From Flamingos to Magpies: Why Transparency Matters

The experience of East Germany and the Czech Republic after communism offers an important point of comparison, even if the processes followed different paths. Lustration became one of the institutional means through which these societies confronted the question of who had participated in the former repressive apparatus and in what capacity. There is an entire literature about the strange and painful experience of opening one’s own file and discovering oneself as the state once watched, classified, and recorded you. Albania never seriously completed such a reckoning with its past.

Read more

Transparenca: Kushti Themelor i Revolucionit të Flamingove

Në Gjermaninë Lindore, në vendet baltike apo në Çeki, procesi i lustracionit shërbeu si mekanizëm institucional për të pastruar hapësirën publike, duke treguar qartë kush ishte pjesë e aparatit shtypës dhe kush jo. Timothy Garton Ash ka shkruar gjatë mbi këtë përvojë, mbi çka do të thotë të hapësh dosjen tënde dhe ta lexosh veten siç e ka parë aparati i shtetit. Shqipëria nuk e kaloi kurrë këtë proces seriozisht.

Read more

Alexandre Buda Une vie à 20 sur 20 In Memoriam

L’aboutissement de ce parcours survint en 2006. Sans avoir suivi le cursus universitaire traditionnel, il soutint devant les professeurs d’Arts et Métiers ParisTech, l’une des plus prestigieuses Grandes Écoles françaises, plusieurs centaines de pages de travaux scientifiques. Il devint ainsi le premier ingénieur d’origine albanaise à obtenir ce diplôme par la rigoureuse procédure française de validation des acquis de l’expérience, une réussite exceptionnelle jusque dans le contexte français. Son nom fut publié au Journal officiel de la République française en qualité de titulaire du diplôme d’ingénieur, distinction obtenue non par le parcours académique traditionnel, mais par la reconnaissance officielle d’une œuvre scientifique et technique d’une qualité exceptionnelle.

Read more