Reports

CEDET - Annual report 2000
- first year -

In the first year CEDET performed several activities:

- official registration of the Association (NGO) at the court in Belgrade
- have set up an office in Belgrade
- held meetings in Budva and Budapest
- worked on putting up a three year plan of activities
- worked on plan of the publishing activity and gathering material for publishing
- worked on plan of courses, seminars and workshops

Following report from the meetings as well as all the other activities of CEDET was adopted on an annual meeting held in Belgrade in March 2001.

I MEETING REPORT - October 19th to 22nd, 2000 - Budva
The meeting in Budva was necessary for recruiting Montenegrin participants. It was of a great importance to meet colleagues from Montenegro and in personal contacts agree strategy for future activities. We were discussing possibilities of cooperation, joint activities and further steps to be taken in CEDET.
There was agreed upon an idea to meet in Budapest with the colleagues from Croatia and the other colleagues from Serbia and discuss further activities and all the issues of common interest.
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II MEETING REPORT - November 16th to 19th, 2000 - Budapest
The meeting in Budapest was held from 16 to 19th of November 2000. Primarily, it was planned to be organized, first, in Milocer, Montenegro, than in Dubrovnik, Croatia, but because of unexpected announcement of elections in FRY as well as because of impossibility to predict the post-electoral situation in Serbia and FRY, it was decided by the main coordinator together with coordinators from Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia that this meeting should be held in Budapest.
There were 18 participants plus secretary. A few colleagues, like Gvozden Flego, Vukasin Pavlovic, Alpar Losonc, Rade Kalanj and Dragan Vukcevic - who had had reserved rooms and approved their coming resigned at the last moment (because of objective reasons). A few more project-participants informed in advance about impossibility to come (for the sake of other obligations).
Friday morning session was devoted to mini-conference concerned with perspectives of democratization in Croatia and FRY. The main coordinator together with regional coordinators welcome the participants and opened the meeting. The main coordinator Dragica Vujadinovic expressed gratitude in the name of all project participants and herself to Freedom House (FH) and to Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK) for financial support that enabled that meeting. Lesley Carlson - the representative of Freedom House-Budapest, welcome the meeting in the name of FH. Dragica Vujadinovic transferred greetings of Gerhard Duda, the representative of HRK.
It was a good idea to start communication among participants with an exchange of experiences and opinions about specific happenings and situation in Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. Individual talks were followed with intensive discussions. The bad side is that dictaphone was not planned to be bought, otherwise we could have published in some of social sciences magazine the content of that very interesting and fruitful mini-conference. But still, as mentioned above, it was very useful and reasonable to start working with that mini-conference. In other words, it represented a good introduction into Project proposal discussions, which followed afterwards.
The afternoon meeting on Friday was devoted to a general discussion about the Project proposal.
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Participants took part very causciously in the discussion. The main conclusions were: 1. That the project proposal has been done seriously and that it has had a high quality; 2. That the project proposal should be improved (in the sense of consistency) by adding the section concerned with social-economic transformation (as the second section) 3. That the section concerned with human rights should be reconsidered: a) that human rights should become the focus for each project's section (i.e. for institutional framework, for social context and for political culture section) instead of being a separate section, and b) that there will be planned the resuming (fourth) section in which there will be presented summarizing conclusions from the point of human rights view; 4. That the title of the project should be changed into the following one: INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK, SOCIOECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION, AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN FRY (SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO) AND CROATIA.
Saturday morning session was devoted to an improvement of different themes content, followed on by detailed discussions about budget proposal, about the need for additional participants in the project, about methods of coordination of the common work, about the future meetings, about publishing the book as the final result of the work. Concerning a publishing of the book there was made an agreement that it will be done first in regional languages put together and afterwards in English (and German).
Middle day sessions were devoted to specific section agreements. There was also the sub-session of the participants interested in and engaged for the realization of new empirical surveys as well as for secondary analyses of existent surveys in Croatia and FRY.
The final late afternoon session on Saturday was devoted to reconsideration of all relevant conclusions and to final agreements concerned with different aspects of the future work. There was also made an agreement that the zero point for starting realizing the project will be that one when the first year budget will be attained (without funds for empirical surveys, which have also be planned for the first year). Six months after that zero point there will be held the first meeting in Dubrovnik, Croatia, at which the themes from the first section - concerned with an INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK- will be considered. Namely, the participants connected with that section would be expected to present their theoretical and empirical results. They will also be expected to make comparative analyses before and during that meeting, concerned with the same themes, which had been worked on, in different regions. The other participants will take part in critical reconsideration of the given regional and comparative presentations, on the basis of which the final papers will be made later on. The same procedure will be applied six months later on the meeting planned to be held in Milocer (Budva), Montenegro, which will be devoted to the section: SOCIOECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION, as well as on the after-new-six-months-later-meeting devoted to POLITICAL CULTURE (planned to be held in Belgrade), and after the next six months meeting devoted to summarizing discussions focused around human rights problem (planned to be held in Zagreb). There is also planned the fifth meeting, envisioned as the public international Conference at which the final results will be offered for critical reconsideration to the professional world public.
The common impression of the participants of the Budapest meeting was very positive about the project and its theoretical as well as policy making relevance (from the point of Stability Pact). An agreement also existed about that the meeting in Budapest was extremely useful and necessary for the future realization of the project.
There was obvious an existence of a positive energy formed around the project and readiness of the participants for hard working in Budapest and also in the future. In addition, the atmosphere during the meeting was extremely warm and friendly.
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III MEETING REPORT - 28th to 29th of February, 2001
The group of the team members from Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro (Prof. Zarko Puhovski and Prof. Lino Veljak from Zagreb, Prof. Vladimir Goati, Prof. Aleksandar Molnar, Prof. Dragica Vujadinovic, Dr Vladimir Djeric from Belgrade, and Prof. Nebojsa Vucinic from Podgorica), who have been participants of the Project INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK, SOCIO-POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION, AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN FRY (SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO) AND CROATIA met in Belgrade, on the 28th and 29th of February 2001.
During two days of meetings and working sessions participants discussed the future plans of CEDET, adopted annual report of activities also Aleksandar Molnar and Vladimir Djeric - who have been supposed to take the great role in the human rights consideration could not come to Budapest. Therefore it had been decided to make at Belgrade meeting the final articulation of the whole project from the point of view of human rights, and this aim was successfully realized. The Project participants consensually concluded about the final version of the Project proposal and its focusing on human rights point of view. This group also reconsidered the situation with fund raising and agreed about not to start with the Project realization before getting the budget amount planned for the first year work.

