Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in English providing information on Montenegro, one of two republics comprising the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. For related web links, see Regional Resources: Europe . For more USIP resources see Montenegro .
These links complement these Special Reports:
- Montenegro--and more--at risk
- Serbia and Montenegro: Reintegration, Divorce, or Something Else?
- Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Intervention in the Balkans and Beyond
These web links also support USIP's Balkans Initiative .
General Resources
The sites below collect links to other Internet resources which describe the background, history politics of Montenegro.
- INCORE guide to Internet sources on conflict and ethnicity in Serbia and Montenegro
A selective collection of annotated links to sources for news, articles and documents, NGOs, maps, etc. from the Initiative on Conflict Resolution & Ethnicity.
- International Cultural Center (ICC) Library--Eastern Europe Links: Montenegro
From Texas Tech University, annotated links to government, internet search tools (with automatic searches from three search engines), and other useful general resources.
- Montenegrin Association of America
Links to information on Montenegro covering geography, history, religion, politics and other topics.
- REESWeb: East European Studies Virtual Library (Univ. of Pittsburgh)
REESWeb has a comprehensive database of annotated electronic resources for Russia and Eastern Europe which can be browsed by subject, culture, region (including Macedonia) or time period. A keyword search is also available.
- Slavophilia: Slavic and East European Resources
Web site contains an extensive collection of links, many of them annotated, accessed through a subject index, country index and search engine. Yugoslavia links are organized by subject category, with the language of each external web site (Bosnian, English, etc.) identified.
- Sources on the Balkan Peninsula: Yugoslavia
A collection of links compiled by the Hellenic Resources Institute and posted on their network, covering news sources, agencies, organizations, political parties, and lists of links from commercial search engines such as Yahoo! and Alta Vista.
Government Agencies and International Organizations
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
International Crisis Group (ICG)
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
United Nations
- ReliefWeb: Balkans The Latest
ReliefWeb , a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has a database of the latest news and reports on the humanitarian crisis in Macedonia and the Balkans. The database can be searched by month going back to December 1997, by source (organization name), by format or type of report, or by the latest news first. Keyword search capability is available, as are links to related reports. Yugoslavia: The Latest country information has additional material and links. Within country listing, related links include background information and topics such as refugees and IDPs with a link to IDPs in Macedonia from the Global IDP Project on internally displaced persons. ReliefWeb also includes a map center , site map and search capability.
- ReliefWeb: Balkans: The Latest
ReliefWeb , a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has the latest news and "humanitarian response information on current emergencies and countries of concern" in its section on complex emergencies . Also includes documents and related links organized by by country , a map center , and site map and search capability.
- United Nations Home Page (UN)
Home page of the United Nations, with links to databases, documents, publications, conferences, events, organs of the United Nations, including the Security Council , and other resources.
- UNHCR: Country of Origin and Legal Information
The web site for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has databases for country of origin and legal information documents and reports. Pull-down menus allow selection by country and/or subject and a specific search engine feature is also provided. Each country compilation includes links to country reports, legal documents, news and maps.
United States
Human Rights and Refugees
- Annual Report 2001: Montenegro
From the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, this section of a 2001 comprehensive report (on events in 2000) focuses on Montenegro, and includes sections on legislation, elections, independence of the judiciary, religious intolerance and misconduct by the military.
- IDPs in Yugoslavia (Federal Republic of)
From the Global IDP Project database, several categories of data regarding patterns of displacement, return and resettlement, property issues, humanitarian access, for example.
- Montenegrin Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
From the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, this web page provides background information, contacts and a description of current projects.
- Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: 2001 (Section on Montenegro)
The U.S. State Department's extensive report on human rights in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 4, 2002. Reports for 2000 and previous years 1993-1999 are available online.
Maps and Guides
- CIA Factbook: Serbia and Montenegro
Basic facts on Serbia and Montenegro prepared by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
- Political Map of Serbia
Maps detailing political, ethnic, economic, etc. terrain in Serbia, prepared by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Part of the larger Balkans Regional Atlas , which also covers Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
- Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) Maps
Maps from the Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection of the University of Texas at Austin. These maps were produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Mapping Agency.
