Nedržavni akteri i praksa zagovaranja nezavisnosti – slučaj Kosova od 1999. do 2008. godine
Non-state Actors and Practice of Advocacy of Independence – Kosovo from 1999 to 2008.

Summary/Abstract: The paper tries to answer the question, whether local, non-state actors can perform formal or informal actions to co-opt proposed institutional structure? If they can, in what way they can and in which phase of the peace-building process is it possible? Using practices, i.e. inter-paradigmatic research program within the history of international relations and Richmond’s theoretical framework, we try to show and to point out to the academic community the existence of the advocating independence practices, and therefore statehood, of non-state actors (ethnic groups) by other non-state actors. Kosovo in the period from 1999 to 2008 is the case study; to be precise, advocacy of the independence of the Albanian community and their Provisional Institutions of Self-Government, in relation to Belgrade, with the help from individual actions of prominent figures – Søren Jessen-Petersen, Kai Eide, Martti Ahtisaari and Carne Ross. We argue that research projects of practices that advocate independence, as a way of co-opting imposed institutional structures within the theoretical framework of local-liberal hybridity, were not represented enough within academia as well as within the proposed framework of inter-paradigmatic research program, with emphasis on the action of local non-state actors.

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