KOSOVO:
TO GO OR NOT TO GO TEXT: COREY KOHN
of the world is attracting you because you want to help' there intemational aid organizations stationed throughout northern
~~I ..... ...v.ni" and Albania. Do your research before you go. At this point, groups are trying to employ local support before engaging
rtArn,,!inn,,1 volunteers, even if you have medical, technical or language Keep in mind, however, that as the situation develops and variety of skills and degrees of humanpower may be needed. Nations High Committee on Refugees (www.unhcr.ch). CARE Save the Children (www.savethechildren.org), Doctors of (WlIIW .. do,ctorsofthl~w()rlld .org), Doctors Without Borders
'>\tW""Ni.IOWID.oorg) and Americares (www.americares.org) are a few of the 'ItV;m.ni,...ti,nn~ you can contact for information on volunteer opportunities. If you are going as an aid worker, journalist or for any other
it is advised that you check in with your country's embassy upon Most embassy services are available only on an emergency basis, non-essential diplomatic employees have been sent out of the
The massive growth of the Internet in the past decade has shaken the business world to its roots. It is bringing us ever closer to an ABSOLUTE freedorn of easily accessible information. As costs decrease and search engines improve, soon the only barrier to the Internet will be of language and culture-yet even these will dirninish in time with exposure and growth of services. What does this mean for politics? Just as the television has changed the nature of politics forever, the
Internet is already beginning to change the global political clirnate. The war in Kosovo is being called "The first war on the Internet." The Kosovo conflict has given rise to an unprecedented number of emails crisscrossing the globe-instantaneous exchanges of experiences and thought, to and from anywhere on the planet. On the Internet, facts are not regulated by opinions of the few or the
amount of scheduled time or available space. You can research several American websites and then some French, or Brazilian or Chinese sites. It's up to you. The Internet gives empowerment to anyone who seeks it. We are, as
individuals and as a nation, capable of so much. It is time to examine our role as citizens of a community that encompasses the planet. There has been no other time when accurate information has been as readily available, where worldwide tragedies await our attention right at our fingertips. Be passionate, armed with knowledge acquired, not fed. It's there for you-do something with it, and do it well.
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several ways of getting into the (formerly) Yugoslavian area, you will have to be flexible and creative in choosing your route.
tomn~encial flights directly into Kosovo and Serbia are currently not But major European airlines such as Austrian Airl ines
IlWlNW.avl:l.CIJm) and Lufthansa (WIIIW.lufthansa.com) fly to nearby urban The flight destination closest to 'ground zero' of the Kosovo crisis Albania. Non-stop flights from Vienna are the most common, and
most direct. Tirana is 130 miles from Kukes, near the Kosovo and half that from the Macedonian border. The cities of
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