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EQUAL RIGHTS FOR MINORITIES AND THE KOSOVO LEGAL INFRASTRUCTURE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SDG OBJECTIVES
(AAB College, 2025-07-18) Sallova, Donik; Rrahmani, Bashkim
Objective: This article seeks to provide insight into the legal infrastructure and the processes of promoting and protecting the minority rights in Kosovo which goes in direct line with the SDG goals, reduced inequalities and peace, justice and strong institutions. Method: For the needs of the article the combined methodology was used followed method of historical analysis, method of systemic analysis, method of comparative analysis, method of linguistic analysis, method of theory analysis and method of logic analysis. Theoretical framework: this research article is developed under the framework of politics and multiculturalism theories from universalism and natural right along with the liberal tradition to standardization of minority rights. Results and discussion: Article shows that Kosovo has managed to build a sound system to protect human rights. As a state, it has accepted the main instruments of the international law. Moreover, eight of them are included into Kosovo Constitutional system and are directly applicable. The legal infrastructure provides appropriate opportunities for minorities whereas one of the minorities has more opportunities, due to the application of the positive discrimination. This is Serb minority, which being influenced by official Serbian politics, fails in many occasions to use the legal infrastructure which offers Kosovo constitutional and political system. Research implications: The article with the findings belongs to political and legal field and it will contribute further academic, political and diplomatic debate. The provoked in-depth debate among scholars is expected to impact the work of state institutions and their legislative and executive exercises.
Ethnic decentralization in Kosovo
(AAB College, 2025-07-15) Sallova, Donik
The Declaration of Independence of Kosovo on February 17, 2008 was based on the so- called “Ahtisaari package”, prepared by the envoy of the General Secretary of the United Nations, Martti Ahtisaari. The general conditions were related to the democratic and multi-ethnic nature of the state, but particularly they had to do with the granting and guaranteeing the rights of national minorities or minority communities as referred to the document. Among other elements, the proposal presumed that through decentralization of local government and the foundation of new municipalities where minority communities live, to guarantee their self- government as a process of acceptance and integration in the state of Kosovo. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that decentralization and the foundation of new municipalities, especially the Serb community in Kosovo, more than helped with their self-government has led to their disintegration and isolation, deepen even more the separation from the ethnic majority population in Kosovo. The Association of Serb municipalities reached in Brussels on August 2015, demonstrates the tendency of the local Serb municipalities to connect to an autonomous political organisation, as a preliminary phase towards the total boycott of the Kosovo state.
LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF THE IDENTITY POLICY OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN POSTWAR KOSOVO — A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
(AAB College, 2025-07-15) Sallova, Donik
This paper aims to elaborate and analyse the legal context of the identity policy of the international community in post-war Kosovo. Through this policy, the nature of Kosovo was determined as an entity under the UN administration until 2008 and as an independent state after that. Given that NATO’s military intervention in Kosovo was initiated for humanitarian reasons and, therefore, was not an intervention aimed at resolving the historical conflict between Serbs and Albanians, the UN administration in Kosovo was also established by being neutral towards national interpretations on the “issue of Kosovo”. This paper will bring together arguments that the international community, in its approach to the people of Kosovo, has actively tried to establish a new political entity detached from any national projections, thereby preventing it from being perceived as a national victory, especially among the Albanian majority. For this reason, all laws, regulations, governing documents and policies of the UN mission, which delineated Kosovo’s political nature and way of governing, were based on the ‘principle of multi-ethnicity’. This paper also examines the negotiation process for determining Kosovo’s final status, through which independence was conditioned by the commitment to building a state based on the principle of multi-ethnicity.
MULTIETHNIC PRINCIPLES OF ADMINISTRATION AND POLITICS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN KOSOVO
(AAB College, 2025-07-18) Sallova, Donik
This paper aims to present and analyze the multiethnic principles of international community administration and policy in Kosovo during the period of international administration of Kosovo and the period of negotiations for the final status settlement of Kosovo. The international community has been neutral with the political aspirations of the people of Kosovo for self-determination and has implemented a policy that has essentially built a multiethnic political concept on Kosovo as a political entity. The imposition of these multi-ethnic principles in the construction of the state of Kosovo runs counter to many principles of the functioning of democratic states, whose sovereignty derives from the people, and governance is legitimized by the majority through democratic elections. The paper will conclude that despite the compromises made in the nature of the state of Kosovo with regard to the rights of minority communities in Kosovo, especially the Serb minority, the rejection of this minority towards Kosovo's institutions has increased due to the autonomy offered through the constitution, numerous laws and agreements negotiated in Brussels between Kosovo and Serbia.
The denationalization Policy of the International Community in Kosovo
(AAB College, 2025-07-15) Sallova, Donik
This paper aims to argue that the international community, especially the UN and the EU, through their missions in Kosovo, have never supported resolving the Kosovo issue in the context of the Albanian issue in the Balkans. International mechanisms have been against the identification of Kosovo as an Albanian national issue, as they have imposed standards, criterias and policies that lead to the alienation of political identification of Kosovo with what is albanian. Through formulas and slogans on multiethnic society, the international community has made it impossible to build and identify Kosovo as an Albanian national state. By stopping Kosovo's identification with the Albanian nation, making it impossible to unite with Albania by imposing exclusively non-Albanian state symbols, promoting the relativization of Serbia's invasive past in Kosovo through the so-called history review process, the international community in Kosovo clearly has implemented denationalization policies that, as a last resort, after denationalization, would have the creation of the so-called new Kosovo national identity. Through qualitative methodological approaches, the paper will review, analyze and interpret constitutional documents, laws and policies in theoretical and historical contexts to witness the denationalization policy of the international community in Kosovo, namely the failure of this policy to construct Kosovo's new national identity.
THE IMPACTS OF PAST TOTALITARIANISM ON THE TRANSITION PROCESS TOWARDS DEMOCRACY IN ALBANIA
(AAB College, 2025-07-15) Sallova, Donik
More than 30 years have passed since the creation of one of the wildest totalitarianisms of Eastern Europe, the Albanian one. The Albanian totalitarian regime maintained constant control for almost 50 years in every social activity through terror and propaganda. Today, after a long and not easy transition, the country is still trying to find its way to full democratization. The lack of a functional democracy, the classification as a hybrid regime, as a partially free country and with a lack of active citizens as an institution of democracy are just some of the problems that are present in post-communist Albania and that will be discussed in this paper. The purpose of this paper is to offer a different perspective in the way we look Albania's path towards full democratization based on the influence of the totalitarian regime and the need to strengthen the concept of the active citizen and forms of active volunteering as a way to strengthen democracy, starting from a broader concept, from the citizen. The article provides a theoretical and practical perspective of totalitarian and post-communist period of Albania based on reports, statistical data and classic political studies scholar books.