The idea for the summer school on ethnic relations, which would gather international graduate students who are working in that area, was born in the project by Dr Dušan Janjić, Forum for Ethnic Relations, Prof. Carl-Ulrik Schierup, Umea University, Prof. [...]
This meeting gathered about 30 experts of different specialties, well known sociologists, political scientists, constitutional lawyers, etc., from Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Russian Federation. Most of Yugoslav participants came from the Forum for Ethnic Relations, Institute for Social Sciences [...]
Ethno-nationalist movements and opposition to democratization and modernization led to the breakup of the former Yugoslav federation and war. These events revealed numerous problems, including the absence of a democratic political culture and the lack of instruments for managing conflicts. [...]