IV MEETING REPORT - 23 TO 25th September 2001
Dragica Vujadinovic - the main Project co-ordinator, together with regional co-ordinators Vladimir Goati, Lino Veljak and Veselin Pavicevic, agreed upon all the detailes concerned with the realization of the first part of the project, which has been enabled according to the financial support of Freedom House.

V MEETING REPORT - 11th October, 2001
The Project co-ordinators agreed upon the construction of website and realisation of virtual workshops and discussion groups. Web address is www.cedet.org.yu. CEDET got financial support from Democracy Comission Small Grant for that purpose.

FINAL REPORT
YEAR 2001/2002

PROJECT: INSTITUTIONAL FRAMWORK, SOCIO – ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN THE FRY (SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO) AND CROATIA

I PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

II PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROJECT

III CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS IN BUDVA

IV PUBLICATIONS

I PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

The realisation of the project started in July 2001 with meetings of the co-ordinators and authors about the future organisation of work and activities. The first step was gathering data from empirical researches, creating data base and mathods of circulation of the material to the authors. Till the end of February 2002 we were gathering material, meeting in order to discuss the topics and prepare summaries, co-ordinate activities and prepare ground for workshop and publishing of the book.

With USIS grant we were able to establish web site on which we put our project and all the material we used for the preparations of meetings and conferences as well as publishing the articles. The main aim of this project was to present activities of CEDET to the academic and general public and to influence and stimulate young people, students and postgraduate students to take active role in discussions.

We also started virtual workshop on the Internet and were holding virtual meetings on the net. It was great help for our small organization in avoiding all the big costs of traveling between Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia. It made possible constant communication between the project co-ordinators and participants in the project from these countries.

Dragica Vujadinovic – Milinkovic was the main lecturer and moderator of the virtual workshops with students that became especially intensive in the months before the meeting in Budva, Montenegro, held from May 1^st to May 5^th 2002. All the drafts of the articles and papers were presented and exchanged on Internet before the conference which made the work on the spot, during meeting in Budva, much more efficient and organized.

