Arben Qirezi
Arben Qirezi is a PhD in Political Science from the National University of Ireland, Galway. His dissertation is on the topic ‘Intervention, Consociationalism and De Facto Partition: The Role of the External Dimension in Shaping Post-war Kosovo 1999-2012". His Master thesis (1999), completed at Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset, Madrid, focused on New International Terrorism, analyzing the relationship between religion and terrorism as a then, yet unknown phenomenon. In 2015, he spent one semester at the University of California San Diego as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. He has over 20 years of experience in research, teaching, government, political and international affairs, negotiations as well as media and civil society. As a secretary general and member of the working group on constitutional issues of the Kosovo negotiating team for Kosovo final status negotiations, he designed and negotiated the electoral system reform phasing out the reserved seats in favor of guaranteed seats for minorities, which has been implemented in the post-independence period. He has done research for a number of organizations including Westminster Foundation for Democracy, UNDP, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network. His main research interests and areas, are comparative politics, POwer-sharing, democratization, security, ethnicity, violent extremism, international intervention, and Balkans, Turkey and Middle East, respectively.
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10000 Prishtina, Kosova
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10000 Prishtina, Kosova
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conflict towards creating institutional frameworks that can help manage divisions and promote peaceful coexistence. In situations where mutual trust is lacking and deepseated ethnic, religious, or linguistic divisions persist, it is unrealistic to anticipate that minority groups would willingly grant unrestricted decision-making authority to the majority. Consequently, the notion of constraining the majority’s decision-making powers on specific matters, unless it has the consent of minority groups
through the implementation of veto rights, has become a fundamental principle for negotiating post-conflict institutional arrangements. This article aims to investigate the practical ramifications of veto rights within consociational systems, focusing on their incorporation into Kosovo’s legal framework post-2008 and their actual implementation in the years that followed. The article seeks to shed light on how veto rights contribute to consensus-based decision-making, the potential for disruption when exploited by irresponsible political leaders, and the possibilities of revisiting these arrangements to address any shortcomings.
A total of 21 experts, including public institutions officials, civil society activists and religious leaders participated. Participants were recruited based on their expertise and functions in various religious issues and bodies, central and local public institutions, educational institutions and civil society, as well as based on their involvement in both prevention and countering of radicalization and violent extremism
conflict towards creating institutional frameworks that can help manage divisions and promote peaceful coexistence. In situations where mutual trust is lacking and deepseated ethnic, religious, or linguistic divisions persist, it is unrealistic to anticipate that minority groups would willingly grant unrestricted decision-making authority to the majority. Consequently, the notion of constraining the majority’s decision-making powers on specific matters, unless it has the consent of minority groups
through the implementation of veto rights, has become a fundamental principle for negotiating post-conflict institutional arrangements. This article aims to investigate the practical ramifications of veto rights within consociational systems, focusing on their incorporation into Kosovo’s legal framework post-2008 and their actual implementation in the years that followed. The article seeks to shed light on how veto rights contribute to consensus-based decision-making, the potential for disruption when exploited by irresponsible political leaders, and the possibilities of revisiting these arrangements to address any shortcomings.
A total of 21 experts, including public institutions officials, civil society activists and religious leaders participated. Participants were recruited based on their expertise and functions in various religious issues and bodies, central and local public institutions, educational institutions and civil society, as well as based on their involvement in both prevention and countering of radicalization and violent extremism