‘Undivided’ city in a divided society : explaining the peaceful coexistence of Albanians and Serbs in Kamenicë/Kamenica, Kosovo

Djordjević, Andjela (author), Zupančič, Rok (author)

The goal of this paper is to examine which factors have influenced interethnic relations between Albanians and Serbs in Kamenicë/Kamenica, which is significantly less hostile compared to other towns in Kosovo. Utilizing a multi-method research approach, we find these factors include historical-demographic, geopolitical, institutional, economic and cultural factors, as well as the work of the members of the international peacebuilding and peacekeeping missions deployed in the municipality of Kamenicë/Kamenica in June of 1999. Based on our findings, the concept of local-local hybridization is proposed as the main theoretical contribution to the theory of hybrid peace. This concept entails long-lasting interactions between ethnic groups in a local (post-conflict) community under different social circumstances and factors that affected their coexistence, whereby this must be supported by peacebuilding and peacekeeping activities adapted to the aforementioned concept if peace is to be sustained.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Kamenicë, Kamenica, Kosovo, hybrid peace theory, local-local hybridization, peacebuilding
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 10.03.2024
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 525–543
• Numbering: Vol. 25, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-176100
• UDC: 323.1(497.115)
• ISSN on article: 1743-9639
• DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2024.2324550
• COBISS.SI-ID: 188629251
• Publication date in RUL: 21.11.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of southeast European and Black Sea studies
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• ISSN: 1743-9639
• COBISS.SI-ID: 386732

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• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: etnični odnosi, Srbi, Albanci, Kosovo

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: N5-0178
• Name: Anksioznost(i) v 'razdeljenih mestih' pokonfliktnih družb: razvoj in testiranje inovativnih (eksperimentalnih) pristopov v procesih izgradnje miru

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0206
• Name: Obramboslovje