II PROJECT PARTICIPANTS

PARTICIPANTS FROM SERBIA

1. Vladimir Goati, Visiting professor at the University of Bordeau, Ljubljana and Podgorica (v.goati@EUnet.yu), Tel: +381 11 4884 313

2. Dragica Vujadinović, Professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade,  Director of CEDET  (dragicav@nomos.ius.bg.ac.yu-, cedet@cedet.org.yu , dragica@cedet.org.yu, dragicav@bitsyu.net) CEDET: Hilandarska 24, 11000 Beograd, Tel/Fax: +381 11 3247 547, Mob: +381 63 82 72 607

3. Radmila Vasić, Professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade  (radav@infosky.net) Tel: +381 11 642 957

4. Alpar Lošonc, Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad  (alpar@uns.ns.ac.yu) Tel: +381 21 84 23 18

5. Aleksandar Molnar, Professor and the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, department of Sociology, University of Belgrade (amolnar@f.bg.ac.yu) Ljube Stojanovica 26, 11000 Beograd, Tel: +381 11 764 774

6. Slobodan Vučetić, The Judge of the Constitutional Court of Serbia Tel: + 381 11 421 450, Mob: +381 63 82 93 119

7. Nenad Dimitrijević, The Dean and Professor of the Political Science Department, CEU, Budapest  (Dimitrij@CEU.HU) 

8. Slobodan Antonić, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, University of Belgrade  (santonic@Eunet.yu)

9. Silvano Bolčić, Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, University of Belgrade, (bolcic@beotel.yu )     

10. Mladen Lazic, Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, mlazic@f.bg.ac.yu

11. Milan Podunavac, Professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Podunav@instifdt.bg.ac.yu 

12. Dragan Pantic, Senior Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, (00 381 11) 459 857

13. Bozidar Jakšić, Senior Fellow, Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade, Jaksic@instifdt.bg.ac.yu

14. Vesna Rakić-Vodinelić, Professor of the Faculty for Business Law, Belgrade, (00 381 11) 304 64  rakicv@hotmail.com

15. Mirko Đorđević, Professor emeritus, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade

16. Boro Kuzmanović, Professor of Social Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade

17. Vukašin Pavlović,  Professor  of the Faculty of Political Sciences,belgrade University, 0038 164 113 4308, 00381 11 183 408  vpavlovi@EUnet.yu    

18. Mihail Arandarenko, Professor of the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, marandarenko@EUnet.yu

19. Vojin Dimitrijević, Professor of the Faculty of Law, retired, Director of Yugoslav Center for Human Rights, vojin.bgc@sezampro.yu  

20. Vučina Vasović, Proffessor of the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, +063381 11 444 0265, Mob: +381 63 842 8075

Junior Faculty Stuff, students

1. Vlado Pavićević, Postgraduate student at the Centre for the European Integration Studies, University of Bonn, (vlado@bos.org.yu) Mob: +49 179 77 98 326

2. Duška Dobrosavljev, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, postgraduate student of philosophy (srdob@Eunet.yu) Lukijana Mušickog 17, 21 000 Novi Sad, Tel: +381 21 624 259, Mob: +381 64 150 11 61

3. Dejan Vuk Stanković, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Postgraduate student and an Assistant at the Faculty of Education, Belgrade  (dejanvuk@Eunet.yu) Aleksinačkih rudara 12, 11000 Bgd, Tel: +381 11 676 070, Mob: +381 64 218 14 33

4. Marijana Santrač, MA,  CEU Budapest ( santracm@ceu.hu)

5. Aleksandra Nedeljković, Postgraduate student at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade ( sandra-n@Eunet.yu,   alexandranedeljkovic@yahoo.com) Tel: +381 11 775 939, Mob: + 381 64 162 88 90

6. Slaviša Tasić, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade, postgraduate student of Economics (tslavisa@hotmail.com) Husinskih rudara 47/20, 11 000 Beograd,  Tel: +381 11 773 912, Mob: + 381 64 190 18 63

7. Bojan Vračević, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, undergraduated student (vbojan@yubc.net) Mob: + 381 63 84 904 59

8. Adriana Zaharijevic, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Belgrade   Kirovljeva 5, 11000 Bgd, Tel: + 381 11 541 670, Mob: + 381 64 18 19 720  elflinchen@hotmail.com

9. Tanasije Marinković, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, junior Assistant at the Faculty of Law, postgraduate student (tanasije@yubc.net) Mob: +381 63 308 869, Tel: +381 11 633 848

10.  Ivan Nikolić, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, junior Assistant at the Faculty of   Law, postgraduate student (inikolas@cesid.org.yu) Mob: +381 63 249 117

11. Iva Milinković, student, secretary of the project (imilinkovich@yahoo.com)

PARTICIPANTS FROM CROATIA

Professors

1. Smiljana Leinert Novosel, Professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb  (pavao.novosel@zg.tel.hr) Tel: +385 1 46 33 181

2. Ivan Šiber, Professor and the Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb (i_siber@yahoo.com) Lepušićeva 6, Tel: +385 1 2853 369