Media and News Sources
Updated: March 6 2002
Links:
[1] http://www.usip.org/resources-tools/usip-library/regional-resources#Europe
[2] http://www.usip.org/countries-regions/montenegro
[3] http://www.usip.org/resources/montenegro-web-links#general
[4] http://www.usip.org/resources/montenegro-web-links#gov
[5] http://www.usip.org/resources/montenegro-web-links#hr
[6] http://www.usip.org/resources/montenegro-web-links#maps
[7] http://www.usip.org/resources/montenegro-web-links#news
[8] http://www.usip.org/resources/montenegro—and-more—-risk
[9] http://www.usip.org/resources/serbia-and-montenegro-reintegration-divorce-or-something-else
[10] http://www.usip.org/resources/taking-stock-and-looking-forward-intervention-balkans-and-beyond
[11] http://www.usip.org/programs/initiatives/balkans-initiative
[12] http://www.usip.org/library/regions/montenegro.html#top
[13] http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/serbia.html
[14] http://www.lib.ttu.edu/ICC/links/eeulist.htm#mont
[15] http://www.montenegro.org/
[16] http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/
[17] http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/scgi-bin/rees/rees2000/startsearch.pl
[18] http://regulus.cis.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/nreesweb
[19] http://www.slavophilia.net/
[20] http://www.slavophilia.net/yugo.htm
[21] http://www.hri.org/nodes/balkans.html#Yugoslavia
[22] http://www.mfa.gov.yu/Facts/laws/const_yu_e.html
[23] http://www.mfa.gov.yu/Facts/laws/const_cg_e.html
[24] http://www.mfa.gov.yu/Facts/facts_cg_e.html
[25] http://www.gov.yu/
[26] http://www.crisisweb.org/
[27] http://www.crisisweb.org/projects/program.cfm?typeid=3
[28] http://www.crisisweb.org/projects/project.cfm?subtypeid=10
[29] http://www.osce.org/
[30] http://www.osce.org/odihr/
[31] http://www.legislationline.org/
[32] http://www.legislationline.org/index.php?topic=1&subtopic=0&subsubtopic=0&intst=0&eu=0&country=16
[33] http://www.osce.org/odihr/documents/reports/election_reports/
[34] http://www.osce.org/odihr/documents/reports/election_reports/yu/
[35] http://www.osce.org/odihr/documents/reports/election_reports/yu/mnt_reflaw_nov2001.php3
[36] http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vLCE/Balkans?OpenDocument&StartKey=Balkans&Expandview
[37] http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf
[38] http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/ByCountry/Yugoslavia?OpenDocument&StartKey=Yugoslavia&Expandview
[39] http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vBS?OpenView&StartKey=The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Refugees and IDPs&ExpandView
[40] http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wCountries/Macedonia
[41] http://www.idpproject.org/
[42] http://www.reliefweb.int/w/map.nsf/Home?OpenForm
[43] http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/WCE?OpenForm
[44] http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/WCT?OpenForm
[45] http://www.un.org/
[46] http://www.un.org/Overview/Organs/sc.html
[47] http://www.unhcr.ch/research/rsd.htm
[48] http://www.usaid.gov/
[49] http://www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2000/pr000131.html
[50] http://www.usaid.gov/hum_response/oti/country/serb/index.html
[51] http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pdq/wfarchive.htm
[52] http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/serbia_montenegro_hp.html
[53] http://secretary.state.gov/www/briefings/statements/2000/ps000203d.html
[54] http://secretary.state.gov/www/briefings/statements/1999/ps990330.html
[55] http://www.eucom.mil/AOR/Europe/Serbia.htm
[56] http://www.ihf-hr.org/reports/ar01/Country issues/Countries/YU_Montenegro.pdf
[57] http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/IdpProjectDb/idpSurvey.nsf/wCountries/Yugoslavia (Federal Republic of)
[58] http://www.ihf-hr.org/monthc.htm
[59] http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eur/8369.htm#mn
[60] http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/
[61] http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/hrp_reports_mainhp.html
[62] http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sr.html
[63] http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/balkan/serbia1.html
[64] http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/balkan/regter.html
[65] http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/serbia.html
[66] http://www.b92.net/
[67] http://www.real.com/products/player/index.html?src=productsmain
[68] http://mediafilter.org/Monitor/
[69] http://www.eurasianews.com/erc/0falkan.htm#montenegro
[70] http://www.antenam.org/
[71] http://www.rferl.org/
[72] http://www.rferl.org/newsline/4-see.html
[73] http://www.rferl.org/balkan-report/
[74] http://www.rferl.org/southslavic/
[75] http://www.rferl.org/nca/special/YU2000/