Nacionalni saveti u Vojvodini i mogućnosti izgradnje multikulturnog društva u Srbiji
National Councils in Vojvodina and the possibility of building a multicultural society in Serbia

Summary/Abstract: National councils have existed for a long time in the public and political life of the Republic of Serbia. They have a specific role in Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, but they are not sufficiently recognized and accepted as a genuine link between members of national communities and state bodies. National councils, thanks to the way they work, are elected and organized, have a lot of opponents, from the wider political community, regardless of political options to the civil society organizations and within the national communities as well. Certain requirements concern the “departysation” of the bodies of national councils, transparency in the work, the involvement of civil society organizations and professional organizations in the work of the council, and the necessity of cooperation with the bodies of political communities. At the same time, in the situation of ethnicization of political processes in Serbia, the question of the existence of national councils as an objectively “disturbing factor” in the political system of the state is raised, and it is hard to expect that the national councils can contribute to the construction of a multicultural society in the Republic of Serbia.

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