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The Quest for an Emancipatory Peace

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Shaping Peace in Kosovo

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This concluding chapter offers a reappraisal and charts the necessary conditions for a more emancipatory form of peace to emerge in Kosovo. The proposed agenda for an emancipatory peace is situated in a delicate balance between the necessity for joint commitments to the state of Kosovo, dealing with the past through an emancipatory reconciliation process, and the promotion of people-centred security. The book concludes by asserting that grounds for emancipation in Kosovo are more likely to take place through self-emancipation and individual actions than organised and collective politics.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Interview by author with a youth activist in Kosovo, Pristina, 28 April 2016.

  2. 2.

    Assembly of Kosovo, Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo. 15 June 2008. Available at: http://www.kuvendikosoves.org/common/docs/Constitution1%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Kosovo.pdf (accessed 18 July 2016).

  3. 3.

    For an overview of UN Development Programme in Kosovo, see http://www.ks.undp.org/content/kosovo/en/home/ourwork/overview/ (accessed 07 September 2016).

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Visoka, G. (2017). The Quest for an Emancipatory Peace. In: Shaping Peace in Kosovo . Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51001-9_7

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