{"id":4830,"date":"2017-02-11T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T15:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iea.rs\/?page_id=4830"},"modified":"2017-05-05T00:40:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T22:40:44","slug":"yra-katarina-cukovic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iea.rs\/en\/yra-katarina-cukovic\/","title":{"rendered":"Katarina Cukovi\u0107"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Katarina Cukovic<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Youth reconciliation ambassadors<\/p>\n

Essay<\/p>\n

Ready to overcome past<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201eAnd by my faith, if you but do as I intend, and do what is right, then peace and good order will reign in these parts as in the rest of Europe\u201c.<\/p>\n

(Petar Petrovi\u0107 Njego\u0161 II, Prince- Bishop of Montenegero: Letter to the Pasha of Skadar, 23 July 1844)<\/p>\n

European idea lies in the desire to prevent further conflict among European nations. This original idea of European Union should be applied at the territory of Western Balkans, that is, that European integration of this region should provide stability, economic and political growth. European Union interests in Balkans are not static, but change with the circumstances. Main goal of European integration is stabilisation of the region, so we certainly see relative influence of European Union in countries of former Yugoslavia in different political and societal levels.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ) traditionally had very dynamic relations with EU. Yugoslavia was the first Socialist country formally to recognise the importance of European Economic Community. Diplomatic relations between these two markets started in early \u201c60s. SFRY had privileges for exports of agricultural products also cooperation was established in different areas, including science, technology, transport, telecommunications and others.1<\/a> All this was frozen after 1991, when EU introduced negative measures (sanctions) against Serbia and Montenegro. Sanctions against the FRY had effect on the entire region, not only on economy, but also these sanctions had huge impact on psychology of people, they started to recognise themselves as enemies, because of bad political decisions of their governments. The central idea of Yugoslavia was brotherhood and unity, but after Tito\u2019s death national revival started to overrun the region. The disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and ensuing years of conflict had created atmosphere among people that is known as \u2032ethnification of politics\u2032. Ethnification of politics is term which was first used by philosopher Clause Offe, it describes enormous political and social crises among civil society. It means that every decision in society has ethnic background. The ills of ethnic politics have strong causes and weak curses.2<\/a> During the war in former Yugoslavia ethnicity played role of division, and it was used in service of political mobilization and collective action. We see that the \u2032ethnification\u2032 of politics is outcome of powerful forces, it cannot easily be washed away and what is more difficult for this phenomenon, there are not universal institutions or agreements that would guarantee peaceful coexistence of ethnic groups. Question that is very popular these years in our region is, did we, after almost twenty years of ending the war, overcome \u2032ethnification\u2032?<\/span><\/p>\n

Answer to this question cannot be \u2032yes\u2032 or \u2032no\u2032, we see certain progress, but there are lot of things to do. There are many bilateral issues between neighbouring countries, one of them are border issues and problem of missing persons. But another issue is emotional trauma and it\u2019s related to citizens of these states. From a general point of view, every state has its own \u2032truth\u2032, which makes process of stabilisation difficult, but we have to emphasize willing of politicians to solve these problems. Although situation is better than 10 years ago, we still see that neighbouring states see themselves as enemies, hate speech is often heard during sports matches\u2026Process of reconciliation should not only be reserved for politicians, but also for civil society, ethnic reconciliation is the most important thing that should be done here. There are three phases after radical changes in society, there are very important for our process of reconciliation: 1. Constitutional changes; 2. Normalization of politics; 3. Rebuilding civil society;<\/span><\/p>\n

Rebuilding civil society is the most difficult task to do, it includes decency, gentility, reliance on own power. As a student of third year of Faculty of political sciences, I consider that is my obligation to give contribution in solving this mission. Taking part in programme \u2032Youth reconciliation ambassadors\u2032, where group of young people started to rebuild civil society, I met people who are willing to overcome that unlucky \u2032ethnification\u2032 and are ready to create Balkan who will become successful region. During programme we had argumentative discussions, we talked about our history, accession to EU and feelings that this war caused among people. People I met during this programme are people who will, one day, lead region towards peaceful politics. Also, I realised that I want to learn more about anti-conflict politics. After programme each participant had to spread things that he\/she learned during this programme. I had chosen to give lecture about reconciliation in high school, because I considered that is very important that children learn both sides of a story. I was very surprised in positive way, because children are ready to cooperate and they don\u2019t think about neighbouring states as enemies, process of rebuilding civil society is getting much better every year.<\/span><\/p>\n

As we have seen above, despite the fact that war in Western Balkan ended almost twenty years ago, there are still tensions between countries in the region. Region is still undeveloped, it has the highest unemployment rate in Europe and the primary reason that region did not progressed is lack of cooperation between states. Progress only can be seen at the level of political elites, because of that is very important that we have more programmes such as \u2032youth reconciliation ambassadors\u2032, good relations should be achieved at the level of citizens. Citizens need to feel closer to each other, especially young generations who grew up during war period. I am very grateful that I took part in this programme, because I can know proudly say that I am <\/span>ambassador of reconciliation<\/span> and one day because of my colleagues and me this region will prosper.<\/span><\/p>\n

