Gazmend Pula (born in

Pristina Pristina, ; sr, / (, ) is the capital and largest city of Kosovo. The city's municipal boundaries in Pristina District form the largest urban center in Kosovo. After Tirana, Pristina has the second largest population of ethnic Albanians an ...

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) is a Kosovar-Albanian intellectual, human rights campaigner, and is Kosovar ambassador to

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. He is the founder of the Kosovo Helsinki Committee for Human Rights based in Pristina, and has been active in the struggle for the advancement of political and civil liberties in Kosovo, for which he was awarded the US and EU Democracy and Civil Society Award in 1998."Members of the Board of Directors"
''Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeastern Europe''. Link accessed 12 January 2009. In addition to his civic and political engagements, he holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering, and is the author of two books on electrical engineering. Prior to being appointed ambassador by the

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, he held the title of associate professor in 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 ...

, Cathedra for Production and Transmission of Electrical Energy. He is married and is the father of two children.

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