Dashnor Kononozi (born 21 June 1951) is an Albanian journalist and writer who founded the National Centre of Cultural Property Inventory (NCCPI) and was also its first director.

Cultural heritage

Kokonozi founded the NCCPI in the early 1990s after the breakdown of law and order in Albania following the ousting of the Communist regime led to looting of cultural heritage objects. Requests to

Interpol The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO; french: link=no, Organisation internationale de police criminelle), commonly known as Interpol ( , ), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and cri ...

for help tracing looted objects revealed a lack of records in Albania and Kokonozi persuaded the

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to fund the creation of the first national inventory.Albania Struggles to Catalogue its Unknown Treasures.
''BalkanInsight'', 30 October 2010. Retrieved 10 November 2015.

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1951 births Albanian journalists 20th-century Albanian writers Living people 21st-century Albanian writers Albanian-language writers Albanian male writers 20th-century male writers {{Europe-journalist-stub