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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.
Judicial control of administration in Kosovo
(AAB College, 2025-07-17) Rrahmani, Bashkim
The development of administration went through various phases after the war in Kosovo (1999). Right after the war we cannot talk about the clear administration with the local sense, since Kosovo based on the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 was put under the international civil administration. Ten years later Kosovo Parliament approved the Declaration of Independence after which the Kosovo Constitution was adopted, whose main attribute was to create the state of Kosovo. Thus, based on this, the administration in Kosovo was developed firstly as the internationally organized one; then it was locally organized supervised by the international power and finally it is being developed based on Kosovo Constitution and Kosovo Laws. With this paper author by explaining the process of administration development, using: method of historical analysis, method of comparison analysis, method of systemic analysis, etc., with the specific analysis of the judicial control of Kosovo administration during these phases, as the basic form of the administration control which is exercised by courts in Kosovo. Conclusions and recommendations of the paper are expected to be used not only for academic debates.
Judicial review and political (in)stability in Kosovo
(AAB College, 2025-07-17) Rrahmani, Bashkim
Constitutional Court decisions are crucial for a sustainable and democratic state institution functions as well as a country’s political stability. This article seeks to provide insights into the Constitutional Courts process, the role it plays in providing political stability under normal circumstances, when it is overburdened by a large case load and how that often does not provide satisfactory results for a variety of Kosovo stakeholders. The article also seeks to describe, discuss and analyse the development of Kosovo’s judicial review process, important court composition issues and the legal basis for its activities and procedures, and to discuss the obstacles and political influences in several court decisions which caused ambiguity, political tensions and increased distrust in Kosovo’s political systems and institutions including the constitutional court.
Local Self-Government in Kosovo: The Impact of International Agreements on the Association of Municipalities with a Major Serb Population
(AAB College, 2025-07-17) Rrahmani, Bashkim
This paper aims to explain the organisation and functioning of local governance based on the legal infrastructure of Kosovo and the efforts of its institutions to accommodate international pressure under the existing legal infrastructure, which was specifically created according to international law and international demands. Kosovo has implemented asymmetric decentralisation, through which new special municipalities have been created for minorities, with a specific emphasis on the Serb minority. This was undertaken with the aim of integrating minorities into Kosovo’s constitutional-political system; this objective has been realised quite well, with the exception of four municipalities in the north of Kosovo. All minorities are well integrated, including the Serb minority living in the south of Kosovo. However, pressure for the creation of an Association of Serb Municipalities continues, despite the request for such an association violating Kosovo’s system and constitution, which were created in line with international law and international demands. After elaborating on the Kosovo system, this study will explain certain agreements that, had they been non-ambiguous, would have helped and strengthened Kosovo’s constitutional and political system. A combined methodology, followed by legal, historical, and teleological analyses, supported the authors in achieving the study’s aim; this may further contribute to academic, political, and diplomatic debate in Kosovo and abroad.
Minority Rights in Kosovo
(AAB College, 2025-07-17) Rrahmani, Bashkim
Among many national minorities in Kosovo, there is one that is more protected and that enjoys more rights compared to the others. According to the Kosovo Constitution, The Republic of Kosovo is a multi-ethnic society consisting of Albanian and other Communities, governed democratically with full respect for the rule of law through its legislative, executive and judicial institutions. Based on this definition Kosovo is multi-ethnic which is composed of many communities but in practice one ethnic community is more equal compared to the others. It as an ethnic community appears to be the biggest obstacle for the future developments in Kosovo. The attitudes of this ethnic community for the state of Kosovo determines the Kosovo inner developments; it determines the relationships between Kosovo and Serbia and it could have some impact in the entire region of the Balkans. Using the combined methodology with method of historical analysis, method of legal analysis, method of comparison analysis, method of systemic analysis, the author will describe and explain the position of national communities known as minorities with the specific emphasis on the position of Serbian Minority in Kosovo according to the Kosovo legal system and the international law.