? I had no experience in relief work. As a business consultant and manager, I’d worked in stressful situations in Asia. Perhaps, I hoped, my organizational experience would be useful.

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Betinho Prize 2000 Finalist

Sunday, 09 January 2000 11:07 |

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Balkan Sunflowers: Using ICTs to Mobilise Volunteers for Social Reconstruction in the Balkans

Summary

Balkan Sunflowers (BSF) is a non-profit, international grassroots organization that was founded in the spring of 1999, originally to aid the Kosovar refugees. It brings together volunteers from all over the world that want to help in ways that monetary donations and emergency humanitarian aid cannot. Person-to-person interaction with voluntary workers, who come to work as partners and neighbours, helps to restore a sense of community life and soothe the experiences of those who have been uprooted.

Using an entirely Internet-based volunteer recruitment system built on simple mailing list and WWW tools, BSF has mobilized thousand of volunteers to participate in rebuilding Balkan communities from the ground up.

Read the full project story here…

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