CURRICULUM VITAE
DUŠAN SVETOLIK JANJIĆ
Position:
Born:
Senior Researcher of Centre for Sociological Research, Institute of Social
Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia-SCG;
Founder and Coordinator of Forum for Ethnic Relations, Belgrade,
Serbia-SCG;
March 28, 1950 in Vranje, Serbia - SCG.
Address:
Institute of Social Sciences and Forum for Ethnic Relations, 11000
Beograd, Kraljice Natalije 45, Serbia-SCG.
Home:
11000 Belgrade, Mileševska 25 Serbia – SCG.
Phone:
+ 381 11 3445875 (Home)
Phone/Fax
+ 381 11 361 66 54 Institute
+ 381 11 3620781 FER
+ 381 11 3620804 FER
+ 381 63 337 495
Cellular
Education:
Professional
Experience:
International
Conferences:
Topics:
Ph.D. (1987) on the relations between state and Nation and definitions of
nation, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade.
MA (1977) in Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade
BA (1973) in Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade
Specialised in sociology and ethnic conflicts and conflict resolution.
Currently conducting a research on democratisation in Central-East
Europe and its effects on the ethnic relations.
Aalborg, Amsterdam, Athens, Berlin, Beograd, Bonn, Bologna,
Bucharest, Budapest, Burg Schlaining, Canterbury, Krakow, Dalmasted,
Dayton, Egmond aan Zee, Firenze, Forli, Fribourg, Geneva, Gorizia,
Halki, Hamilton, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Knokke – Heist, Krakow,
Leaven, Lecce, London, Lo-Skolen / Ellsinore, Lucerne, Maribor,
Moscow, New York, Nijmegen, Prague, Prishtina, Rome, Sofia, Split,
Strasbourg, Subotica, Umea, Warsaw, Washington DC, Zagreb.
Sociology of (Ethno) Nationalism; Nationalism, State and Ethnicity;
Ethnic Conflicts and their Resolution; Human and Minorities Rights;
Political Movements and Ideologies; Peace Making and Building, etc.
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Written and
Edited:
Author of more than 100 editions (books, articles, etc.), as follows: An
Open Question about Nation, Belgrade, 1980; Vocabulary of a
Nationalist, Belgrade, 1986, Second Edition, 1988; Nation Determination
(Analysis of “elements of nation”, nation determination, synthetic
determination of nation), PhD Thesis, Belgrade, 1987; State and Nation,
1988; What is a Nation?, Belgrade, 1993; Report on juridical,
sociological and political aspects of the national policy and minority
protection in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Trento, l993; Bosnia
and Herzegovina from War and Peace, Institute of Social Sciences and
the Forum for Ethnic Relations, Belgrade, 1972 (English and Spanish
edition in the Former Yugoslavia: From War to Peace, Valencia, 1993);
Conflict or Dialogue. The Serb-Albanian Relations and Integration of
Balkans (Published in Serbian, Albanian, and English), Subotica,
Pristina, 1994; Serbia between the Past and the Future (Serbian and
English, Belgrade, 1995 and 1997; Ethnic Conflicts and Minorities in a
Multiethnic Society, Norrkoping, 2002; Kosovo between Conflict and
Dialogue. Ethnic Conflict and the Identity Crisis: The Case of Serb –
Albanian Relations, Forum for Ethnic Relations, Belgrade, 2003 and
2004.
Member of
professional guilds: Serbian Sociological Association (1975 -) Yugoslav and Serbian
Associations For Political Sciences (1977 -); International Association
for Minorities and Regional Study (1987 -); International Society for the
Study of European Ideas (ISSEI) (1990 -); Forum for Ethnic Relations
(FER), Co-ordinator (1990 -); Helsinki Citizens Assembly (1991 -);
European Movement in Serbia, General Secretary, 1992 -1994 (1992-);
Project on Ethnic Relations, Princeton, USA (PER) (1992 -) Member of
Council for Ethnic Accord (PER) (2000-); Executive Board of the Soros
YU Found (1992-1994); International Network Europe and The Balkans,
Bologna, Italy (1992-); Nordic International Studies Association /NISA/
(1993-); International Association for Conflict Management (IACM)
(1994 -); Ethnic Studies Network (ESN) (1994 -), Iinternational board of
the Canter for European Refugees, Migration and Ethnic Studies).
