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women’s role

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.

Prishtina Insight is a digital and print magazine published by BIRN Kosovo, an independent, non-governmental organisation. To find out more about the organization please visit the official website. Copyright © 2016 BIRN Kosovo.

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