3. Alan Uzelac, An Associate-Professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (alan.uzelac@pfzgb.tel.hr)

4. Alija Hodžić, Scientific researcher, Institute of Social Sciences (alija@idi.hr) Tel: +385 1 3700 384

5. Goran Čular, Asisstant of the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb (goran.cular@fpzg.hr) Tel: +385 1 3643460, Mob: +385 91 566 30 25

6. Lino Veljak, Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (veljak@yahoo.com) Mob: +385 91 5663 025

7. Arsen Bačić, Professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Split  (arsen.bacic@st.tel.hr)

8. Srđan Vrcan, Professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Split, retired (svrcan@zamir.net)

9. Žarko Puhovski, Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (zpuhov@zamir.net )

10. Gvozden Flego, Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (gvozden.flego@zg.tel.hr)

11. Rade Kalanj, Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (svetlana.kalanj-bognar@zg.tel.hr )

12. Nenad Miščević, Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, Maribor and CEU, Budapest, vismiscevic@ceu.hu

13. Srđan Dvornik,  HBS representative for Croatia, ++ 385-91-4684955, fax +++458 43 32, mobile +385 91 2098074

14. Zoran Malenica, Senior Lecturer of the Faculty of Law, University of Split, mobile ++385 91 180 89 49 (malenica@law.pravst.hr)

15. Miomir Matulović, Professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Hahlić 6,       51 000 Rijeka, tel ++ 385 51422571  (momo@ pfri.hr)               

16. Branimir Krištofić, MA, Scientific assistant, Institute for Social Research, University of Zagreb, Director of Center for Transition and Civil Society Research, fungi@zamir.net

17. Vojmir Franičević, Professor of the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb, franicevic@efzg.hr

18. Ivan Prpić, Professor of the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb ivan.prpic@zg.tel.hr

Junior Faculty, students

1. Jasmina Ibišević, Undergraduate student of the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka (jasmina.ibisevic@inet.hr)Ćićarijska 41, 51 000 Rijeka, Tel: +385 51269936, mobile +385(0)91 5513161

2. Hrvoje Jurić, Postgraduate student, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy , junior assistant of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (hjuric@yahoo.com) Filozofski fakultet, I. Lučića 3, 10 000 Zagreb Tel: +385  1 3638 661 Mob: +385 91 5789 989

3. Igor Kolman, Student of journalism, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb (igor.kolman@zg.tel.hr) Barutanski breg 50, 10 000 Zagreb Tel: +385 1 242 14 62 Mob: +385 91 242 14 62

4. Mura Palašek, Researcher in the Agency `PULS`, postgraduate student of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy,University of Zagreb(mura.palasek@puls.hr) Duknovićeva 4, 10 000 Zagreb Mob: +385 91 512 79 64

5. Dražen Puljić, Undergraduate student at the last year of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb (drazen.puljic@inet.hr) Mob: +385 98 523 649

6. Siniša Paić, Undergraduate student at the last year of Sociology, student of the first year of journalism, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb (sipaic@inet.hr) Hribarov prilaz 6, 10 010 Zagreb, Tel: +385 1 66 02 656

7. Tamara Puhovski, Undergraduate student of the last year of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of zagreb, and student of the first year of the politicology, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb (tpuhi@hotmail.com , tpuhi@yahoo.com) Gajdekova 3, 10 000 Zagreb, Mob: +385 91 5874 678

8. Ema Vinter, Undergraduate student of the last year of the faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (ema.vinter@mail.inet.hr) Crvenog križa 6, 10 000 Zagreb, Tel: +385 1 46 55 954 Mob: + 385 91 53 96 770

9. Dejan Dedić, Postgraduate student of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb,researcher in the Agency `PULS`(dejan.dedic@puls.hr)

10. Goran Kardaš, Postgraduate student of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, junior assistant of the daculty of Philosophy, Department for Indiology (gkardas@yahoo.com)

PARTICIPANTS FROM MONTENEGRO

Professors

1. Veselin Pavićević, An Associate-Professor of the Faculty of Law, and the Faculty of Economics, University of Podgorica (vesop@cg.ac.yu) Mob: +381 69 015 502

2. Srđan Darmanović, Asisstant of the Faculty of Law, University of Podgorica (cedem@cg.yu) Mob: +381 69 016 319

3. Nebojša Vučinić, Professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Podgorica (malishav@cg.yu, hrc@cg.ac.yu) Mob: +381 69 414 609

4. Milan Popović, Professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Podgorica (milanpop@cg.yu)

5. Veselin Vukotić, Professor of the Faculty of Economics, University of Podgorica vukotic@cg.yu

6. Šerbo Rastoder, Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy in Nikšić, department for History (serbor@cg.yu )

