Who we are?

The Center for Democratic Transition - CEDET (Centar za demokratsku tranziciju) was founded in November 2000 and began work in December 2000 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The common work of the founding members of CEDET concerned with articulating the project "Institutional framework, socioeconomic transformation and political culture in FRY (Serbia and Montenegro) and Croatia" had started more than a year before the formal registration, namely in September 1999.
CEDET is a non-governmental, nonprofit, educational and scientific research organization, founded by teachers working at the University of Belgrade and the University of Novi Sad. Members of the Center are jurists, sociologists, economists, historians and other independent experts.
The basic aim of CEDET is to contribute, with its programs, projects and entire public activity to the advancement and practical implementation of ideas of human rights, the rule of law, modern market economy and an open and democratic society in the region of Southeast Europe. The basic activity of CEDET is comparative analysis of transitional processes in states and societies of Central and East Europe, and especially in the countries formed after the breakdown of Socialist Federal Republic Yugoslavia (SFRY).
Types of activities planned by CEDET are parallel/complementary theoretical and empirical investigations of transitional processes, publishing of books, organizing conferences, seminars, summer schools, and media presentation of the work.

The Director of CEDET is Dr Dragica Vujadinovic-Milinkovic, Professor of the Law School, University of Belgrade; the Vice-Director is Dr Aleksandar Molnar, Professor of The Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade; and the President of the Program Council is Dr Vladimir Goati, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Belgrade.