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Dossier “KIJAC” It all began with two friends who were in need of money. The first one, who was going to be appointed political adviser to the first Prime Minister of independent Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, was broke yet aspired a PhD title; the second one had many years of experience in Kosovo as international staff which led him to grow a slight frustration, fortified with personal crisis at the same period. Under these circumstances, he decided he was going to play his last game in Kosovo – to make money. They opened a Journalism faculty. As if it was a movie plot, Dukagjin Gorani, currently political advisor to Prime Minister Hashim Thaci, and Willem Houwen, former senior official at the OSCE mission in Kosovo, started the biggest financial scandal in the field of journalism in post-NATO Kosovo, implying the Foreign Ministry of Norway, Cardiff University of Britain, the Kosovo Ministry of Education, Norwegian School of Journalism “Gimlekollen” and approximately - 7 million euros in funds.
From the left: Willem Houwen and Dukagjin Gorani In the article «Kosovo's Fresh Start », Kaare Melhus 1 , the name that would soon become the leading name in the launch of this project, writes « the senior advisor at the OSCE Media, Willem Houwen, believes that the training of journalists should be institutionalized. A representative from the press of NATO's forces in Kosovo, Kenneth Andresen, was also a journalism teacher at the School of Journalism and Communication Gimlekollen of Norway. Norway's Foreign Ministry was approached through Gimlekollen for funds and so they were secured for the launching of the faculty. Gimlekollen was entrusted for the role of leadership in creating KIJAC ». Hence, it was the School of Journalism and Communication Gimlekollen of Norway that generated the money from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway and took over the launching of this faculty, which was also often called, the Institute of Professional Journalism in Kosovo. Through the portal « Global Journalist » Mr. Melhus wrote and informed the global opinion of journalism about KIAC, « founded in 2005, the Kosovo Institute of Journalism and Communication (KIJAC) has produced 25 candidates for master's (MA) in journalism each year ». What was the role of the political advisor to the prime minister Hashim Thaci? During the five years of existence of KIJAC, Dukagjin Gorani and Willem Houwen, were the 'faces' and the public contacts of the project. Dukagjin Gorani, who had not yet succeded to obtain a degree in any faculty in Kosovo, did not aspire a Bachelor degree, neither a M.A. degree, but he wanted to ‘catapult’ himself directly to a – Ph.D degree. Mr. Kaare Melhus writes, « Dukagjin Gorani heads the KIJAC Center and is responsible for non-academic training and production of TV programs. The technical equipment also generates income. Politicians and bureaucrats from various government ministries, including the Office of the Prime Minister, receive media training paid by the United Nations Development Program... » 2 1 Kaare Melhus is an international director of Gimlekollen School of Journalism and Communication, at Kristiansand in Norway. http://www.globaljournalist.org/stories/2009/03/31/kosovos-fresh-start/ 2 http://www.globaljournalist.org/stories/2009/03/31/kosovos-fresh-start/
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