7. Dragan Vukčević, Professor and Dean of the faculty of Law, Podgorica, dekanpf@cg.ac.yu

8. Miloš Bešić, Professor of the faculty of Philosophy, University of Nikšić

Junior Faculty, students

1. Zlatko Vujović, Director CEMI, student of the faculty of Law, University of Podgorica    (zlatko77@yahoo.com) Ivana Vujoševića 19, 81 000 Podgorica, Mob: + 381 67 236 949

2. Predrag Stamatović, postgraduate student of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Podgorica( stamatovic@cg.yu) Cara Lazara 2, 81 000 Podgorica, Mob: + 381 67 322 001

3. Mina Brajović, MA in Law at Cambridge University( minamn@cg.yu) Pariske komune 7/29/7, 81 000 Podgorica, Mob: +381 69 57 48 36

4. Vlado Savković, junior Asisstant at the Faculty of Law, University of Podgorica, postgraduate student (vsavkovic@yahoo.com) Mob: +381 69 066 858

5. Maja Baćović, MA in Economics, Asisstant at the Faculty of Economics, department for mathematics and Statistics () Phone/fax: +381 81 241 504, 243 554

6. Ivana Jelić, junior Asisstant  of the Faculty of Law, University of Podgorica, postgraduate student, coordinator in the Center for Human Rights hrc@cg.ac.yu Tel: +381 81 225 984 

7. Nenad Koprivica, program coordinator of CEDEM (nenad.cedem@cg.yu , nenad_cg@yahoo.com  )

8. Damir Davidović, Postgraduate student at the Centre for the European Integration Studies, University of Bonn (davidovicd@hotmail.com) +49 179 77 91 741

III CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS

Title: INSTITUTIONAL FRAMWORK
Held in: Hotel “Avala”, Budva
Date:  May 1 to May 5, 2002

PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE
 

Wednesday, 1^st of May

17 – 19 Table coordinators: D.Vujadinović, V. Goati, Lino Veljak, Veselin Pavićević

Introductory work –Welcoming words, introducing each self, general informations, agreements concerned with methods of work, with final versions of articles, with activities of younger participants (junior faculty and students).

 

Thursday, 2^nd of May

 9.30-11 – CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION

Table coordinators: V. Goati, I. Šiber

Introductory text presentations: Arsen Bačić (his text presented by Alan Uzelac), Nenad Dimitrijević (his text presented by Vladimir Goati), Milan Popović, Slobodan Vučetić

1.  Arsen Bacic, Constitutional order in the Republic of Croatia (1990-2002)
2.  Nenad Dimitrijevic, Constitutional Democracy for Yugoslavia: Between Reform and Revolution
3. Milan Popovic, Pre -Constitutional Status in Montenegro (Serbia) after an Agreement from 14^th of March, 2002.
4.  Slobodan Vucetic, Serbia and Montenegro: From Federation to Confederation

11.30-13.30 – POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND POLITICAL ELITES

Table coordinators: Veselin Pavicevic, L.Veljak

Introductory text presentations: Srdjan Darmanović, Smiljana Lajtner, Alija Hodžić, Slobodan Antonić (his text presented by Aleksandar Molnar)

1.      Srdjan Darmanovic, Political System and Elites in Montenegro

2.      Smiljana Leinert Novosel, Political Order in Croatia (1990 – 2002)

3.      Alija Hodzic, Forming of Governing Elites in Croatia

4.      Slobodan Antonic, Political System and Elites in Serbia

 

15.30 –17 – PARTY SYSTEMS

Table coordinators: S. Darmanović, A. Molnar

Introductory text presentations: Goran Čular, Vladimir Goati

1.      Goran Cular, Party system in Croatia

2.      Vladimir Goati, Party System in Serbia and Montenegro

 

17.30 - 19  ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

Table coordinators: A.Hodžić, S. Leinert

Introductory text presentations: Veselin Pavićević, Srdjan Vrcan (his text was presented by Lino Veljak),Vladimir Goati

1.    Veselin Pavicevic, Electoral System in Montenegro

2.   Srdjan Vrcan, Elections in Croatia: A Symthomatic case or an Anomaly?

3.    Vladimir Goati, Electoral System in Serbia

 

FRIDAY, 3^rd of May

9.30 - 11 JUDICIAL SYSTEMS

Table coordinators: S.Vučetić, Alpar Losonc

Introductory text presentations: Alan Uzelac, Radmila Vasić

1.      Alan Uzelac, Reform of Judiciary in Croatia and its Limits

2.      Radmila Vasic, Reforms of Judiciary in Serbia and Montenegro

 

