With NATO and the United States making good on threats to halt the brute handiwork of Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic, DePaul University’s top flight experts on the situation in that region of the world are much in demand. The university has professors who are well-versed in Yugoslavian history from the 14^th century onward and have firsthand knowledge of the conflict in Yugoslavia.

The following two experts are available immediately:

James P. Krokar, associate professor of history, 773/325-1568 (office) or 773/262-3502 (home). Krokar can provide complete historical background on the situation in southeast Europe. He can give an immediate run-up of what’s been happening in the 1980s and ‘90s and he can provide an historical overview back to 1389. He can speak on interethnic relations among the peoples of southeastern Europe (the Balkans) as well.

Thomas Mockaitis, chair of DePaul’s history department, 773/325-7471 (office) or 847/501-2623 (home). Mockaitis has written extensively on civil conflict, including two books and numerous articles on counterinsurgency. He has journeyed twice to Bosnia and Croatia on church–organized peacemaking missions. He has studied the Kosova conflict in great detail and considers "Milosevic’s atrocities to rival Adolph Hitler’s in everything but scope." He believes U.S./NATO air strikes on Yugoslavian military forces were long overdue. Mockaitis has written a book on civil conflict entitled "Peace Operations and Intrastate Conflict: The Sword or the Olive Branch?" which is forthcoming from Praeger.