The Reconciliation of Blood Feuds Campaign 1990–1991 was a call for action and unity among the Albanians of Kosovo. The campaign started on February 2, 1990, in Lumbardh, a village in the Municipality of Deçan in northwestern Kosovo, in response to the Serbian media’s misrepresentation of the deaths of thirty-three students who were killed by Serb police forces during protests opposing the revocation of Kosovo’s autonomy by Yugoslavia. The campaign quickly branched out and gained momentum in all Albanian-inhabited lands in Yugoslavia. The result was hundreds of public gatherings, thousands of reconciliations, and the liberation of families from the duty of honor killings. The archival project and exhibition of the Reconciliation of Blood Feuds Campaign 1990–1991 is an attempt to construct a place of living memory, a setting that celebrates storytelling and personal memory, and confronts official narratives, and explores what remembering means.
Edited by Erëmirë Krasniqi
Lead researcher: Erëmirë Krasniqi
Research assistants: Jeta Rexha and Lirika Demiri
200 pages, color photography
Hardcover 27 x 23 cm
Single edition in English and Albanian language
Published by the Oral History Initiative
© 2023
The publication was supported by the Municipality of Pristina and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.