The War Resisters' International, an international pacifist network with affiliates in over 30 countries, discussed the war and humanitarian crisis in Kosovo/a at its Triennial conference in Porec, Croatia, 20-26 September 1998
The conference criticised the handling of the situation by intergovernmental bodies and by individual states:
their failure to provide space for negotiations during the prolonged period when the Albanians of Kosovo/a pursued a disciplined policy of nonviolent action
their treatment of Milosevic as a guarantor of peace in the region rathe