I remember how harmless the sentences that begin with “I have nothing against it, but…” once sounded to me. They were spoken by a man who never threatened anyone, but calmly and patiently explained why someone did not belong somewhere. Only later did I realise that this “but” hides an entire mechanism of exclusion. All… »
How the “Guide to LGBTIQ+ Topics for Primary and Secondary School Teachers” could have changed the lives of generations of children and young people in the late 1990s and early 2000s When I watched the morning programme Jutro on TV Prva and listened to Dragan Koprivica and Mitar Šušić speak about a manual intended to… »
The level of political communication in Montenegro has, for some time now, been marked by a serious decline in standards. While this is most visible in Parliament, the problem is much broader – it is present in public appearances, the media, and on social networks. Instead of argument-based dialogue, political discourse is increasingly dominated by… »
Every electoral process, whether direct or conducted in parliament, is based on the rules of electoral mathematics. The will of citizens is expressed through parliamentary mandates, while Members of Parliament subsequently elect holders of other state functions, by majorities that depend on the nature and importance of those functions. This is a common and undisputed… »
The last decade of the 20th century was unprecedented for contemporary Montenegro and the region. Years of state collapse, wars, crimes, destruction, refugees, economic breakdown, humiliation, poverty, and queues for basic necessities defined the period. While wars, war crimes, and destruction remain the most vivid part of collective memory, the economic and cultural consequences of… »
There are many forms of totalitarianism, but they share a common aspiration – to establish complete control over society and to suppress every voice of reason. Consequently, the responses to such regimes, especially those that culminated in the rise of fascism and Nazism in the 1920s and 1930s, had to be multifaceted. Within that resistance,… »
For most ethnic Montenegrins, the year 1918 rightly evokes negative emotions. Although exhausted by the Balkan Wars, Montenegro mobilized its army at the end of July 1914, expressing solidarity with Serbia before any other European state, and fought for about eighteen months on the side of the Allies during the First World War. It was… »
When European students took to the streets in 1968, they demanded social change and the breaking of societal taboos – and in some Western European countries, they also triggered a process of confronting painful parts of national history. In the Netherlands, as historian Tony Judt notes, young people tore down the wall of silence surrounding… »
In a time of identity crisis, history is not merely a discipline that studies the past of human society, it has become a key battleground for political conflict. This is precisely why modern-day Montenegro faces intense efforts to revise historical truth. However, this is not an academic debate or a result of new scholarly insights,… »
These days, we are witnessing yet another announced act of plunder – this time against the state of Montenegro and its citizens. As per the old bad habit, it is being looted by those in power, this time in an particularly amateurish and brazen manner. There is little left in this piece of natural paradise… »