I used to work with a Serbian woman (a very hard worker, trustworthy and intelligent) and asked if it was possible to figure out who owned the parcels of land there. She looked at me as if she had never thought of that. I said, if we didn't have land title in the US we'd be fighting like that too. But property rights keeps us civilized because we want to protect our rights and those of our fellow property owners (at least in theory). We take out our differences in court, not on the streets.
She slowly nodded her head, but there was much more to the problem than that. Communism made things worse, as it always does.
79% of Kosovo land belonges to either Serbs either Orthodox Church.
Just another reason to despise Communism.