Centre for Civic Education (CCE) recalls that a prosecution service which does not demonstrate accountability cannot enjoy public trust in a society striving for the rule of law. At the same time, accountability must never undermine the autonomy of a prosecutor in a specific proceeding. These two principles must be continuously built and strengthened through… »
Montenegrin non-governmental organisations and activists strongly condemn the attack on the car with Split licence plates carrying supporters from Croatia. Such incidents are absolutely unacceptable, must be strictly punished, and must not be repeated. We do not accept that malicious individuals generate and incite hatred in our country or seek to create discord between us… »
The status of Civic Education as a school subject must be aligned with the European framework for education for democratic citizenship, and its implementation should follow a teaching paradigm based on participation, inquiry, and experiential learning. Civic Education represents a journey that begins with the child and moves towards nurturing responsible, free, empathetic, ethically competent,… »
Centre for Civic Education (CCE), on the occasion of the International Day for Tolerance, reminds of the importance of nurturing tolerance, respect and appreciation of diversity as the foundations of peace, stability and progress in Montenegro. In 2025 we continue to witness a further decline in tolerance in Montenegro. Unfortunately, it is precisely political decision-makers… »
The European path is long but worth the effort, provided that it becomes more than just a political slogan. Otherwise, we will be the best among the bad – and that will not be a European success, but a regional failure, is the conclusion of the new episode of the Centre for Civic Education’s (CCE)… »
The Plenum’s Annual Award for the Fight for Democracy and Human Rights, this year, has been presented to the Free University of Novi Sad, which, in a year marked by student uprisings and profound social upheavals, demonstrated what academic courage looks like. While the institutions were captured, this network of professors and researchers stood with… »
The ideology of the “Serbian World” is a continuation of Greater Serbian projects from the 19th century to the present day, and in order to counter that idea in Montenegro, it is necessary to emphasize the Montenegrin national question and to raise the issue of the functioning of the church as one of the basic… »
The prerequisite for the accession of Western Balkan countries to the European Union (EU) is the building of just states in which criminals sit in the defendants’ chairs, not in positions of power, it was stated during the panel “Democratic Alternatives: Building the European Future of the Western Balkans” at the regional plenum “Cracks in… »
Nationalism and the misuse of religion for political purposes are eroding the democratic foundations of the region and distancing it from European values, and the solutions are not as simple as populists attempt to present them, this was the key message delivered at the official opening of the regional plenum “Cracks in Democracy: Nationalism and… »
If Montenegro wants to remain a credible candidate for European Union membership, it is necessary for the political forces that genuinely share European values to cooperate and jointly lead the reforms, it was conveyed at the first session of the Regional Plenum “Cracks in Democracy: Nationalism and Clericalism in the Western Balkans”, jointly organised by… »