After weeks of protests, ethnic Serbs in Kosovo have agreed to take down the barricades amidst hopes of tensions easing.
Kosovo’s uneasy peace has once more come underneath risk – this time from protests by ethnic Serbs that lasted weeks.
A single incident – the detention of a former Kosovo Serb police officer – ended up drawing in the USA, the European Union and Serbia to defuse a harmful standoff.
The previous officer’s arrest led to spiralling violence, with gunfire, arson assaults and ethnic Serbs blocking roads with barricades.
They're now being taken down, however the political boundaries stay.
So can peace return?
Presenter: Imran Khan
Visitors:
Mimoza Kusari-Lila – Former deputy prime minister of Kosovo, present member of parliament
Helena Ivanov – Affiliate analysis fellow at Henry Jackson Society and a Serbia analyst
Florian Bieber – Professor of Southeast European Historical past and Politics, director of the Centre for Southeast European Research, College of Graz, Austria
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