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Analytical comments
2000:
Children's perception of causes and consequences of war
Professor Ph.D. Zarko Trebjesanin
Saturday, June 10, 2000
We classified these indeed fascinating children's answers to our questions, determined their frequency and examined whether there were variances in frequency of their replies among the children of different age, place of residence and gender. I will present here only some of the results we obtained.
Time of Fear
Slobodan Petkovic, PhD
Monday, May 29, 2000
The situation in Serbia today is tragic for the majority of people, preoccupied with the day-to-day struggle for subsistence and living in fear of war. Such circumstances, however, are ideal for the manipulation of the masses, which is necessary if the present regime is to keep, or increase, its power.
Russia Today
Jelica Kurjak, PhD
Thursday, May 25, 2000
Is the concept of European security possible to imagine without Russia? Or the expansion of NATO to the east without Russian corrective influence? And is it possible to undo the Balkan knot without Russia's involvement? What is it that is happening in Russia today which is so markedly different from some earlier epochs and so characteristic of Russia's reformatory shift towards the European system of values?
Recent Positive Impulses in the Balkans
Nina Jesic
Friday, May 12, 2000
The final conclusion is that the Balkans has to find its own way to prosperity - which will only be possible when its nations realize that it is not what country they live in that matters, but the quality of their life, tolerance and cooperation.
Possibilities for Democratisation of Serbia
Marija Martinic
Sunday, May 7, 2000
In this century, when the fate of the Christian world is still unresolved, some people are anxious to attack democracy as an enemy force while it is still growing; others already worship democracy as a new deity emerging from nothingness; however, both the former and the latter are imperfectly acquainted with the object of their hatred or their earnest wishes; they fight among themselves in the dark and throw punches at random.
Impossibility of a Greater Rebellion in Belgrade
Dusan Miskovic
Thursday, April 13, 2000
It is the last minute for the opposition to get serious and concentrate all its attention to the forthcoming elections, whatever they may look like, because they are the only means of any importance that can be used to make some step forward, and, judging by everything else, they are the only thing (if opposition goes united) which Milosevic is, at this point, afraid of.
Serbia as a quasi-legitimate rule
Sonja Mitrovic
Sunday, April 9, 2000
His rise to power was marked (and largely caused) by 'the people's rebellion'. His decisions were not presented as the result of the ruler's preplanned strategies, but 'people's wishes'.
Years of Antidepressants
Isidor Igic
Wednesday, March 30, 2000
There were approximately 400,000 regular users (addicts) of antidepressant and tranquilliser drugs in Belgrade in the period 1990-96. During the '96/97 civil protests this figure was reduced to 200,000 only to skyrocket to 600,000 in 1998. It is estimated that the number of occasional users amounts to more than 1,500,000.
Attack on Local Self-government
Misa Djurkovic (Institute for European Studies)
Wednesday, March 22, 2000
However, most of the innovations are designed to meet the demands of the present political situation and aimed at securing the power of the regime. First of all, the law introduces one-round single-member plurality voting system (first-past-the-post), according to which the candidate with the highest number of votes wins the seat in an assembly.
Public Information Act and Misconceptions
Cedomir Antic
Tuesday, March 12, 2000
It seems that the regime will keep on playing games with the independent media and those people, who expect that the regime will bleed dry the financial resources of the independent media and thus close them down, are mistaken.
It's better in Montenegro, but...
Tamara Vukasovic
Tuesday, February 29, 2000
If the current regime in Montenegro does not want to appear like the one we had over the course of the past decade with only some cosmetic changes, it is necessary to make some effort and show more skill in order to gain confidence of the citizens who have already proved that they indeed want to"live better".
Psychological Roots of Resistance to Democracy (2/2)
Ph.D. Zarko Trebjesanin
Monday, February 21, 2000
Our experience teaches us that totalitarian movements (National Socialism, Fascism, Communism) establish themselves in power precisely at the moment when the society is burdened with utter poverty and soaring unemployment rate. In times of grave economic crises the people are being offered salvation in the form of a 'just government' which would 'rule with an iron fist', establish iron discipline, introduce 'order' and provide jobs as well as evenly distribute general poverty.
Psychological Roots of Resistance to Democracy (1/2)
Ph.D. Zarko Trebjesanin
Thursday, February 17, 2000
What are those irrational motives which prevent a man from stepping out of an authoritarian system and daringly embrace another new and democratic social and political system?
New year's wish
Professor Slobodan Petkovic
Friday, February 11, 2000
Let us make a wish that the year 2000 bring democratic transformation of Serbia. The collapse of the Milosevic's regime will surely be one of the most important events in the Serbian history on a par with the first Serbian uprising against the Turkish rule or the breakthrough of the Salonika front in 1918.
View on Criminal Legal Code Regarding Abuse of Narcotics in FRY
Dusan Djordjevic, student (Law School, Belgrade University)
Wednesday, February 2, 2000
Recently, at the opening of a radio station which would make the students' life better, professor Mira Markovic mentioned and brought to our attention the suspicious relation between some professors of the Belgrade University and deutschemarks, students and, I presume, Turkish heroin. This made me seriously reconsider the issue of drugs and drug addiction in our society and our everyday lives since if the United Left (JUL) cared about it, no good could come out of it.
Human needs, social crisis and democracy
Ph.D. Sulejman Hrnjica, Professor of psychology
Saturday, January 29, 2000.
For the time being, it is not quite clear whether the need for democracy is an authentic human need. However, if it is so indeed, it is highly unlikely that it falls into the group of biologically founded needs.
Transitional goverment: dangerous game or deliberate deception?
Misa Djurkovic (Institute for European Studies)
Sunday, January 23, 2000.
Rejecting the elections at the cost of utter misery
Professor Goran Milicevic
Tuesday, January 18, 2000.
Little China in Europe
Professor Slobodan Petkovic
Thursday, January 06, 2000.
Year 2000 -- different calendars
Dusan Miskovic
Monday, January 03, 2000.
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