Pandemic journal

Reflections on trauma, isolation, and past pandemics.

Negotiations to form a coalition government between Vetevendosje and LDK have turned into a fixation over positions of power rather than principles, eroding much of the hope built up by October’s election results.

Aidan Hehir

Srebrenica, Recak and the triumph of the lie

Only a concerted effort to preserve and promote the memories and truths surrounding the atrocities committed in the breakup of Yugoslavia can overcome the rise of the ‘alternative fact' argues Aidan Hehir.

Agron Demi

Happy with being badly educated, poor and isolated

Misguided optimism and accepting Kosovo’s faults in education, health and governance as fate will not resolve the deep-seated issues.

Nora Weller

The uneven commemorative landscape of Kosovo

The commemorative landscape of Kosovo is fragmented, dominated by memorials to ‘heroes’ and ‘martyrs,’ but fails to adequately portray the stories and commemorate the tragic events experienced by innocent people and victims of the war.

Fjolla Hoxha

The artistic genius as a villain

We shouldn’t question why Peter Handke won the Nobel Prize, we should question why we care about this outdated, Euro-centric institution and why the artist must speak for all of humankind.

Jack Robinson

The dream is dead, long live the dream!

While off the pitch issues remain, the Kosovo football team’s first ever attempt to qualify for a European Championship has brought joy to Kosovars across the continent this year, and there is more still to come in the future.

Florian Bieber

Creating a new Casablanca

The French veto on EU accession talks with North Macedonia and Albania ends a chapter in the EU’s long and tortured relationship with the Western Balkans, leaving the region in limbo and weakening the Union’s role in the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue.

Milenko Vasovic

Serbia’s president was real loser in Kosovo election

Whatever the final shape of the new government in Kosovo, it is clear that Serbs will have far less influence on it than the previous one.

Eraldin Fazliu

A victory that goes beyond politics

Sunday’s election results were a political earthquake that will resonate beyond the formation of the next government. The electorate have exhibited a refusal to surrender to the blackmail and nepotism that have been endemic in Kosovar politics for the last 20 years.

Doruntina Baliu

Making higher education work for Kosovo

Negligence and corruption across Kosovo’s private and public higher education institutions is causing social and economic degradation. The new government needs to step up and pave the way for long-term, sustainable development at Kosovo’s universities.

Shkelzen Gashi

Pan-Balkan textbook misrepresents Kosovo’s recent past

The 'Joint History Project' is an attempt to provide educators with a multi-perspective textbook on Balkan history, but its presentation of events in Kosovo omits key incidents, while many that are reported are presented superficially, inaccurately or with a pro-Serbian bias.

Jeta Xharra

Solutions for these elections

While issues related to Kosovo’s neighbors have been the trigger for this and past elections, on the ground the country requires hard work and practical solutions to cure its many domestic ills.

Aidan Hehir

Stopping the rot: Relaunching Kosovo’s foreign policy

Professor Aidan Hehir recommends a more robust approach to dealing with Serbia, a reduced focus on recognition from peripheral states and the pursuit of a genuinely independent foreign policy.

Frank Hantke

Kosovo state must regain the trust of its people

Kosovo’s political elite are squandering the country’s potential for growth. Redistribution and reprioritization of the country’s resources must move away from unsustainable investment and towards the needs of its people.

Shqipe Gjocaj

Kosovo women need answers not an ‘iron lady’

Despite being the only woman running for the position of prime minister in Kosovo’s upcoming elections, Vjosa Osmani is not addressing the needs of the country’s women.

Labinot Leposhtica

Higher salaries will not improve Kosovo’s justice system

Doubling the income of prosecutors and judges will not yield better results in the Kosovo judiciary. Doubling the number of staff, however, will bring Kosovo closer to the desperately needed improvements across the legal system.

Features

Domestic violence shelters keeping their heads above water during pandemic

Telling women’s stories through animation: the 1999 NATO bombing

Schools emptying in Drenica’s villages

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