Villa Perast, Kotor, Montenegro, FR Yugoslavia
1999 Course:
MODERNITY AND THE STATE – EAST, WEST
(CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE)
1999
22nd August – 11th September 1999


- Participants
- Programme

School organisers:

Anglo-Yugoslav Society and Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster

Co Directors from the Yugoslav part are: Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic, former Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic. Co-directors from the British part are: Prof. John Keane, Director of CSD, and Prof. Margaret Blunden, Provost of the University of Westminster. Programme Assistant is Slobodan Markovic, graduate student at the University of Cambridge and the University of Belgrade.
The School has a Council composed of 4 Co directors and aditional members: Prof. Vucina Vasovic, Dr Richard Whitman, Prof. Joseph Julian, Lecturer Ivan Vejvoda, Lecturer Ljiljana Glisovic (Secretary of the Council).

The background of the idea

The group of professors from the Faculty of Political Science (FPS), University of Belgrade led by Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic, and The Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, London (CSD), led by Prof. John Keane, have established International Summer School for Democracy, which is going to be organised every year.
This School has been established after several years of successful academic co-operation between scholars from CSD and FPS. Results of the joint research project THE SUPPRESSED CIVIL SOCIETY (during 1994 and 1995), as well as joint meetings on CIVIL SOCIETY, WAR AND PEACE (London, February 1996), and UNIVERSITY, SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY (Budva, March 1997) have proved that there are interests, willingness and capacities for joint efforts, to improve and develop co-operation in teaching and research processes in the field of political science with the special stress on problems of democracy and political and social changes. The International Summer School for Democracy is going to be one of the possible and very important forms of this co-operation.
The 1998 Course was: DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL CHANGE.
The 2000 Course will be: DEMOCRATIC RECONSTRUCTION OF SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE.

The mission of the School

(1) To promote continuing education and to enhance teaching capacity in political science;
(2) To improve junior faculty education in modern democratic theory;
(3) To provide opportunities for the exchange of experience in regard to the university education in the field of political science, modern methodologies, research and methods of teaching;
(4) To analyse conditions and possibilities for democratic social changes, especially in so called transition societies;
(5) To support teaching, research and academic co-operation between the United Kingdom and FR Yugoslavia, as well as in the region of South-Eastern Europe.
(6) To develop and promote academic exchange between USA and FR Yugoslavia.
Programme
The School's Programme will be created by co-directors and Council for each year.
Here there are some potential topics:
• Political order and democratic changes;
• Parliamentarism and presidentialism;
• Europe and the Balkans (System of security and co-operation);
• Ethnification of policy and challenges of democracy;
• Populism and a new totalitarianism;
• Media and democracy;
• Authority and opposition;
• The main social protagonist of social changes;
• Legitimisation of power and the rule of law;
• The Suppressed and Awaked Civil Society;
• New Social Movements;
• University and Democracy.

School’s participants

The main target group of participants are junior faculty: assistants, outstanding postgraduate students and younger associates, 30 participants altogether: 25 from Serbia and Montenegro, FYR Macedonia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, Romania and Albania, and 5 participants from the United Kingdom.
As course lecturers (resource persons) will be engaged professors from Westminster and other British universities and from University of Belgrade and the other universities in FR Yugoslavia), from Syracuse University, USA, as well as 2-3 guest-professors from other countries.
Place and time
Anglo-Yugoslav Summer School for Democracy is held in Perast - Kotor, Monenegro, for three weeks a year (last week in May and the first two weeks in June. (Alternative time: the last week in August and the two weeks in September; Alternative place: Palic Lake Subotica).
Initial sponsors of the School: Open Society Institute, HESP, Budapest, The British Council, Belgrade, The Fund for Open Society Belgrade.

PARTICIPANTS OF THE ANGLO-YUGOSLAV SUMMER SCHOOL FOR DEMOCRACY, PERAST - 1999

Name and Family Name

Country

Organisation/University

 

 

Vlada Andric

Republic of Srpska ,

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Member of the Executive Board of the Independent Social Democratic Party of the Republic of Srpska