11.30 - 13  TERITHORIAL ORGANIZATION AND REGIONALISM

Table coordinators: N.Vučinić, Alan Uzelac

Introductory text presentations: Alpar Lošonc, Lino Veljak

1.      Alpar Losonc, Problematique of regionalism in Serbia: The Case of Vojvodina

2.      Lino veljak, Regionalism and Theritorial Organizatin: The Case of Croatia

 

15.30 - 17 STABILITY PACT

Table coordinators: Alpar Lošonc, Lino Veljak

Introductory text presentation: Nebojša Vučinić

Nebojsa Vucinic, Stability Pact for South-East Europe – Expectations and Results

17.15 - 19.15 GENERAL DISCUSSION

Table coordinators: D.Vujadinović, V. Goati, L. Veljak

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, 4^th and 5^th of May

 

SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS FOR STUDENTS

   

Seminar No 1:An Importance of the Constitution for establishing political community

            Students are supposed to discuss with professors important constitutional questions. Professors who took part in this seminar were Alan uzelac, Slobodan Vucetic, Aleksandar Molnar, Radmila Vasic. Professors and students talked on the basis of students questions, and they together generated mutual relation of equal participants. Constitutionalism was treated as the basis of the rule of law establishment, of the basic political consensus and as the basis of protecting the state and society from any kind of  majoritarian tiranny.

           

Seminar No 2: Electoral systems, political parties, and political culture

            Students are supposed to discuss with professors relevant topics concerned with inner party political culture, intra-parties political culture, malformations in elections and concequences of them for the political culture. Professors Ivan Siber, Smiljana Lienert, Dragica Vujadinovic, Goran Cular, Lino Veljak and alpar Losonc had a very interesting discussion with students about clientelistic type of parties in all three regions, then about criteria for value differentiation between left wing and right wing parties in the contemporary world and in the region. There was also discussed an issue of legitimacy, where the student Igor Kolman from Zagreb put into question an interpretation of legitimacy based only on majority electoral support. So far there was put into question and discussed the statement whether the regimes either of Milosevic in Serbia or of Tudjman in Croatia could have been at all named as legitimate.

 

Workshop No1: Impartiality and non arbitrariness: features of an independent judiciary

N.B. Methodological rule established for all workshops was that students were supposed to discuss alone the proposed topics, professors were supposed to be primarily listeners and they could help in students` trying to respond to some hard questions.

Professors respected this procedure and took part in discussions on judiciary only when some of the students asked them something directly and specifically. The main result of this discussion was that there are too many similarities in all of these countries concerning obstacles for establishing an independent judiciary and the common conclusion was that the quality of judiciary represents the main croteria for judgeing the merit of the rule of law establishment in these transitional countries. Judiciary has been the weakest spot in transitional processes concerned with political institutionas and at the same time has been the strongest merit of a level and quality of transitional processes.

 

Workshop No 2: Stability Pact – Presuppositions and visions of modernity and political stability in South-East Europe

            The same method of work – as above mentioned - was planned and fully respected in the realization of this workshop. Discussion was extremly interesting and intensive. Common conclusions were that an international community had to take an active part in the processes of reconciliation and reintegration of the Balcans region into Europe. But there were also strong critical remarks that an international community often acted in a paternalistic way without trying to understand processes from inside and with putting more accent on imposing solutions from above and outside instead of giving financial and professional support for stabilization of these countries and the whole region in the field of economics and social policy. The point was that democratization presupposes economic and social security for citizens and that without improving economic and social situation in each of these countries there would not be possible to stabilize the region and to democratize these societies and states.

 

Workshop No 3: Debating club – Pro et contra the state contract of Serbia and Montenegro – does it mean the end of any Yugoslavia?

Two students speak in favor and two ones speak against this contract. Students are chosen independently of national identity and personal convictions, because the logic of argumentation pro et contra was the focus of this workshop, designed like the debating club. The debate was extremly interesting because the speech of emotions, devotions, affections, passions was replaced with rational considerations of arguments either in favor of union between Serbia and Montenegro or in favor of finishing in this case the logic of desintegration of the Former Yugoslavia. Members of the debate were well prepared and convincing, and after 20 minutes 5 minutes per each of them to present arguments and additional 3 minutes for each of them to

 

Workshop No 4 Students make final agreements about who will write with whome and about which topic for the purpose of the written contributions for the forthcoming book. An idea is that students give their specific contributions – group or individual short articles for the forthcoming book.

