Legacy of Peace Initiatives

Twenty years have passed since the events, which marked the beginning of wars on the territory of former Yugoslavia, took place. Breakup of Yugoslavia and founding of new nation-states strongly influenced the society in all its aspects.
The young citizenry which, since mid-1980s, has become gradually liberated from the socialist ideology and met with undemocratic regimes, did not react in a passive manner. On July 4, 1991, a charter entitled "Let's prevent the war!" ("Spriječimo rat!") was issued with a memo written by the Green Action, establishing the Anti-War Campaign. Marking of this date is the occasion for organizing a regional conference, "Legacy of Peace Initiatives", with the aim of gathering peace activists and theoreticians to discuss the meaning of all anti-war and peace attempts from the early 1990s.

What was the reach of their actions in the society? In what way have they acted beside and against state institutions, and in what sense did they advocate for the establishment of a state of law? In what way have they influenced the affirmation of living in accordance with one's own consciousness and how have they influenced putting on the agenda different neglected social problems? How many lives have they saved? What was their treatment of theory? What tasks stand today in front of a systematic peace policy?

These are only some of the questions the organisers plan to open up for discussion.

PROGRAMME

DAY 1

17:00 - 18:30 Panel 1: Where were we and what did we do in the early 1990s?

Speakers
- Vehid Šehić
- Staša Zajović
- Ljiljana Gehrecke
- Žarko Puhovski

Moderator
Vesna Teršelič

19:00 – 20:30 Panel 2: General development of the society and state in the past 20 years

Speakers
- Stef Jansen
- Vesna Pešić
- Tonči Kuzmanić
- Srđan Dvornik

Moderator
Dejan Jović

DAY 2

09:30 – 11:00 Panel 3: Culture in the anti-war engagement

Speakers
- Nikolai Jeffs
- Dejan Kršić
- Ronald Panza
- Borka Pavičević

Moderator
Davor Mišković

11:30 – 13:00 Panel 4: Journalism between war and peace

Speakers
- Veran Matić
- Milka Tadić
- Drago Hedl
- Vesna Kesić
- Boro Kontić

Moderator
Tanja Tagirov

14:00 – 15:30 Panel 5: Reflecting peace activism

Speakers
- Bojan Bilić
- Marko Hren
- Paul Stubbs
- Vlasta Jalušič

Moderator
Vesna Janković

16:00 – 17:30 Panel 6: Foreigners - volunteers

Speakers
- Wam Kat
- Howard Clark
- Eric Bachman
- Dorie Wilsnack
- Christine Schweitzer

Moderator
Goran Božičević

18:00 – 19:30 Panel 7: Past and future of activism

Speakers
- Biserka Momčinović
- Boro Kitanoski
- Valdete Idrizi
- Nenad Vukosavljević

Moderator
Aida Bagić

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