Dauti Dauti was born in 1960 in
Kokaj
Kokaj ( sq, Kokaj ) ( sr-Cyrl, Кокицe-Инатовце/''Kokaj-Inatoc'') is a village in the District of Gjilan, Gjilan district of Kosovo.
Climate
The average temperature is -2 °C. Spring and autumn are cool and rainy, and the summer ...
, near
Gjilan
Gjilan, or Gnjilane ( sr-cyr, Гњилане) is the eighth largest city in Kosovo and seat of Gjilan Municipality and Gjilan District.
Name
Ottoman chronicler Evliya Çelebi mentions ''Morava'' as a settlement of the Sanjak of Vučitrn. ...
, in
Kosovo
Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
. He graduated from the
University of Pristina
The University of Pristina ( sq, Universiteti i Prishtinës) is a public university located in Pristina, Kosovo. It is the institution that emerged after the disestablishment of the University of Pristina (1969–99) as a result of the K ...
Faculty of Law. He continued post-graduate studies at the
University of West London
The University of West London (UWL) is a public research university in the United Kingdom with campuses in Ealing, Brentford, and in Reading, Berkshire.
The university has roots in 1860, when the Lady Byron School was founded, later Ealing Col ...
(former Thames Valley University) and was awarded a PhD from the University of Leeds School of History, on thesis: The British Foreign Policy and the Albanian Question 1876–1914.
After graduation from law school, he started his career as a journalist. His first articles were published in Bota e Re (New World) a student newspaper published by the University of Pristina. He went on to write for weekly magazine Zëri]and from 1994 until 1999 he was a London-based correspondent of the magazine.
From 1999 to 2001 he worked for the
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) is an independent nonprofit organization that claims to train and provide publishing opportunities for professional and citizen journalists.
History
IWPR was founded in 1991 under the name Yugofax. ...
in London as a journalist and editor. He established their Pristina office in 1999. In 2000 he was engaged in establishing the Association of Journalists of Kosovo and served as its general secretary until 2002. From 2000 to 2002 he was also an independent Member of the Central election Committee, a committee of the
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's largest regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization with observer status at the United Nations. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, prom ...
, which organised and oversaw the work of the first and free elections in Kosovo.
During 2002 he embarked on a research program at the
Kettering Foundation
The Kettering Foundation is an American non-partisan research foundation founded in 1927 by Charles F. Kettering. The foundation publishes books and periodicals, employs research fellows, and organizes (through the National Issues Forums) public ...
in Dayton, Ohio. As an international fellow at Kettering he researched subjects in the fields of media and democracy, politics and traditional deliberation among the Albanians. Within this program he has published "Building an Independent Media in Kosovo" (English and Albanian) and "Assemblies and Ancient Deliberation according to Code of Lek Dukagjinit" (English and Chinese).
During 2005 he worked as a media adviser and government spokesman under Prime Minister
Bajram Kosumi
Bajram Kosumi (born 20 March 1960, in Kosova, Kamenica , is
a Kosovar politician who served as the third prime minister of Kosovo for nearly one year. He was nominated by Kosovan President Ibrahim Rugova and elected Prime Minister by the Kosovo ...
. From 2007 to 2010 he worked as a consultant for Albania and Kosovo in the media office of the International Organisation for Migration in London. During these years he continued working as a freelance journalist and independent media consultant. He has also debated the case of Kosovo and other Balkan issues in different media and international forums. In 1996/7 Dauti received his master's degree in European Studies from The University of West London - former Thames Valley University.
In 2017 Dauti got his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds - School of History. The title of his Ph.D. thesis was "Britain, the Albanian Question and the Demise of the Ottoman Empire 1876-1914". His area of academic interest and research is British foreign policy and the Balkans during the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
Notable works
Dauti is author of these books:
#. (Anglo-Albanian reflections)
#. (The war for Trepça)
#. (European Union – from an idea to reality)
#. (Building an Independent Media in Kosovo)
#. ''Assemblies and ancient deliberation according to code of Leke Dukagjini''
#. , 1877–1880 (The Albanian question inside the British diplomacy, 1877-1880)
References
External links
New book about 19th century Albanian history by Daut DautiAncient Public Deliberation and Assembly in the Code of Lekë Dukagjini, Daut Dauti
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1960 births
Living people
People from Gjilan
Kosovan non-fiction writers
Kosovan journalists
Kosovan screenwriters
Kosovo Albanians
Albanian-language writers
University of Pristina alumni
Alumni of the University of West London
20th-century Albanian writers