Abstract

The purpose of this Honors project is to provide insights into the current condition of Kosovo’s vetting system, highlight its major drawbacks, and provide recommendations on how to overcome them. This paper discloses that the vetting system, despite being recently established, remains greatly challenged by political implications and the clannish and/or individual decisions to issue or deny security clearances for civil servants, intelligence and police personnel. The study emphasizes that an oversight in the development of the vetting process may come associated with political and material costs, thus, putting the integrity and objectivity of the whole security system in question. This study uses a mixed-method approach that relies on both primary and secondary data, namely desk research, literature review, small-scale surveys and semi-structured interviews.

Publication Date

8-2019

Document Type

Senior Project

Student Type

Undergraduate

Advisor

Venera Demukaj

Campus

RIT Kosovo

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