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IOM KPC Evaluation

By Anna Di Lellio

I. Summary

The Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) was officially constituted in January 2000 as a main feature of the Demilitarization, Demobilization and Reintegration of thousands of Kosovo Liberation Armyís (KLA) combatants. The IOM Training program started in February 2000 with the goal to build the KPC into a viable and effective protection organization responsive to civil authorities.

Background information about the program is provided in the Introduction, with a brief discussion of its design and implementation. In the following chapters, a detailed presentation of the programís direct products, or outputs, will be found.

Community Safety

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This research was supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project KOSSAC.
Theviews presented in this report do not necessarily correspond with the views of UNDP.
Acknowledgements: The report was written by Ms. Anna Di Lellio in the period between September and October 2009.The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the United Nations Development Programme.
Supported by: UNDP,Government of Belgium, Government of Denmark, Government of Luxemburg,
Government of the Netherlands and Government of Sweden.

Publications

Books:

The Battle of Kosovo 1389. An Albanian Epic, London: I.B. Tauris, 2009.

Beteja e Kosovës, Prishtina: Zëri, 2010

Bitka na kosovu u albanskom epu, Beograd: Biblioteka XX Vek, 2010.

The Case for Kosovo. A Passage to Independence, (ed.) London: Anthem Press, 2006.

Editor and Translator of Camille Paglia, The Birds, British Film Institute, 1998 [Gli Uccelli, Liberal Libri, 2000]

I Gay. Colloquio con Edmund White, [Gays. An Interview with Edmund White] Liberal Libri, 1999.

Ribelli contro la Modernitá. Religione e Politica in Due Cittá Post-Industriali: Dallas (US) e Grenoble (Francia), [Rebels against Modernity. Religion and Politics in two Post-Industrial Cities: Dallas (US) and Grenoble (France)] Milano: Franco Angeli, 1993.

Articles and Chapters in Books:

“The Field of the Blackbirds and the Battle for Europe,” in Bill Niven, Ruth Wittlinger and Eric Langenbacher (eds.), Dynamics of Memory in the New Europe, Berghahn Books, 2013.

“La Battaglia della piana dei merli nella memoria albanese: l’invenzione di una tradizione,” in Rassicurazione e memoria – per dare un futuro alla pace. Quanderno 2 della Fondazione Venezia per la ricerca sulla pace, 2013.

“Engineering Grassroots Transitional Justice in the Balkans: The Case of Kosovo,” East European Politics and Societies, XX (X) 2012: 1-20

“The Missing Revolution in Serbia: 1989-2008,” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 22 (3) September 2009: 373-384.

“The Narrative of Genocide as Cosmopolitan Memory and Its Impact on Humanitarian Intervention” Interdisciplinary workshop on Collective Memory and Collective Knowledge in a Global Age, London School of Economics, 17/18-June-2007.

http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/workshoppapers.htm

“The Legendary Commander: The Construction of an Albanian Master-Narrative in Post-War Kosovo,” Nations & Nationalism, 12 (3) 2006: 513-529 (with Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers).

[also in Albanian, “Komandant legjendar:ndërtimi i një master-narracioni shqiptar në Kosovën e pasluftës” Perpjekja, XII (23), 2006: 77-95]

“Sacred Journey to a Nation: The Construction of a Shrine in Post-War Kosovo,” Journeys. The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, 7 (1), 2006: 27-49 (with Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers).

[also in Albanian, “Udhëtimi i shenjtë drejt kombit: ndërtimi i një faltoreje në Kosovën e pasluftës” Perpjekja, XII (24) 2007: 32-54]

“Empire Lite as a Swamp,” Transitions, XLV (1), 2005: 63-79

“Feminism” pp. 235-246 in Gianfranco Pasquino (ed.), La Politica Italiana, Dizionario Critico 1945-95, [Italian Politics. A Critical Dictionary 1945-95] Bari: Laterza, 1995

“Tra Scienza, Etica e Politica: Teorie della Sociologia Interpretativa nel Dibattito Statunitense,” [Between Science, Ethics and Politics: Theories of Interpretive Sociology in the American Debate] Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 4, Ottobre-Dicembre 1990: 581-558.

“Immagine e Storia. La Cittá negli Stati Uniti,” [Image and History. The City in the United States] Democrazia e Diritto, (4-5) 1989: 301-321.

“Le Aspettative Sociali di Durata. Intervista a Robert Merton,” [Socially Expected Durations. Interview with Robert Merton] Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, (1) 1985: 3-26.

Policy Analysis:

Community Safety Report, UNDP, Kosovo, 2009.

Freedom of Movement Report, UNDP, Kosovo, 2009

Small Weapons Collection Campaign Report, UNDP, Kosovo, 2009.

“A Civil Alternative: an Evaluation of the IOM KPC Program,” in International Organization for Migration (IOM), KPC Training Program, Prishtina, 2004.

Comparative Study on Housing for Foreign Workers in Denmark, Germany and France. City of Bologna, 1991

Survey sul Partito Comunista Italiano (With Nino Magna and Renato Mannheimer), anticipating the break-up of the Party into a traditional Communist Party and the Democratic Party of the Left, CESPE

Rapporto sui Finanziamenti ai Partiti Politici in Germania, Francia e Svezia (With Nino Magna and Antonio Missiroli), an analysis of patterns of corruption in both public and private funding of political parties, CESPE.

About Me

I am a sociologist and policy analyst, with a broad range of interests and

experience, from American politics and culture to nationalism, security and statebuilding in the Balkans. My research and publications focus on Kosovo, where I

worked for years, as political adviser to the Prime Minister; Media Commissioner

under the aegis of the Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe

(OSCE); and research analyst and advisor on the Kosovo Liberation Army

program of reintegration for the International Organization for Migration and the

United Nations Mission in Kosovo. I currently teach humanitarian intervention

and the ethics of war at the Graduate Program in International Relations (GPIA)

at The New School, and political communication at the Department of Politics of

New York University.

SALW Report

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As a result of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Yugoslav wars, a legacy of the 1990s in Europe has been the proliferation and trafficking of weapons (Small Arms and Light Weapons, SALW)
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and ammunition. Locally, this equipment is both a source of and
a means for criminal activities. It also turns up in the global illegal market – a development that regional actors such as the European Union (EU) and the Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) deem an urgent security concern.
Kosovo is part of this broader picture. Emerged from a conflict that included the irregular forces of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), since 1999 it has undergone a process of Demilitarization Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR), and several campaigns of weapons seizure and voluntary surrender. Yet, the estimates of illegal weapons possession, no matter how uncertain, are still high compared to collection figures – a gap that must and can be bridged. Contrary to conventional wisdom, which takes Kosovo as a “gun paradise,” the problem is tractable. What is needed is a clear policy that reflects the Kosovo experience, rather than proceed from a series of myths, such as the enduring strength of a “gun culture” linked to ancestral traditions.

Sacred Journey to a Nation: The Construction of a Shrine in Postwar Kosovo

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Abstract
Anna Di Lellio
Independent Scholar
and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers
School of Slavonic and East European Studies,

The site of an infamous Serb massacre of a militant Albanian extended
family in March 1998 has become the most prominent sacred shrine in
postwar Kosovo attracting thousands of Albanian visitors. Inspired by
Smith’s (2003) ‘territorialization of memory’ as a sacred source of national
identity and MacCannell’s [1999 [1976]] five-stage model of ‘sight
sacralization’, this article traces the site’s sacred memorial topography, its
construction process, its social and material reproductions, and adds a sixth
stage to the interpretation — the ‘political reproduction’.