Prof. Dr. Zlatko Isakovic

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Prof. Dr. Zlatko Isakovic

• Institute for European Studies, Belgrade
• DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND ETHNIC CONFLICTS IN
  SERBIA AND THE REST OF THE EUROPE IN THE
  PROCESSES OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND
  GLOBALIZATION

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• Prof. Dr. Zlatko IsakovicProfessorial
  FellowInstitute for European StudiesBelgrade,
  Serbia
• Full ProfessorInternational University, Faculty
  of the Humanistic SciencesNovi Pazar, Belgrade
  DepartmentMailing AddressPozeska 92, apt.
  611030 BelgradeSerbiaTel./fax 381 11
  3551-158Email isa_at_bitsyu.net
• zlatkoi_at_diplomacy.bg.ac.rs

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• The relationships between
• ethnic conflicts and
• democracy and human rights
• in Serbia and the rest of Europe
• within the processes of European integration and
  globalization

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Democracy and Human Rights ? Ethnic Conflicts

• Impacts
• Preventive and
• resolving

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Ethnic Conflicts ? Democracy and Human Rights

• Negative impacts of the ethnic and some other
  conflicts (in particular, violently escalated
  ones)

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Conclusions

• In some way and to some degree, the relations
  between democracy and ethnic conflicts could be
  compared with those between water and fire.

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• The more conflicts, the harder it is to achieve
  democracy and human rights protection and even
  more so to experience them and vice versa.

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• If a system cannot be qualified as democratic one
  and respectful for human rights, emerge the
  complex dilemma what should come first
• Developing democracy and respecting human rights
  or
• eliminating ethnic conflicts and/or preventing
  their escalations/deescalating them.

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• An analogous conclusion can be created for the
  relationships between ethnic conflicts
  (especially escalated ones) and European
  integration as well as globalization processes.

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• There are a few various practical and theoretical
  solutions and answers of these dilemmas.