Starting from Scratch: The Role of Media Assistance in the Establishment of Independent Media Institutions in Kosovo
Starting from Scratch: The Role of Media Assistance in the Establishment of Independent Media Institutions in Kosovo

Author(s): Naser Miftari
Contributor(s): Tarik Jusić (Editor), Kristina Irion (Editor), Sanela Hrlović (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics, Media studies, Governance, Communication studies, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Public Finances
Published by: Analitika – Centar za društvena istraživanja, sva prava pridržana
Keywords: Kosovo; media; independent media institutions; media assistance;
Summary/Abstract: Kosovo is a Western Balkans state bordering Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania. It was the last administrative unit to emerge as an independent state out of the former Yugoslavia, where it had the status of an autonomous province within Serbia. With the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the tensions between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs escalated into a full-fledged conflict between Serbian forces, loyal to the regime of Slobodan Milošević, and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The conflict ended after an extensive NATO military intervention that forced Serbia to withdraw from Kosovo in 1999 and led to the creation of the Kosovo protectorate under the supervision of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). UNMIK administered Kosovo until the country proclaimed independence on February 17, 2008. Following independence UNMIK began to downsize and the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) was introduced. This development followed the conditions set forth in a UN endorsed plan for an internationally supervised independent Kosovo.

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