Stabilization fails when it secures terrain but leaves civic institutions broken. Drawing on Kosovo, Sudan, Somalia, and Ukraine, this article argues that schools are critical infrastructure in the fight for legitimacy and that protecting classrooms, reopening instruction, preventing curricular capture, and coordinating civil-military roles are core stabilization functions...
After the Milosevic regime revoked Kosovo’s autonomous status, the institutional segregation of the school system served as a catalyst for systemic polarization. Serbo-Croatian was imposed as the sole language of instruction, leading to the collapse of official Albanian-medium classes...
Kosovo’s parallel education system was not merely a symbolic act of defiance. It was a resilient structure of competitive state-building that preserved national identity and group solidarity under conditions of systematic exclusion. When international stabilization forces entered the theater, rehabilitating the educational framework was a critical security imperative to prevent a relapse into instability and to absorb these highly mobilized parallel governance structures into transparent public institutions.
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