1990s

Hava Shala (left) and Myrvete Dreshaj (right) during a discussion on the role of women in blood feuds reconciliation, at the Reporting House museum in Pristina, July 2025. Photo: BIRN

“We’ll do it”: The Women Who Pioneered Blood Feud Reconciliation in Kosovo

From prison cells to the oda—two women from Peja conceived the initiative that would bring an end to hundreds of retaliatory killings between ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in the early 1990s.

Debate on the role of home – schools in Kosovo during the 90s at Reporting House, on March 7, 2025. Photo: BIRN"

Kosovo’s Home Schools in the 1990s, the Most Successful Form of Resistance

On March 7, widely celebrated as Teacher's Day in Kosovo, a discussion took place at BIRN's 'Reporting House' in Prishtina, focusing on the huge role of "Home Schools" in Kosovo during the 1990s, which were created as an answer to government oppression of the Albanian population at the time.

How to build a parallel state

During the ‘90s, Albanians in Kosovo and the diaspora showed tremendous solidarity in helping one another. Why did this solidarity wither after the war, and why is Kosovo assigning monetary value to the voluntarism and sacrifice of those times?

When a monster jests

Review: A musical about Slobodan Milosevic and his wife Mira dresses the ‘Butcher of Balkans’ in jester’s attire - but the tricks at play are neither innocent nor new.

Jericho: The bards of rebellion turn twenty

For Jericho's 20th anniversary year, Prishtina Insight met with Petrit Carkaxhiu, songwriter and lead vocalist, to discuss the band's evolution through their songs.