The disintegration of former Yugoslavia happened with conflicts that were characterised as examples of so-called 'new wars'. They were observed in Eastern Europe and Africa in the post-Cold War era and maintained by British academic Mary Kaldor. The focal points of these conflicts that made interstate conventional war look like an anachronism involve the arguments of humanitarian intervention and ethnic cleansing. The actors are both global and local, public and private. After the 'new war', hatred was smouldering and what could be described as 'counter-ethnic cleansing' has left civilians displaced away from home.
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