CESA Publications

Together or alone? The need for increased Albanian-Dutch cooperation to fight transnational organised crime   Authors: Alban Dafa, Researcher governance and security at IDM and Wouter Zweers, Research Fellow at Clingendael   In recent years the Netherlands has voiced security-related concerns about the involvement of Albanian nationals in organised crime …

Newsletter “Integrity-Accountability-Partnership”  This newsletter aims to inform on the experiences and to raise awareness, promote debate and influence the policy makers for more effective policies to strengthen integrity and fight against corruption in the State Police. Our, experience so far shows that the local institutions, namely the police, the municipality …

Monitoring Report on the Police Vetting Process 2020 IDM is monitoring the implementation of the transitional evaluation of employees of the State Police (SP), Republican Guard (RG) and the Service for Internal Affairs and Complaints (SIAC). This monitoring report comprises information and data from official documents and administrative reports, input …

Report | Human Right Defenders in Albania November 2019 – Over the last two decades, Albania has made significant progress in promoting and enforcing human rights and fundamental freedoms. Although human rights defenders have played an instrumental role in these achievements and the advancement of human rights, democracy and the …

Assessment Report on State Police Ethics and Integrity June 2019 – This assessment report on police ethics and integrity examines the integrity in the State Police (SP) in Albania and the need to enhance the police organization’s integrity as a tool to prevent and curb corruption. The purpose of this …

Analysis: The uncertainty of EU enlargement June 2019 – In his “Brief history of time” Stephen Hawking argues that Heisenberg’s “uncertainty principle is a fundamental feature of the universe we live in”. In Hawking’s words – we can tell how the universe will develop if we know its state at …

IDM Annual Report 2018 The annual report provides an overview of IDM’s main activities, research and finances and takes stock of the institutes’achievements and impact during 2018. In 2018, IDM expanded its work towards assisting state institutions at central and local level in order to improve governance, accountability and integrity. Furthermore, …

Analysis: Curbing Political Influence on Anti-Corruption Agencies: The case of Albania |2018 This paper was a contribution to the Aspen Conference proceedings on “Curbing political Curbing Political Influence on Independent Institutions in the Western Balkans“ on September 3-6, 2018 in Skopje. Click to download the Albanian and English version. 

Country case study: Community Perspectives on Preventing Violent Extremism in Albania November 2018 – This research focuses on the community as the primary unit of analysis and its main purpose is first to help reveal what factors and actors make communities resilient or vulnerable towards violent extremism (VE) and how …

Study “Violent Extremism in Albania”  November 2018 – Three years after the first assessment of the phenomenon of violent extremism (VE) in Albania (Religious radicalism and violent extremism in Albania, 2015), IDM has re-examined the state of affairs through a comprehensive assessment of drivers and other factors leading to, or …