Blood Feud

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.

Exhibition recalls 1990-1991 blood feud reconciliation campaign

A multimedia exhibition chronicling the ‘90s blood feud reconciliation campaign in Kosovo is set to open tonight in Peja.

Malaj family forgives murder, respecting age-old Albanian tradition

One year after the murder of a nine-year-old boy, his parents forgive the perpetrator's family in a traditional ceremony.


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