 

IV PUBLICATIONS

 

Book Between Authoritarianism and Democracy: Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia - Institutional framework was published in BCS (Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian) in December 2002 and in English language in February 2003. Books were presented to the local and international public and received highest prizes from the professional community. We are presenting you short summaries of articles published in this book.

  

1. CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION

Prof. Arsen Bačić, Constitutional Order in the Republic of Croatia

Arsen Bačić cautiously and systhematically presented  the genesys of a constitutional question in Croatia from 1990. up to nowadays. There are given essential characteristics of the constitution. There is put an accent onto relation between legislative and executive power. There are also given suggestions how the Croatian constitution should be improved in order to enable establishing of the real constitutional democracy.

Prof. Nenad Dimitrijević, Constitutional Democracy for FR Yugoslavia: Between Reform and Revolution

Nenad Dimitrijević analyses possibilities for the future establishing of the constitutional democracy in Yugoslavia. His main question is how to overcome an existent situation defined by the lack of the constitutional democracy. In order to give an answer to above mentioned question, he considers three groups of the problems: first, how to define an existent political and constitutional reality of nowadays Yugoslavia; second, why should the constitutional democracy represent the best political arrangement for Yugoslavia; and third, how to conceptualize and contextually apply constitutional democracy in the case of Yugoslavia.

Dr Slobodan Vucetic, The Judge of The Constitutional Court of Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro – From Federation to Confederation

Slobodan Vucetic was asked after the forming of new type of association between Serbia and Montenegro, at the meeting of March 14th 2002, to take part and consider this actual topic. He explained controversions and difficulties concerned with forming the new state community which has not been neither federation nor confederation.

 

2.POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND POLITICAL ELITES

Prof Smiljana Leinert Novosel, Political System in Croatia

Smiljana Leinert gave the presentation of the political system in Craotia after 1990, and up to now. She analized especially the transfer from one-party to multi-party system, the role of the division of power, as well as mechanisms of preventing the realization of this division. She also analyzed in details tendentions which had appeared as the possible improvement of a liberal-democratic order in Croatia after the elections in January 2001.

 Alija Hodžić,  Forming of Governing Elites in the Republic of Croatia

This paper is complementary with Ana Matan's one; namely, there have been given two aspects of the theme Political Systems and Political Elites. Alija Hodžić analyzed socio-cultural characteristics of political and economic elites, formed after 1990. He did that on the basis of  relevant empirical surveys done in Croatia recently. He put an accent on advantages and disadvantages which this type of elites' development has had for the improvement of the liberal-democratic transformation in Croatia.

Prof. Slobodan Antonić, Political System and Elites in Serbia

Slobodan Antonić considers transformations of a political order and of the leading elites' structure in Serbia during the last ten years. He offeres relevant consideration of three phases through which Serbia has passed after the break-up of the communist regime: 1. Period of cesarism (1987-1993, with a transitional period from 1994 to 1997); 2. Period of sultanism (from 1998 to 2000); 3. Period of an electoral democracy (from the year 2000 and later on). He explains the noawdays character of  political order and of political elites. He also gives policy making suggestions about how the existent electoral democracy should and could be improved.

Prof. Srđan Darmanović, Peculiarities of Transition in Serbia and  Montenegro

Srđan Darmanović follows the logic of an analyses given by Serbian colleague Slobodan Antonić. He also points out specific features – compared with Serbia - of the political order in Montenegro and of somewhat different dynamic of its changes. He also considers the questions and problems connected with relation of Montenegro and Serbia inside Federation.

 

3. PARTY SYSTEMS

Goran Čular, Party System in Croatia

There is given systhematic analyses of a party structure of the Croatian parliament, programatic and practical-political features of these parties, changes in their program orientation and influence, (personal) dimension of the party-leaders' influence over the character, relevance and influence of the parties.

Prof. Vladimir Goati, Party Systems in Serbia and Montenegro

Goati elaborates four factors of influence connected with forming and evolution of party systems in Serbia and Montenegro: 1) ethnical clevages;2) left/right controversy; 3) electoral systems; 4) specific stimulations for party engagement connected with background social and political-cultural context. He also gives in the conclusion suggestions for an improvement of the ‘Political Organizations’ Law’. In addition, he indicates the necessity of the-long-run changes of political culture inside particular parties as well as in mutual relations among parties. He also indicates the necessity for diminishing a number of registered and/or active political parties in Serbia and Montenegro in order to get ‘more serious’ party systems.

