This book traces the origins and success of Ibrahim Rugova's policy of nonviolence in Kosovo between 1989-1998 and how it laid the framework for the creation of Kosovo's cultural and political identity as an independent state.
>This is a key text for scholars interested in the history of the Kosovar liberation movement, the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia; and those looking at current issues in the Western Balkans, and the Albanian-Kosovar relationship.