Five Years of UN administration in Kosovo: an Evaluation

After five years of UN administration in Kosovo progress is mixed. The pace of economic recovery is slow, respect for minority rights wanting, the functioning of the public administration is still marred by many inefficiencies, and the status of a future Kosovo remains uncertain and contentious. Amidst this somewhat disappointing balance sheet the UN’s ordering of priorities, first standards than status, is increasingly contentious. Restructuring economy, society and the state without agreement on the final status of Kosovo may seem to some like building a house without a blueprint. However, alternatively it has been argued that without progress towards a functioning economy, an efficient administration, and equitable and transparent law enforcement, the trust between Kosovos’ ethnic groups, on which any consensus on a final status is contingent may never be rebuilt.

This one-day workshop aims to draw up a partial balance sheet of five years of UN administration in Kosovo by analysing the central areas of police and justice, economic reconstruction, and democratisation and human rights.

Presenters will be asked to give concise presentations of about twenty minutes in which successful and less successful measures/programmes are introduced together with a view of the lessons that may be learned from these experiences. A discussant will be assigned to each presentation.



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