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Kosovo
1.0% annual new-conflict probabilityHow to read these probabilities: Scores estimate the probability of a new armed conflict starting within the next 12 months. Ongoing conflicts can have a saturation effect, reducing the modelled probability of an additional conflict onset. A low or falling score does not imply less severe ongoing fighting or a safer country.
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Risk assessment
Risk profile
The 12-month probability of a new armed conflict on Kosovo’s territory is 1.0%, representing a low risk. Kosovo’s history of war, unresolved status, fragile intercommunal relations, and limited institutional capacity sustain exposure, particularly around the predominantly Serb northern municipalities.
Recent reporting supplied for this assessment contains no specific new escalation involving Kosovo, Serbia, the Kosovo authorities, or armed groups. The principal potential actors remain Kosovo’s security institutions, Serbia, and Serb communities and political networks in the north; no prediction market is available.
The largest uncertainty is whether political disputes could again turn into sustained armed violence rather than remaining within negotiations, policing, or limited confrontation. Risk would rise most clearly after organised attacks, armed mobilisation, or a breakdown in security arrangements in northern Kosovo; sustained dialogue, effective policing, and practical cooperation between Pristina and Belgrade would support containment.
Strategic reasoning
- Kosovo’s 1998–99 war and recurring post-war tensions leave unresolved territorial and communal disputes, while institutional fragility increases the chance that a crisis could escape political control.
- The absence of a supplied current escalation involving Serbia, Kosovo’s authorities, or northern armed networks is a stabilising feature, although it does not remove the possibility of a rapid localised crisis.
Critical indicators
- No specific dated escalation in Kosovo is identified in the supplied recent reporting; the relevant continuing fault line is the relationship between Pristina, Belgrade, and Serb-majority northern municipalities.
- Kosovo’s 1998–99 armed conflict and the later recurrence of violence in the north show why disputes over sovereignty, policing, and local governance remain relevant to new-onset risk.
Probability trend
How the Kosovo estimate has moved
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Current conflicts
Source: UCDP
No active conflicts in Kosovo.
Regional context
Kosovo compared with its neighbours and region
Kosovo ranks number 109 of 196 in new conflict outbreak risk.
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