COURSE NAME

BALKAN FOR EUROPEANS

TOPICS

Module 1

• Former Yugoslavia

  • Melting pot of the nations-

- Slavic origin nations or all (Albanians,
  Roma, Hungary)?

• Political and Ideological Compromise of Great powers and/or product of the cold war architecture

• Specific Security System of “All people Defense und Social self defense”

• Defense and Security and role special role of JNA

• Religions and nations in Yugoslavia

• Creation of Yugoslavia: God or false idea

• Common (European) Future of  People of former Yugoslavia
   

• War in Bosnia form 1992 to 1995 

  • Bellum omnia contra omnes

  • Role of international community

  • Islam and Bosnia

  • Important and specifics of Dayton Agreement
     

• War in Kosovo 1999

  • Short history of Kosovo-Problem

  • From Dejton-Agrement to the War 

-   Ethnic criteria and/versus
   international law

-    Milosevics Politic and Strategy

-     Albanians Politic and Strategy 

• Role of international community

• Security and JA
   

• Globalization and the Balkans

  • Neo-liberalism and/versus social state

  • Balkan after 9/11/2002

  • Unfinished transition

  • Revitalization of identity based on faith

  • Quest for new integration models

Module 2

Conflict lines on the Balkans

• Ethnics, religious and national groups on the Balkans

• Mutual dependence of Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro

• Conflict and role of JNA

• Willingness of Balkans societies and inhabitants to live together

• Role of religious communities in the conflict in former Yugoslavia

• Potential of interreligious and intercultural dialogue

Module 3

Who is who?

• Bosnians, Serbs, Croats, Yugoslavians, Others, Muslims, Orthodox, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Atheists, Communists 

  • How do they define and understand themselves? 

• From one party system to multiparty system

  • From SKJ and SSRN to the democratic parties with the same membership

• Pluralism on the Balkans?

• Religious communities of the Balkans

• Role and position of NGOs in the Balkans

Module 4

Psycho-social consequence of the conflicts
in 90-ties

• Breakdown of communal identity

• Frustration and trauma

• Victims, responsibility, catharsis

• True and reconciliation

• How to speak about the past

• Tolerance for the member of different group and different opinion

Module 5

Future of the Balkans

• Common future through equal dignity and shared values

• Reconciliation and transition

• Buzz words in Bosnia

• What to do and what not to do in order to avoid the problems of everyday life

LECTURERS

Dragan Vuksic, publicist and former diplomat

Zoran Brajovic, lecturer and former diplomat

LECTURE HOURS

30

COURSE FEE

200 E

LECTURE NOTES

CD

COURSE CERTIFICATE

YES

LANGUAGE

ENGLISH OR GERMAN

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