Milorad Bjeletic

Serbia

Executive-Director of the

Belgrade Open School

Vladan Bozanovic

Montenegro

Demonstrator at the Faculty of Political Science

Mina Brajovic

Montenegro

MPhil student at the University of Cambridge

Biljana Camur

Republic of Srpska , Bosnia and Herzegovina

Consseco Institute for Economic Research

Aleksandra Cavoski

Serbia

MA candidate at the London School of Economics

Vladimir Dzidrov

(FYR) Macedonia

Zoran Dzuteski

(FYR) Macedonia

Councillor in the Ministry of Defence of

(FYR) Macedonia

Ferenc Hammer

Hungary

Lecturer at ELTE University

Ranko Helebrant

Croatia

Head of the Activist Department at the

Croatian Helsinki Committee

Ivana Ivkovic

Serbia

MA student at the University of Belgrade

Dragan Krznaric

Serbia

Ledina Mandia

Albania

Lecturer at the Law School , Shkodra University

Ljilja Marjanovic

Serbia

Slobodan Markovich

Serbia

Programme Co-ordinator,

Belgrade Open School

Irena Mitrovic

Serbia

Associate at the Office for

Spatial Planning and Urbanism

Sasa Misic

Serbia

MA student at the University of Belgrade

Brikena Mjeda

Albania

Lawyer in NGO for protection of women and girls from violence

Slavica Music

Serbia

Centre for Psycho-Social Support

Slobodan Naumovic

Serbia

Assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

Radomir Radojicic

Serbia

MA student at the University of Belgrade

Milan Sitarski

Serbia

Alternative Academic Educational Network

Bojan Trickovic

Serbia

MA student at the London School of Economics

Gabirela Velisek

Serbia

MA student at the London School of Economics

Aelksandar Vidojevic

Serbia

Research Fellow at the Institute of Strategic Studies of the BK University, Belgrade

Eric Weaver

USA

Joint Center for Good Governance of Syracuse University , Budapest

Programme

ANGLO-YUGOSLAV
SUMMER SCHOOL FOR DEMOCRACY
22nd August – 11th September 1999
Perast - Kotor, Montenegro, Yugoslavia

MODERNITY AND THE STATE – East/West
Programme and Course Description

Sunday, 22nd August
Participants Arrival
Dinner and Welcome Party

First week, (23rd – 29th August)
STATE AND CHALLENGES IN MANAGING INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Monday, 23rd August
10,00 – 12,00 Opening Session
Welcome addresses by Co-Directors
Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic
Prof. Margaret Blunden
Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic
Welcome Address of Mr. Svetozar Marovic,
Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro
12,30 – 13,15 Introductory Session
18,00 – 18,45 School Programme (presentation and instructions)
19,00 – 19,45 Students Debate Club (Moderator: Slobodan Markovic)

Tuesday, 24th August
09,30 – 10,15 Prof. Margaret Blunden:
Lessons of the Breakdown in the Balkans
10,30 – 11,15 Security in the 1990s.
11,30 – 12,15 Dr. Radmila Nakarada: The Yugoslav Crisis – Challenge for European Security
18,00 – 18,45 Workshop: Democratic Transition in Montenegro (Dr. Srdjan Darmanovic)
19,00 – 19,45 Students Debate Club
(Moderator: Slobodan Markovic)

Wednesday, 25th August
09,30 – 10,15 Prof. Margaret Blunden: Globalisation, the State and the Management of International Affairs
10,30 – 11,15 Prof. Miroslav Pecujlic: New Interventionism and the Destiny of Democracy - Local and Global Arena
11,30 – 12,15 Dr. Radmila Nakarada: Local, Regional and Global Preconditions for the Peaceful Balkans
18,00 – 18,45 Seminar: Active Learning – Approach to Constructivism (I) /Dr. Dusan Stojnov,
Marina Pavlovic, MA/
19,00 – 19,45 Students Debate Club
(Moderator: Slobodan Markovic)

Thursday, 26th August
09,30 – 10,15 Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic:
Classical and Modern Concept of Civil Society
10,30 – 11,15 Prof. Margaret Blunden:
Civil Society and the State:
11,30 – 12,15 Contrasting Approaches
18,00 – 18,45 Seminar: Active Learning:
Approach to Constructivism (II)
/Dr. Dusan Stojnov, Marina Pavlovic, MA/
19,00 – 19,45 Students Debate Club
(Moderator: Slobodan Markovic)

Friday, 27th August
09,30 – 10,15 Workshop: Construct of Power and
10,30 – 11,15 Power of Constructs
11,30 – 12,15 /Dr. Dusan Stojnov, Marina Pavlovic, MA/
Saturday, 28th August
Excursion to Cetinje traditional Capital of Montenegro

