From brain drain to brain gain?
Why it’s high time for us to come back and reclaim our country.
At Oxford, critical thinking was not only allowed but encouraged.
I was continuously faced with unfounded conspiracies, instead of being allowed to work with the actual data.
Every time I’m back I’m still faced with resistance from the system, but I also always notice positive changes.
When it comes to academia, there are more and more youngsters like me willing to come back and contribute in Kosovo.
This is our country, and it's up to us to fix it.
Furtuna Sheremeti
Furtuna Sheremeti is a criminologist and legal scholar specializing in state crime, state harms, transitional justice and international criminal law. She holds an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Oxford and is completing her PhD at KU Leuven in Belgium. She teaches at the Faculty of Law at the University of Prishtina and serves as a legal consultant to Rexhep Selimi’s defense team before the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
This story was originally written in English.