Regional cooperation is important, but the Open Balkan cannot be an alternative for European integration, as it was underlined at the debate on Open Balkan held within the Novi Sad Plenum QUO VADIS BALKAN?, organized by Regional Academy for Democratic Development (ADD), Centre for Civic Education (CCE) and the European Fund for the Balkans (EFB).… »
July 2022
The breakup of Yugoslavia due to the rejection of the democratic solution
“Vojvodina remembers, for a long time and is mostly silent, for too long now. But such humiliations, apart from the time of occupation, are hardly comparable to any period of peace in the last two centuries that it has been on the historical stage”, said historian Milivoj Bešlin, moderator of the second panel “Is the… »
Different answers and methods should be response to fascization of society
With the panel “Activism against the fascism of society” at which spoke Daliborka Uljarević, Executive director of the Centre for Civic Education (CCE), Aleksej Kišjuhas, sociologist and associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, Bojana Selaković, programme director of Civic Initiatives, Aleksandar Jovanović, founder of Progressive Vojvodina Actions, and Goran Miletić, Director… »
Grenades and apples
By: Miloš Vukanović Analyzing all the movements that led to the necessary change of government at the 2020 elections, one narrative that was peripheral at the time, but involved enough to exert a slight influence on the electorate, became increasingly noticeable. Given that the elections were decided by the difference of only tens of thousands… »
Citizens have one set of concerns while politicians have different priorities
The rise in prices is the biggest concern of citizens who do not see an improvement in living standard, but also do not recognize merit-based human resource management of the new Government but pointing out the continuity of the power of the party book over expertise, being reserved towards the changes in the judiciary, and… »
27 years since the Srebrenica genocide
“You survived, and you realized, in fact, how much you died…”, with these words the doctor Ilijaz Pilav explained the feelings of people who, like him, survived the Srebrenica genocide and the Death March, on which from Srebrenica, immediately before its conquest by Ratko Mladić and the Army of Republika Srpska Army (ARS) on 11… »
LGBTIQ persons only ask for the functioning of the human rights protection system
The COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on the general position of LGBTIQ people, their material status and mental state, and a significant part of them also indicates an increase in discrimination and violence against LGBTIQ people during that period, it is part of the observation from LGBTIQ people that were collected during focus groups… »
To the final version of the Draft of Fundamental Agreement with SOC through constructive dialogue
On the occasion of the recently published Draft of the Fundamental Agreement with the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC), the Centre for Civic Education (CCE) warns of the wrong timing to re-actualize this issue, which is subject to numerous disputes in the public. The Parliament of Montenegro is currently awaiting the resolution of key issues for… »