01331nas a2200181   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260001400043653001300057653003900070653001100109100003000120700002200150245007200172300001000244490000700254520088800261       2015                            d  cFall 201510aconflict10ainternal and external stakeholders10aKosovo1 aAneta Nowakowska-Krystman1 aMarzena Żakowska00aConflict in Kosovo through the Conceptual Framework of Stakeholders  a69-810 v143 a<p>Kosovo has been one of the longest-running ethnic conflicts in contemporary Europe. It can be characterized by the diverse nature of the participating entities and the heterogeneous complexity of their interactions. These aspects violently surfaced during the civil war that lasted for almost two years, from 1998 to 1999. One of the major frameworks for viewing and analyzing the conflict, as well as one capable of seeing to its ultimate resolution, appears to be an assessment of the issues through the conceptual lens of “stakeholders.” This focuses on the specific investments or “stakes”—be they economic, ethnic, historic, or cultural—that each of the participants “holds” in generating the scene of the conflict. This lens provides a significant focus, and is one of the more important research methods employed within the domain of strategic analysis.</p>