 

4. JUDICIAL SYSTEMS

Prof. Alan Uzelac, Reform of Judiciary in Croatia and its Limits

They speak about normative and empirical dimension of an idea of an independent judiciary in Croatia after the year 1990. They put an accent at the political instrumentalization and manipulation which the regime had applied after establishing an independent state. Concerning the period after january 2001. they speak about difficulties and obstacles for getting really independent judiciary. They also give suggestions how to enable - as much as possible and as fast as possible - an advancement towards an independent judiciary. They open and discuss dilemmas which have been existent in theoretical (normative) and applicative (political) context.

Prof. Radmila Vasić, Reform of Judicial System in Serbia and Montenegro

These judicial systems have been approached from both legal-normative and empirical perspectives. The legal approach consists in examining laws, including their compatibility with international legal standards. Special attention is paid to existing practices of violation of hierarchy among statutes (e.g. laws which violate constitutions, or – in the Yugoslavian case – laws of member-states which violate federal statutes). This level of analysis is likely to demonstrate that the judiciary in Serbia and Montenegro has been frequently reduced to an instrument of ruling elite. After the first steps towards liberal-democratic transformation - first in Montenegro and later on in Serbia - there are better possibilities for establishing an independent judiciary, but still there are too many obstacles and resentments of the old regime in the field of judiciary.

 

5. ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

Prof. Srdjan Vrcan, Elections in Croatia: A Sypthomatic Case or an Anomaly?

Prof. Puhovski analyze the changes in Croatian electoral system, from the first elections in 1990. (majority system), through the mixed one and up to the proportional one in elections 2000. He elaborated advantages and failures of each of these solutions in the context of the proposed stabilization and improvement of a liberal-democratic order.

 Prof. Vladimir Goati, Electoral System in Serbia

Goati starts from an assumption that electoral system is one of the core features of any political system. Therefore, a decision to establish a certain type of electoral system - or to change it - always bears an important influence upon political life. The type of electoral system (majority, proportional, or some combination) has powerful effects on the political process because of the different consequences for realization of basic democratic values concerned with participation, proportional representation, equality, consensus, majority rule, strong government etc.

Goati describes changes of electoral system in Serbia during the last 10 years, and their political aims and consequences. In the conclusion he gives suggestions about what should be done in order to come closer to the standard of free and fair elections in Serbia – how to change electoral law.  He also points out the necessity of checking electoral lists of citizens as well as of an improvement in the field of media presentation.

Prof. Veselin Pavićević, Electoral System in Montenegro

Veselin Pavićević explains the change towards legal pluralism and features of electoral system in Montenegro, through the effects which have been given by proportional electoral system, by methods of mandates’ division, system of electoral units, methods of voting, systematic checking of citizens’ voting lists. In the conclusion he tries to draw eight lines of possible improvements of Montenegrin electoral system. He also follows the lines of Goati’s draft and gives the comparative approach concerning Serbia and Montenegro.

 

6. THERITORIAL ORGANIZATION AND REGIONALISM

Prof. Lino Veljak, Theritorial Organization and Regionalism in Croatia

There is analyzed regional division of Croatia, legal solutions for the local government and self-government, political dilemmas on the relation centralism-regionalism, policy making suggestions for an optimal balance between state unity and regional authonomy. There has especially been considered the problem of relating regionalism and multiculturalism, with putting an accent on policy making imrovements.

 Prof. Alpar Lošonc, Theritorial Organization and Regionalism in Serbia – Vojvodina

Prof. Lošonc followed the same methodology, problems and dilemmas as Prof. Veljak did, but with a concrete-historical application, namely through the consideration of Vojvodina and its place in Serbia, as well as the consideration of the problem of regionalization of Serbia as a whole. He considers the problem of constitutional as well as socio-cultural solutions for minority rights guarantees and balancing ethnic and minority-majority problems.

 

7. STABILITY PACT AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Prof. Nebojša Vučinić, Stability Pact in the Region – Expectationas and Results

Nebojša Vučinić considers first, the idea and aims of the Stability Pact, second, specific problems which have existed among Croatia and FRY (Serbia, Montenegro) from the point of the previous 10 years happenings and from the point of the regional conflict resolution and European integration. He puts the special attention to the problems, unrealized expectations, critical remarks with which Stability Pact project has been progressively faced as well as to the policy making suggestions concerned with how to improve the project of this region's conflict resolution, deeper and wider regional cooperation and also step-by-step European integration.

  

The second phase of the program realisation has already started and will be finished up to the end of 2003. It is called CIVIL SOCIETY AND POLITICAL CULTURE IN TRANSITIONAL PROCESSES – Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia. There will be also published the book under the title: Between Authoritarianism and Democracy: Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia – Civil Society and Political Culture.