"The Balkans and the Budget" a Conversation with Shirley Cloyes and former Rep. Joe DioGuardi
My guests are Mr. Joseph DioGuardi, former Member of the US House of Representative and a candidate for the US Senate from New York, and Ms. Shirley Cloyes, International expert and commentator on the Balkans.
Joseph DioGuardi was the first Member of Congress to bring the issue of Albanian rights in the Balkans to the attention of the U.S. government through a Congressional Resolution that he sponsored as a new Member in 1986. He was also responsible for the first Congressional hearing on Kosova in 1987. In 2010, he was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in NY.
Joe DioGuardi was raised in the Bronx, New York, where he graduated from Fordham Prep in 1958 and Fordham University with honors in 1962. Before coming to Congress, DioGuardi was a practicing CPA who served twenty-two years with the international accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., twelve of them as a partner. In 1984, he became the first practicing certified public accountant ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. In addition to his human rights work while in Congress, DioGuardi took the lead in sounding the call for federal financial reform. After leaving Congress, he established a nonpartisan foundation, Truth in Government, and published a book entitled Unaccountable Congress: It Doesn’t Add Up. DioGuardi currently serves on the board of directors of several private and publicly-held U.S. corporations
He has made more than thirty trips to the Balkans since leaving Congress in 1989 in his capacity as the founding, volunteer president of the Albanian American Civic League.
Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi is Balkan Affairs Adviser to the Albanian American Civic League, a position that she has held since 1995. The Civic League is the only registered volunteer lobby in Washington, DC, representing the concerns and interests of the Albanian people. She has written more than a hundred articles and lectured widely about the Balkan conflict. With her husband, former Congressman Joe DioGuardi, she has made many trips (50 alone and together) to Southeast Europe, including fifteen to Kosova since the end of the war in 1999. She has worked with members of the U.S. Congress to bring lasting peace and stability to the Balkans.
In 1998, Cloyes DioGuardi developed the Civic League’s strategy to oppose the international attempt to unfairly criminalize the Kosova Liberation Army. During the 1999 NATO bombing campaign against Serbia, she appeared, individually and with Joe DioGuardi, on more than fifty radio and television broadcasts. Cloyes DioGuardi is also the creator of “Besa:
An International Albanian Oral History project,” which began in 2004 with the production of a videotape on the role that Albanians played in rescuing every Jew who either lived in Albania or sought asylum there during the Nazi Holocaust. Her “Jewish Survival in Albania and the Ethics of ‘Besa’” was published in the January/February 2006 issue of Congress Monthly, the journal of the American Jewish Congress.
Ms Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi is the former publisher of Lawrence Hill Books, specializing in domestic and international politics. In 1995, she published Yugoslavia’s Ethnic Nightmare, the first book on the causes and consequences of the Balkan conflict written from the perspective of Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Macedonian journalists at the forefront of opposing Slobodan Milosevic’s genocidal warfare in the former Yugoslavia.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Oberlin College and a Master of Divinity, specializing in systematic theology and culture, from Union Theological Seminary. Between her second and third years at Union, she studied the Indonesian language at the University of California at Berkeley and then taught for two years at Satya Wacana University in Central Java, where she directed a program on interethnic relations and development. Her latest article on the Balkans and Albania is below: www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/albanians-stand-at-a-perilous-crossroads
Joseph DioGuardi was the first Member of Congress to bring the issue of Albanian rights in the Balkans to the attention of the U.S. government through a Congressional Resolution that he sponsored as a new Member in 1986. He was also responsible for the first Congressional hearing on Kosova in 1987. In 2010, he was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in NY.
Joe DioGuardi was raised in the Bronx, New York, where he graduated from Fordham Prep in 1958 and Fordham University with honors in 1962. Before coming to Congress, DioGuardi was a practicing CPA who served twenty-two years with the international accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., twelve of them as a partner. In 1984, he became the first practicing certified public accountant ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. In addition to his human rights work while in Congress, DioGuardi took the lead in sounding the call for federal financial reform. After leaving Congress, he established a nonpartisan foundation, Truth in Government, and published a book entitled Unaccountable Congress: It Doesn’t Add Up. DioGuardi currently serves on the board of directors of several private and publicly-held U.S. corporations
He has made more than thirty trips to the Balkans since leaving Congress in 1989 in his capacity as the founding, volunteer president of the Albanian American Civic League.
Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi is Balkan Affairs Adviser to the Albanian American Civic League, a position that she has held since 1995. The Civic League is the only registered volunteer lobby in Washington, DC, representing the concerns and interests of the Albanian people. She has written more than a hundred articles and lectured widely about the Balkan conflict. With her husband, former Congressman Joe DioGuardi, she has made many trips (50 alone and together) to Southeast Europe, including fifteen to Kosova since the end of the war in 1999. She has worked with members of the U.S. Congress to bring lasting peace and stability to the Balkans.
In 1998, Cloyes DioGuardi developed the Civic League’s strategy to oppose the international attempt to unfairly criminalize the Kosova Liberation Army. During the 1999 NATO bombing campaign against Serbia, she appeared, individually and with Joe DioGuardi, on more than fifty radio and television broadcasts. Cloyes DioGuardi is also the creator of “Besa:
An International Albanian Oral History project,” which began in 2004 with the production of a videotape on the role that Albanians played in rescuing every Jew who either lived in Albania or sought asylum there during the Nazi Holocaust. Her “Jewish Survival in Albania and the Ethics of ‘Besa’” was published in the January/February 2006 issue of Congress Monthly, the journal of the American Jewish Congress.
Ms Shirley Cloyes DioGuardi is the former publisher of Lawrence Hill Books, specializing in domestic and international politics. In 1995, she published Yugoslavia’s Ethnic Nightmare, the first book on the causes and consequences of the Balkan conflict written from the perspective of Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Macedonian journalists at the forefront of opposing Slobodan Milosevic’s genocidal warfare in the former Yugoslavia.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Oberlin College and a Master of Divinity, specializing in systematic theology and culture, from Union Theological Seminary. Between her second and third years at Union, she studied the Indonesian language at the University of California at Berkeley and then taught for two years at Satya Wacana University in Central Java, where she directed a program on interethnic relations and development. Her latest article on the Balkans and Albania is below: www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/albanians-stand-at-a-perilous-crossroads
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