Kosovo: Prison, Structure Prisoners' Rights, and the Treatment of Prisoners

Halili, Xhevdet; Kilgallon, Tristin; Xhemajli, Haxhi

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“…The EU-facilitated political and technical normalization dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia, demanding reconciliation as a condition for EU accession and US support, stagnated in 2017 (Collaku and Shaipi 2015; Morina 2016a). Yet, while enlisting Kosovo’s top government officials, it mostly ignored civilian concerns over war crimes and missing persons as well as demands for apologies and reparation (Ahmetaj 2016; Halili 2016). The need to formulate a comprehensive memorialization strategy, including the national government, is well established in Transitional Justice studies (Brett et al 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We are guided by the question, whether and how this case study provides empirical substantiation of Subotić’s concept of “normative divergence” between local aims, on the one hand, and national and international aims, on the other. Ferdonije’s activism and message seemingly challenges the imperative of “multi-ethnicity” enshrined in Kosovo’s 2008 constitution; international and governmental policies, rhetoric and national strategies aimed at promoting Albanian-Serb dialogue, reconciliation, and political normalization; the efforts of regional reconciliation initiatives such as RECOM 2 led by prominent activists including from Serbia; and leading Kosovar civil society representatives who, since 2016 with presidential support, support transitional justice efforts in inter-ethnically inclusive terms (Ahmetaj and Unger 2017; Halili 2016; Shaipi 2016; CRDP 2017). Her work also contests the preventative role assigned to education in transitional justice through Dealing with the Past (DwP) initiatives.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Longing for Lost Normalcy: Social Memory, Transitional Justice, and the ‘House Museum’ to Missing Persons in Kosovo

Schwandner‐Sievers

Klinkner

2019

Nationalities Papers

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In spring 1999, amidst a wider ethnic cleansing campaign, Serb police forces abducted Ferdonije Qerkezi’s husband and four sons, who were never to be seen alive again. She subsequently transformed her private house into a memorial to the lost normalcy of her entire social world. We trace this memorialization process; her struggle for recognition; her transformation into an iconic mother of the nation and her activism, both for missing persons and against the internationally-driven Serb-Albanian normalization process in Kosovo. From a multi-disciplinary perspective, we critically reflect on the theoretical concept of “normative divergence” in intervention studies. We are guided by social anthropological (including immersive, historical-ethnographic, and semantic) analysis of the core tropes of social memory as both narratively and materially embodied by the House Museum. In systematically juxtaposing these to the normative transitional justice principles of truth, justice, non-recurrence, and reparations, and the overarching international intervention goal of reconciliation, we critically interrogate normative divergence per se. The ethnographic “thick description” of this case study—cognizant of context contingency, victims’ agency and experience, cultural change, and social transformation—points to divergent meanings of these principles as resulting directly from the political and institutional failure to provide key transitional justice goals.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%