Sunday, 29th August

Second week, (30th August – 5th September)
CIVIL SOCIETY AND MODERN STATE

Monday, 30th August
09,30 – 10,15 Prof. Joseph Julian: The Democratic State and the Democratic Citizen
10,30 – 11,15 Prof. Joseph Julian: Democratic Civil Society and the Democratic Citizen
11,30 – 12,15 Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic:
Political Will versus the Rule of Law
18,00 – 18,45 National Democratic Institute (NDI) Seminar (Paul Rowland
19,00 – 19,45 and Stephanie Lynn): Introduction to Political Campaigne

Tuesday, 31st August
09,30 – 10,15 Dr Richard Whitman:
The Construction of a New European Order
10,30 – 11,15 of Democratic International Relations
11,30 – 12,15 Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic:
The State in Late Modernity
18,00 – 18,45 NDI Seminar (Paul Rowland, Stephanie Lynn):
19,00 – 19,45 Elements of Successful Campaign

Wednesday, 1st September
09,30 – 10,15 Dr Richard Whitman: The European Community and
10,30 – 11,15 International Security
11,30 – 12,15 Prof. Joseph Julian:
Empowering the Citizen in the State
18,00 – 18,45 NDI Seminar (Paul Rowland, Stephanie Lynn):
19,00 – 19,45 Targeting as a Campaign Tool

Thursday, 2nd September
09,30 – 10,15 Prof Vojislav Stanovcic:
Democracy and Legitimacy in Modernity
10,30 – 11,15 Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic:
Modernity and Risk Society
11,30 – 12,15 Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic:
Local Self-Government and Civil Society
18,00 – 18,45 NDI Seminar (Paul Rowland, Stephanie Lynn)
19,00 – 19,45 Putting a Campaign into Practice

Friday, 3rd September
09,30 – 10,15 Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic:
Ethnic Pluralism and Majority Rule
10,30 – 11,15 Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic: Peace and Civil Society
11,30 – 12,15 Environmental Impact of War Activities
18,00 – 18,45 NDI Seminar (Paul Rowland, Stephanie Lynn)
19,00 – 19,45 Is there life after a Campaign?

Saturday, 4th September
Excursion along Adriatic Coast of Montenegro

Sunday, 5th September

Third week, (September 6th – 11th September)
THE RULE OF LAW, ETHNICITY AND DEMOCRACY

Monday, 6th September
09,30 – 10,15 Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic:
Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
10,30 – 11,15 Prof. Vucina Vasovic: Contemporary Theories and Models of Democracy
11,30 – 12,15 Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic:
Democracy and Separation of Powers
18,00 – 18,45 Workshop: Education for Civic Competence (Prof. Joseph Julian)
19,00 – 19,45 Students Debate Club
(moderator: Slobodan Markovic)

Tuesday, 7th September
09,30 – 10,15 Prof. Vojislav Stanovcic:
Democracy and Separation of Powers
10,30 – 11,15 Prof. Vucina Vasovic: Distinctive Features
of the Post-Communist System
11,30 – 12,15 Prof. Vukasin Pavlovic:
Civil Society and Ethnic Conflicts
18,00 – 18,45 Workshop: Ethic Aspects of Ethnic Conflicts
(Rev. Dr. David Steele)
19,00 – 19,45 Students Debate Club
(Moderator: Slobodan Markovic)

Wednesday, 8th September
09,30 – 10,15 Prof. Vucina Vasovic: Parties and Party Systems in Post-Communist Countries /with special reference to Yugoslavia/
10,30 – 11,15 Dr. Mirjana Vasovic:
Value Preconditions of Democratic
11,30 – 12,15 Transformation of Yugoslav Society
18,00 – 18,45 Workshop: Religious Dimensions of
ex-Yugoslav Conflicts
(Rev. Dr. David Steele/
19,00 – 19,45 Students Debate Club
(Moderator: Slobodan Markovic)

Thursday, 9th September
09,30 – 10,15 Prof. Zagorka Golubovic: Modernity and Identity in Transitional Period, with reference to Authoritarianism in the States of ex Yugoslavia
10,30 – 11,15 Prof. Mijat Damjanovic:
Local Agenda – Democratic Recovery
11,30 – 12,15 Prof. Ilija Vujacic: Constitutionalism and Democratic Reconstruction in FR Yugoslavia
18,00 – 18,45 Evaluation of the Summer School

Friday, 10th September
09,30 – 10,15 Ivan Vejvoda:
Politics Between Modernity and Postmodernity
10,30 – 11,15 Ivan Vejvoda:
Temptations and Paradoxes of Transition
11,30 – 12,15 Closing Session

Saturday, 11th September
Departure