` (UTC)  ::Well, ``fiddling with borders and awarding land for ethnicity`` was just what happened with Kosovo's de facto independence, and has often been used by the ``international community`` over the past 100 years to solve conflicts, beginning with the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire in 1918 and ending with South Sudan's secession last month, and it seems to be quite succesful, on the large. And given the strong condemnation of ``ethnic cleansing`` by the international community, no government would seriously try do to this unless they want to provoke military intervention (as happened with Serbia when they tried this with Kosovo). I think that splitting Kosovo may well solve this conflict, if Serbia recognises ``South Kosovo``'s independence in exchange for this de facto territorial gain.   14:25, 7 August 2011`