Društveno-politički kontekst, uzroci i posljedice svebošnjačkih okupljanja tokom XX. vijeka – je li vrijeme za prvi sabor Bošnjaka u XXI. vijeku?
The Socio-Political Context, Causes, and Consequences of All-Bosniak Gatherings during the 20th Century - Is it Time for the First Bosniak Assembly in the 21st Century

Summary/Abstract: Throughout the 20th century, Bosniaks, in a very challenging socio-political context, initiated and organized several gatherings that could be considered “all-Bosniak assemblies,” as they were attended by the most responsible Bosniak representatives in all fields of socio-political activity - from academic, cultural, economic, and religious to party-political. By carefully analyzing the all-Bosniak gatherings during the 20th century, we have identified three distinct assemblies, or congresses: the first in 1928, the second in 1993, and the third in 1994. At these congresses/assemblies, Bosniak intellectual, cultural, political, and religious representatives discussed the most important socio-political issues for the survival of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosniak people. Based on the adopted positions, guidelines were established to guide Bosniak politics. Each of the preceding three assemblies presented very difficult challenges to Bosniak intellectuals, which required the most adequate responses according to the time and place in which the Bosniaks found themselves, following the maxim: secundum loca et tempora. The paper contextualizes the socio-political circumstances in which all three Bosniak congresses/assemblies were held, presents their goals, conclusions, and consequences. Two decades have already passed in the 21st century, and Bosniaks have yet to launch more serious actions to gather cultural, intellectual, economic, religious, and political representatives who, by uniting and overcoming all internal differences, could help deal more effectively with the challenges of contemporary socio-political processes, internal, regional, and global. Instead of taking action, Bosniaks seem to be waiting for an external initiator, a certain spiritus movens. It’s as if they fail to recognize that the initiator of the first all-Bosniak assembly in the 21st century should come from within themselves, from members of the Bosniak academic, cultural, religious, economic, and political community, including other qualified and interested societal subjects. However, if Bosniaks believe that it is still not time for an all-Bosniak assembly and defining the fundamental principles of Bosniak politics in the 21st century, they should at least learn from the past when they gathered on the broadest platform amidst the rain of grenades and during a time when they were victims of aggressor and fascist policies from neighboring countries, which resulted in economic destruction, urban destruction, and genocide.

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