Prilog poznavanju djelovanja Srpskog kulturnog društva „Prosvjeta“: pododbor „Branko Radičević“ u Slavonskom Brodu 1990.-1991.

Author(s): Mladen Barać / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 13/2013

In this paper the author, using primarily fragmentary archive sources and periodicals of that time, has in large part reconstructed the activities of the Branko Radičević sub-committee in Slavonski Brod of the Serb Cultural Association “Prosvjeta” in the period of 1990-1991. The overall democratization of Croatian society after the fi rst free multiparty elections in 1990 enabled a reaffi rmation of cultural activities of various ethnic entities that had been suppressed by the Yugoslav one-party system. At the Slavonski Brod local level a valuable example was offered by the Branko Radičević sub-committee of the “Prosvjeta” cultural association which, during the short period of its existence, tried to develop systematic cultural and educational activities with the objective of publicizing and preserving the identity of the Serb national minority in the Brod area. It is important to point out that the activities of the sub-committee took place during a period in which intercommunal relations deteriorated as a result of public pronouncements by the local branch president of the Serbian Democratic Party and as a result of the political situation at the republican level, which was exacerbated by the political confrontation (subsequently also the beginning of the aggression by the armed forces) between the Serbian political leaders, the leadership of rebel Croatian Serbs and the Yugoslav People’s Army and the Croatian government. Lack of knowledge of certain circumstances and the cause for the decision to terminate further activities of the sub-committee limits the possibilities of an overall conclusion in regard to its activities. Thus, the given reconstruction, covering the period of the establishment of the sub-committee to the point of the termination of its activities, provides an insight into its basic characteristics allowing only a limited estimation of the functioning of the sub-committee within the cultural life of the municipality of Slavonski Brod. It is obvious that the chief motives for the establishment of the sub-committee were shaped by the need to escape the decades-long restrictive frame of cultural activities that had typifi ed the Yugoslav communist society, in which various national identity factors were unacceptable. The dynamics of political and accordingly of inter-ethnic relations in the municipality Slavonski Brod represented a second motive, all the more in regard to the need for the existence of a Serbian cultural association, recognized by its founders. This association would not separate but rather bring closer together various ethnic groups of this territory and provide a counterbalance to the rhetoric and public activities of the Brod fraction of SDS (Serb Democratic Party). The most persuasive evidence of this statement is given in a review of cultural events organized by this sub-committee during its four months of active work.

Prikazi i osvrti

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 13/2013

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Разумно телесно кажњавање деце као неотуђиво родитељско право

Author(s): Zoran Milivojević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

In this paper the author provides arguments against the initiative to impose a legal ban on parental corporal punishment of children. The author points to unfairness of intentional elimination of differences between corporal punishment and physical abuse and violence. Corporal punishment is seen as a technique of punishment, which is, as such, part of disciplinary methods, which are, in turn, just a small part of upbringing and raising children. The author also defines reasonable corporal punishment as a legitimate and legal means which causes pain, but does not cause injuries to the child. There are three situations in which corporal punishment can be the only or the most efficient method. The author provides guidelines which can serve to distinguish between corporate punishment and physical abuse and defines all false assumptions which are the basis of the initiative to impose a legal ban on parental corporal punishment of children.

Слобода и сексуалност

Author(s): Srđan Nikolić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

Хомосексуалност и „парада поноса“

Author(s): Mario Kalik / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

This text begins by spotting the dual character of the ‘Pride Parade’, i.e. its carnival and protest aspects. The carnival aspect of this event is not legitimate because it promotes homosexuality as a socially acceptable and a normal sexual orientation. From a modern perspective of Kant’s moral philosophy, homosexuality cannot be normal, and it therefore cannot be generally accepted as a social value, because it cannot be universalized in practice, i.e. it cannot be a general principle. A world in which homosexuality would have a universal value would be doomed. Therefore, homosexuality cannot be on an equal footing with heterosexuality, which is what gay ideology requires. Heterosexuality is and must remain the fundamental and dominant sexual orientation. It is the only natural and normal form of sexuality, while homosexuality deviates from this nature and normality, even if it is doubtless that it is not a mental disease. An extremist attack on the categories of norm and normality, launched by some proponents of gay ideology, is ridiculous, but is also extremely dangerous. However, regardless of the fact that in terms of principles and norms homosexuality is not legitimate, it can still be expressed as minority sexual orientation. That is why aggressive attacks of the conservative right on homosexuals are unacceptable and are just another extreme, as bad as the militant wing of gay ideology. Homosexuals must be guaranteed certain basic human and civil rights, starting with the right to enjoy their sexual relationships and not to be discriminated against in their professional and social rights, including the right to register their partnerships. Therefore, the protest aspect of the ‘Gay Parade’ is absolutely legitimate. However, these rights have to be followed by fulfilling duties in terms of moral and social duties of procreation and raising children. Even if they cannot directly contribute to this task, homosexuals can participate in and help to achieve this significant value and goal in many indirect ways.