(CERMES)
Chief Editor and Editor of various professional journals and publishing institutions; Founder
and Chef in Editor of Magazines "Europe" and “Forum”
Consultant in Consulting Company DPI – Development Partnership
International, Bern, Swiss
Basic political
and NGOs
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activities:
Member of Serbia Communist League (SK Srbije, 1968-1988)
Founder and Vice President of Socialdemocracy Party (1997 – 1999)
Founder and Coordinator of the Forum for Ethnic Relations; Founder and
First Secretary General of the European Movement in Serbia; Member of
the Council for Ethnic Accord – Project on Ethnic Relations, Princeton,
USA; Helsinki Citizens Assembly
Since 1989, a founder and coordinator of the Forum for Ethnic Relations,
a nongovernmental organization seated in Belgrade, engaged in research,
analyses, education and training in the field of ethnic conflicts, institution
building and support to multiculturalism at the local and regional levels.
110 leading experts from former Yugoslavia, the Balkans, Europe and
the U.S.A founded the Organization. Within the Forum’s activities,
particularly engaged in the mediation process (fact-finding missions,
contacts, organization of meetings and preparation of negotiation
platforms and documents) between leaders of political parties of
Albanians from Kosovo and from Serbia, 1992 – 1997; training and
support to young leaders belonging to ethnic minority political parties,
nongovernmental organizations in Serbia and Montenegro; training
courses for officers and officials of local administration in multiethnic
communities of Montenegro; work with nongovernmental organizations
of IDPs from Kosovo and strategic planning and assistance to moderate
politicians of the Serbian coalition Povratak (Return )from Kosovo.
The author of the draft program (the idea of founding of and the political
program of action) of the Alliance of Reformist Forces of Yugoslavia in
1990, as a coalition of political parties for federal elections, which was
later on known as the party of former federal prime minister Ante
Markovic.
One of the founders of the European Movement in Serbia, a
nongovernmental organization advocating joining the European Union,
1991 and the founder of the European Movement in Serbia and its first
secretary-general, 1992 – 1995, in charge of drafting of program
documents and development of local and national networks. The
European Movement in Serbia was admitted to the International
European Movement as a full member in 1994.
One of the founding members of a nongovernmental organization the
Belgrade Circle that has gathered together intellectuals and has
advocated peace, dialogue and reconciliation in the territory of former
Yugoslavia.
The author of the project on establishment, and one of implementing
partners, of the International Network Europe and the Balkans, Bologna,
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Italy, that has been mobilizing since 1993 NGOs and universities from
the Balkans, Europe, Russia and the U.S.A., its basic objective being
organization of round tables, training programs and summer schools on
ethnic conflicts, transition, democratization, enlargement of the EU and
Euro-Atlantic integrations.
Since 1993 to the present day, the Forum for Ethnic Relations has been
the sister organization of the Project on Ethnic Relations, Princeton,
U.S.A., engaged to the largest extent in the Serbian – Albanian dialogue,
but also in ethnic relations and minority issues in Yugoslavia itself, and
since 1999, in regional cooperation in the Western Balkans. Since 1999,
the member of the Council for Ethnic Accord – Project on Ethnic
Relations, USA.
From 1994 – 1996, the director and member of the editorial board of the
quarterly in the Serbian and English languages Evropa, the legal founder
of which is the European Movement in Serbia and the publisher joint
stock company Evropa press.
The founder of the opposition party of the left center Socijaldemokratija
(Social Democracy) and its member until August 1999. The creator of
the political program, the election bible of Socijaldemokratija for
parliamentary elections in 1997, and in charge of development of the
party network in Vojvodina and central Serbia – Sumadija. In brief,
president of the party for a month, and for the remaining period its vicepresident in charge of international cooperation and contacts with
organizations such as NDI and IRI in Belgrade and Washington, D.C.
From March 1999 to political changes on 5 October 2000, actively
engaged in organization of political opposition, especially in work with
NGOs. In April 1999, together with 16 NGOs and the union of
independent trade unions Nezavisnost (Independence), co-author of the
project and implementing actor for international contacts in the Region
and for enlargement in the provinces of Serbia of the network of the
Yugoslav Action NGO and UBTU Nezavisnost - JAG. In June 1999, I
was the initiator and founder of the association of local NGOs and civic
movements, all in all 26 from Serbia, into the General People’s
Movement (ONP), which joined civil protests. Also, one of the initiators
and founders of the Union of NGOs of Serbia – UNOS, which assembles
around 100 NGOs from Serbia. The Forum itself was particularly active
in the creation of a strategic platform on Kosovo (Statement on Kosovo),
principles of the constitutional declaration for post-Milosevic Serbia and
the constitutional minority law of Serbia.
From May, when the Service of state security closed down the Forum
and a number of leading NGOs in Serbia, and conducted an investigation
for alleged financial abuses but in fact for intimidation purposes, to 3
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July 2000, when lifted Serbia, engaged in international contacts for needs
of the opposition in Serbia.
Since the second half of 2001, the member of the Council of the
Committee of Lawyers for Human Rights – YUCOM, Belgrade.
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