The “Musine Kokalari” Institute is an independent institute that promotes social and democratic values by assisting progressive parties and social organizations in drafting, promoting, and implementing their policies.
We focus on conceptualizing and promoting a more just and equal society, which, by concentrating on the future, strives to overcome divisions, reduce gaps, and establish shared public values based on citizenship, embraced and upheld collectively by all.
The Institute considers it essential and will work towards achieving a much higher social cohesion based on social equality and coexistence among different cultures.
A just and solidaristic society is an open society that embraces diversity and equality among its members, regardless of their ethnic, religious, or gender identity, sexual orientation, social status, or different levels of culture and education.
In this regard, the Institute will focus especially on promoting women’s rights and workers’ rights, cultivating cultural diversity, and achieving a more equitable redistribution of wealth. This also entails increasing the transparency and efficiency of state institutions according to the principles of good governance, economic rationality in social matters, human rights, a clean environment as a human right and a space of equality, as well as enhancing regional cooperation.
Our political and social reality needs to move to another stage of development and interaction. Many of the issues we face today in the Western Balkans, in the form of challenges and problems, are neither new nor unique. Currently, they closely resemble those in many countries of the region, as well as those in European Union member states. Therefore, social and political reforms cannot be made in isolation, nor should we insist that solutions to these problems be entirely original. Consequently, the European Union, as a collection of social and political values, is inevitable in our social and political daily life.
We offer and organize seminars, roundtables, political academies, and conferences; we also write political statements and conduct translations, research, and publications. The goal of these activities is to strengthen internal capacities to write, implement, and promote social and democratic policies. Furthermore, we work to strengthen the social and civic capacities and skills of trade unions, associations, and other civil organizations to raise their voice and effectively articulate their interests.
We believe in the necessity of a much stronger regional networking of foundations, institutes, organizations, and progressive parties, enabling a more meaningful, better-informed, and more effective debate and discussion on the issues and problems we all face—issues that require universal, not particular, solutions.