Насиље над насилницима

Author(s): Željko Krstić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

Violent behavior of prison inmates stems primarily from faults in the system, but also from individuals’ temper and behavior, i.e. from inmates and prison employees. Prisons and prison management and some prison officers encourage and approve of existence of informal groups, i.e. inmates’ communities, which they use to exercise control over prison inmates. However, this false sense of peace is based on compromises and its price is huge, usually paid by inmates who want to serve their sentences in peace, as well as by employees and other prison officers who try to do their jobs professionally. This informal system is an invisible meeting place of all participants who are mistakenly thought to be in constant conflict. However, there are more similarities than differences between these two entities. We can identify several types of prison officers, as is the case with prisoners

Један другачији поглед на геј параду

Author(s): Aleksandar Dikić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

Учење православне цркве о хомосексуализму: грех или „полна оријентација“

Author(s): Vladimir Dimitrijević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

In first part of this article author sums up the official attitude of some Orthodox churches about homosexuality. The second part presents the attitudes of some Orthodox priests, who were faced with the problem of homosexuality in pastoral practice. According to teachings of the Holy Fathers and according to the Church`s self-consciousness, the Church is a hospital where people are called to heal the sin. Reject sin, and with love help to a sinner who repents - such is the relationship of the Church toward homosexuality and homosexuals.

Геј покрет и борба за признатост

Author(s): Slobodan Č. Antonić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

The emergence of intolerance towards LGBT people is often the subject of debate and criticism. However, the intolerance demonstrated by some gay activists - especially in societies where the LGBT movement is strong - not only towards critics of the gay movement, but also to persons thinking differently about a „gay issue“, is little studied phenomenon. In this article author, first, presented some typical cases of such intolerance, and then discussed two distinctive explanations for this behavior. Both explanations are evaluated, and, in conclusion, author once again pledged, at the methodological level, for the pluralist approach and multicausative model of explanation, and, in the field of social policy, for the full accepting of mutual tolerance in opinions and in value standpoints.

Заштита деце или „вршњачко насиље“ над родитељима

Author(s): Saša Đurić,Nenad Ilić,Milan Škulić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

О хомосексуалности, педофилији и закону о забрани дискриминације

Author(s): Slobodan Janković / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

Homosexuality has become to be considered as an ordinary ‘normal’ lifestyle in recent decades. Battles of homosexual and pro-homosexual activist still continues and are now focused on marriage and rights to adopt children. Many of the researchers who advocated and helped decriminalisation of homosexualism and extromission of it from the lists of mental disorders are today advocating the same for the pedophilia. Serbian politicians, international governmental organisations, LGBT organisations and civil society organisations funded by western governments have advocated the Law against discrimnation. This Law, proclaimed in 2009, not onlz that endangers and utterly limits the freedom of speech, but it provides measures that cherish to promote LGBT rights more than in vast majority of countries. The issue of the homosexual normality is still on the table since the research shows it is linked to several mental disorders and does itself is a pathology. It seems that there is also link between homsexualism and pederasty, but that question is only posed and not answered in this study.

О „паради поноса“ и слабости државе

Author(s): Đorđe Vukadinović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

Како пронаћи решење за суживот с геј популацијом

Author(s): Aleksandar Dikić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

Парада је само почетак

Author(s): Ostoja Simetić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

Рецензије, прикази

Author(s): Vladislav Đorđević,Mario Brudar,Ratko Mitrović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 01+02/2011

Ratko Mitrović - Kosovo and the Dark Side of Human Rights Policy (Hans Hofbauer, Eksperiment Kosovo) - 279 Mario Brudar - More than Recollection, Less than Testimony (Vilijam Mintgomeri, Kad ovacije utihnu: borba sa demokratskom tranzicijom) - 284 Vladislav Đorđević - In Defense of Dignity of Science (Slobodan Antonić, Iskušenja radikalnog feminizma: moć i granice društvenog inženjeringa - 287

Erinnerung an den Zweiten Weltkrieg: 'Savez antifašista Srbije' als Akteur des Erinnerns in Serbien

Author(s): Roland Zschächner / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2012

"Versöhnung auf dem Balkan - rechtliche und politische Fragen": Berlin, 27.01.2012, Osteuropa-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin: Tagungsbericht

Author(s): Ivan Brčić / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2012

Die unmögliche Nation: Jugoslawen im Land von "Brüderlichkeit und Einheit"

Author(s): Ksenija Cvetković-Sander / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2012

'Traditional bonds between Orthodox brothers' : notions of Greek-Serbian friendship

Author(s): Ruža Tokić / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2012

Die Arbeitslosigkeit in Mazedonien: Herausforderungen für eine reale Beitritts- und Integrationspolitik der EU

Author(s): Stefan Pavleski / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2012