Kosovo Prime Minister Adviser and national coordinator for fight against extremism, Lulzim Fushtica, said at the moment there are over 50 Kosovo citizens at foreign battlefields, while 78 have lost their lives in foreign warfare, Radio kontakt plus reported. Fushtica presented this information on Wednesday at a conference held in Mitrovica North, organized by an NGO Kosovo Centre for Security Studies. “We have a certain number of citizens who are still at these battlefields, we have 53, while 78 of them have been killed, and we have around 150 women and children who are in the hotspots of wa

This article on police corruption was originally published in Sbunker, a Kosovo-based current affairs blog dealing with politics, society, culture and economics. By Plator Avdiu (KCSS) The risk of corruption is challenging the Kosovo Police, diluting the functioning of its internal control mechanisms to fight corruption.

Several media report on the latest Kosovo Security Barometer - a program published by the Pristina-based Kosovar Centre for Security Studies – titled “The citizens’ views against violent extremism and radicalization in Kosovo”. The main findings of the study are as follows: - The general trends show that civilian respondents share more positive perceptions towards religious institutions than state ones.