Besa Kabashi-Ramaj
Besa Kabashi-Ramaj, was born in Peja, Republic of Kosovo, on November 23, 1983, and is married and has a son. Currently, she is the Strategic Security Sector Review Coordinator for the Republic of Kosovo,[1] the first nationally owned broad security review in the country since its independence.
In 2011 she became the Security Policy and International Affairs advisor to the Minister for the Kosovo Security Force and in August of the same year she got promoted to Senior Advisor.[2] She has provided the institution with expertise in Strategic Planning & Execution, Strategic Communication, Public Policy Development, Program Management, Institutional Development & Re-organization, Security Sector Reform, Procedure & Process Development and Security and Intelligence.
Education[edit]
Besa Kabashi-Ramaj received her Master of Public and International Affairs (MPIA) / Security and Intelligence Studies Degree at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA),[3] University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, USA.[1]
She has earned academic merit based full scholarships for both, her undergraduate and graduate studies, and subsequently has earned the Dean’s List Award (4 times), the President’s List (2 times) and has been selected for the USA National Dean’s List. She was awarded the Best Delegate Award at Model UN and is a member of the Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in the Social Sciences.[1] In 2012 she was selected by the German Embassy in the Republic of Kosovo to represent RKS for the first time in the Munich Young Leaders 2012.[4]
Research[edit]
Besa Kabashi-Ramaj has done extensive research on: The Security Issues in the Republic of Kosovo, Election Fraud in Nigeria, Zimbabwe and Kenya and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. She has completed a journal article on New Kosovo Security Requirements, the Role of the Kosovo Security Strategy and the Way Forward for Kosovo’s Security Policy (Selected for publication by Swiss DCAF)[5] and while at GSPIA she has completed an Independent Study on the Lack of Reconciliation as a Barrier to Kosova’s EU Integration and an Independent Study on Organized Crime and Corruption as Barriers for Kosova’s Membership in the EU.[1]
Besa Kabashi-Ramaj speaks five languages, Albanian, English, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian and Italian.[1]In her spare time she paints and enjoys voluntary work that relates to arts and children.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Besa Kabashi-Ramaj". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ↑ "Minister of KSF, Agim Çeku and Commander Gen. Kadri Kastrati presented topics on the successes and challenges of the KSF towards its development in the State Programme of cooperation seminar Iowa Kosovo - News and events - MFSK - MKBS - MKSF". Mksf-ks.org. Retrieved 2014-06-20. C1 control character in
|title=at position 197 (help) - ↑ "GSPIA Celebrates 2010 Graduation". Gspia.pitt.edu. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ↑ "Participants". Koerber-stiftung.de. Retrieved 2014-06-20.
- ↑ http://qkss.org/new/images/content/PDF/Participants%20and%20speakers%20list-21%20Feb.pdf
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