Education, both formal and informal, is key to overcome darkness of ethno-nationalism. War that happened in former Yugoslavia is product of people who were not ready to cooperate and their individual interests were priority above national. We have to learn that ethnic should never be dominate in politics, we have to always remember what misfortune that kind of politics brought to this region. Forgive, but not forget, that is the path that will lead this region to better future.<\/span><\/p>\n

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1<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> Du\u0161ko Lopadi\u0107, Jasminka Kronja \u201eRegional Initiatives and Multilateral cooperation in the Balkans\u201c, Bg., 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2<\/a>\u0002<\/sup> Claus Offe \u201eVarieties of transition: The Esat European and East German Expirience\u201c, 1997<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MALI KORACI, VELIKE PROMENE<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mali<\/div>\n

Balkan je turbulentno podru\u010dje Evrope, \u010desto interpretirano negativnim kontekstom kao \u201enarodi koji prave probleme\u201c. Me\u0111utim danas, kada je pro\u0161lo skoro dvadeset godina od sukoba na prostorima biv\u0161e Jugoslavije, mo\u017ee se re\u0107i da su zemlje u regionu dostigle stepen politi\u010dke zrelosti i svesne su da je proces pomirenja na Balkanu jedan od najbitnijih politi\u010dkih koncepata.<\/p>\n

Jedan od klju\u010dnih izazova, osim procesa evropskih integracija, jeste suo\u010davanje sa pro\u0161lo\u0161\u0107u. Proces pomirenja podrazumeva da gra\u0111ani u regionu, a ne samo \u010dlanovi politi\u010dkih elita, shvate koliko je ovaj proces bitan. Obrazovanje tu ima klju\u010dnu ulogu. Jedna od organizacija koja je shvatila koliko je bitno govoriti o ovom procesu mladima jeste \u201eOmladinski<\/strong> odbor<\/strong> za<\/strong> obrazovanje<\/strong>\u201c, a program koji organizuje ova organizacija naziva se \u201eOmladinski ambasadori pomirenja<\/strong>\u201c, koji ima za cilj da mladima iz Srbije, Bosne i Hercegovine, Makedonije i Kosova, kroz edukativni program poka\u017ee kako se treba suo\u010diti sa problemima iz pro\u0161losti, kako ih treba prevazi\u0107i i kako pospe\u0161iti saradnju me\u0111u ovim teritorijama. Program, koji je odr\u017ean u decembru 2014. godine, obuhvatao je tri osnovne teme: EU<\/strong>, istorija<\/strong>, proces<\/strong> pomirenja<\/strong> u<\/strong> regionu<\/strong>. Mladi ambasadori su imali prilike da prisustvuju predavanjima najve\u0107ih stru\u010dnjaka iz ove oblasti i da kroz argumentovane rasprave diskutuju o regionalnim problemima.<\/p>\n

Uz sve te\u0161ko\u0107e sa kojima se suo\u010davaju zemlje regiona, proces pridru\u017eivanja Evropskoj Uniji i politika pomirenja predstavljaju klju\u010dne politi\u010dke koncepte, od kojih nijedna zemlja, bez obzira na razli\u010dite stepene u procesu pribli\u017eavanja Evropskoj Uniji, ne\u0107e odstupiti. Me\u0111utim da bi Balkan postao deo Evrope, prvo mora poraditi na me\u0111usobnom dijalogu i ekonomskoj saradnji. Podizanje nivoa politi\u010dke kulture, kolektivno osve\u0161\u0107ivanje i napu\u0161tanje politike koja je zasnovana na predrasudama \u201emi vs. oni<\/em>\u201c, podrazumeva dug proces koji se ne mo\u017ee dogoditi odmah, ali mora da postoji volja naroda da se problemi koji su povezani sa doga\u0111ajima iz pro\u0161losti prevazi\u0111u. Samo na taj na\u010din Balkan \u0107e uspeti da se pomiri ne samo sa samim sobom, nego i sa ostatkom sveta.<\/p>\n

Prostoru Balkana je potreban duh mladih ljudi koji su spremni da zajedno gledaju u budu\u0107nost, a da doga\u0111aje iz pro\u0161losti ne zaborave, ali oproste jedni drugima, kako bi zajedno napredovali, ne samo na nivou dr\u017eava, ve\u0107 kao \u010ditav regoion. Mladi ambasadori pomirenja su spremni da ove izazove prihvate i svesni su \u010dinjenice da tolerancija, saradnja i dijalog nisu samo apstraktne ideje, ve\u0107 konkretna sredstva koja \u0107e u\u010diniti da svest o miru gra\u0111ani Balkana shvate kao uslov bez koga nijedna dr\u017eava ne mo\u017ee napredovati.<\/p>\n

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