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- Blog ! . All commentaries will be published here. [24.10.06]

- The AppleTree.Poem about understanding. [21.09.05]

- To-stemthet. Poem about togetherness. [15.12.04]

- Transforming Ethnic Nationalism - the politics of ethno-nationalistic sentiments in Kosovo published here in full version (205 pages) in PDF format. [31.05.03]

- Is Kosovo Modern Enough? Article written for the JAVA Magazine. [19.04.02]

- Field Research in Conflict Societies - Methodological Problems. Article for the Post-Graduate Student's Year Book 2002. [08.04.02]

- The Potential of the 'Kosovar' Identity in Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Kosovo. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association Conference in New Mexico, USA. [14.02.02]

- The concept of Ethnicity, State and Nationalism applied on Kosovo. Written for JAVA in Kosovo. [28.01.02]

- Chapter 1 - Introduction of thesis on "Transforming Ethnic Nationalism" Draft v. 3.1 [22.01.02]

- Transformimi i Nacionalizmit Etnik-Bashkimit Etnik si dhe Mundësia e Paraqitjes së Identitetit 'Kosovar' [Transforming Ethni Nationalism and the Formation and Potential of the 'Kosovar' Identity]. Published in JAVA Magazine in the Albanian dialect 'Gheg' (as spoken in Kosovo) [02.01.02]

-The Norwegian Language Debate. Written for JAVA magazine in Kosovo that promotes the usage of the Northern Albanian 'Gheg' in Kosovo as opposed to the official Albanian language in Albania.

- Dynamic Classification of Ethnic Incorporation. Revitalising Handelmann's table in order to see changes in ethnic incoporation. [17.12.01]

- Transforming Ethnic Nationalism Draft paper (v.2.9) Published for Public Review (17 p). [16.12.01]

- Photos from six months stay in Kosovo working for the OSCE [16.12.01]

- The usage of the Albanian Flag in Kosovo - traces of transformation in ethno-nationalistic sentiments? One of the key points in my thesis. [April 2001]

- Albansk Nasjonalisme og ideen om Stor-Albania: en oppklaring av albansk regional politikk i Serbia, Makedonia og Kosovo [Albanian Nationalism and the idea about 'Greater Albania': analysing the regional albanian politics in Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo].[April 2001]

We live in a global economy - ATTAC too! Comment about the recent development of the ATTAC movement. [16.04.01]

- Popular Patriotic Songs in Kosovo. Some of the most popular modern songs in Kosovo today translated into english (preliminary translation). [December 2000]

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We live in a global economy - ATTAC too!

[This article was published 16.04.01 on the discussion forum for ATTAC Norway]

More and more do I get the feeling that ATTAC is presented and perceived by its members as an anti-globalisation movement. This greatly disappoints me. We live in a global economy. That is not what we should fight against. We should fight against lack of control and good governance of the new economy in fair manner that enhances stability. Our argumentation must therefore also build upon the fact that good regulations and certain state control of the marked forces are preconditions for a stabile economic development. Even financial moguls like George Soros and the World Bank has acknowledge that "good governance" greatly increases the efficiency and deceases the risks of investments. The new global economy gives new possibilities that the state authorities cannot handle nationally. Therefore we need international organisations like ATTAC, who can push for international agreements and regulations that are not popular in the private sector, and that the different states cannot impose alone.

Do not destroy the recruitment potential of ATTAC by presenting ATTAC as a movement against the new economy and globalisation as such … dreaming about "the possibility of another world", as a boardmember wrote in a almost religious statement from the interim administration of ATTAC Norway (www.attac.no).

ATTAC is endangered by being placed on the left side of people's mental map, where a centralised economic bureaucracy is set up against the perspective of a periphery-people's democracy. Such a development will place ATTAC on the political left - right axis and looses a lot of power and recruitment potential.

ATTAC was born in and founded upon the new economy. Don't tear down its fundament!