Jolyon Arthur Naegele

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Jolyon Arthur Naegele
Jolyon_Naegele.jpg Jolyon_Naegele.jpg Jolyon Naegele, Prague, October 2022
Born	(1955-04-19) April 19, 1955 New York City, New York, U.S.
🏫 Education	PS 166 High School of Art & Design Naegele studied international relations, German City College of New York (B.A.) School of Slavonic and East European Studies University of London School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Italy and Washington, DC. (M.A.)
💼 Occupation	Foreign correspondent Political analyst Author
👶 Children	Eliska Naegele (daughter)
👴 👵 Parents	Thomas Ferdinand Naegele (1924*-) (father) Rosemary Cushla Naegele b. Hurst (1925–2012) (mother)

Jolyon Naegele (born April 19,1955 in New York, NY) is a former journalist and political analyst based in the Czech Republic. He was Voice of America’s correspondent for Central and Eastern Europe (1984-1994) covering the final years of Communist state rule, the revolution of 1989 and the break-up of Yugoslavia and the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. He subsequently worked as an editor at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) based in Prague (1996-2003). He was chief political affairs officer in the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, UNMIK in Pristina (2003-2017), heading the mission’s Office of Political Affairs for ten years.

Career

Naegele joined Voice of America (VOA) in 1984, working as a correspondent for Central and Eastern Europe covering the region while being based as VOA bureau chief in Vienna (1984-89), Bonn (1989-90) and Prague (1990-94). Naegele’s interview for VOA with Alexander Dubček attracted considerable attention in Czechoslovakia and in foreign news media, including the New York Times.

Czech sociologist and former dissident Jiřina Šiklová in her laudatio in honor of Naegele upon his winning the annually awarded Pelikán Prize, named after Czech politician and journalist Jiří Pelikán, described Naegele as “a great journalist, correspondent, and indirectly the creator of the local culture. With your words, you connected us, who lived here behind the barbed wire borders, protected us, increased our self-confidence and,above all, conveyed the feeling that ‘the world knows what is happening here’. By writing and reporting about us, you helped form domestic and foreign public opinion about local conditions.”

While at RFE/RL between 1996 and 2003, Naegele focused primarily on the Western Balkans, reporting inter alia on post-war reconstruction in Bosnia and Herzegovina, armed conflict and its aftermath in Kosovo and the insurgency in Macedonia, ethnic identity issues and corruption in Montenegro. He also covered the electoral defeat of Slovak populist Prime Minister Vladimír Mečiar and political and ethnic minority issues in Turkey.

In the course of his 14 years at the UN mission in Kosovo, Naegele’s tasks included coordinating direct dialogue between the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government in Pristina and the Serbian authorities in Belgrade, serving as UNMIK’s representative on the Central Election Commission in Kosovo, a task which included monitoring elections. On behalf of UNMIK’s head, the Special Representative of the Secretary General, Naegele also facilitated Kosovo’s participation at annual gatherings of foreign ministers of the West Balkan states with their counterparts from the Visegrád-Four as well as of the South-East European Cooperation Process, where some member states, which did not recognize Kosovo in the first years after its declaration of independence would not otherwise have agreed to permit Kosovo’s participation. Naegele also participated in an OSCE-chaired committee in the drafting of the 2008 Constitution of Kosovo derived from the 2007 Ahtisaari Plan for resolving Kosovo’s status.

Bibliography

• Daniel Kroupa, Monika MacDonagh-Pajerová, Jolyon Naegele, Jan Sokol, Olga Sommerová, The Velvet Revolution 30 Years After, Charles University Karolinum Press, Prague 2019 ISBN 978-80-246-4448-6
• Jolyon Naegele, “Guidelines for Resolving Kosovo’s Future Status” in From Peace Making to Self-Sustaining Peace – International Presence in Southeastern Europe at a Crossroads? National Defense Academy and Bureau for Security Policy at the Austrian Ministry of Defense, Vienna, 2004, pages 183-193
• Jolyon Naegele “Facing the Challenges of the Kosovo Status Process – The International Perspective” in Approaching or Avoiding Cooperative Security? The Western Balkans in the Aftermath of the Kosovo Settlement Proposal and the Riga Summit; National Defense Academy and Bureau for Security Policy at the Austrian Ministry of Defense, Vienna, 2007, pages 59-69
• Jolyon Naegele, “The Case of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo” in Economic Impacts of Crisis Operations – An Underestimated Factor in External Engagement; National Defense Academy and Bureau for Security Policy at the Austrian Ministry of Defense, Vienna, 2010, pages 201-210
• Jolyon Naegele, Book Review: Ioannis Armakolas and James Ker-Lindsay: The Politics of Recognition and Engagement: EU Member State Relations with Kosovo

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