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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. ZlatkoIsakovic 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
Prof. Dr. Zlatko IsakovicProfessorial FellowInstitute for European StudiesBelgrade, Serbia • Full ProfessorInternational University, Faculty of the Humanistic SciencesNovi Pazar, Belgrade DepartmentMailing Address:Pozeska 92, apt. 611030 BelgradeSerbiaTel./fax: +381 11 3551-158Email: isa@bitsyu.net • zlatkoi@diplomacy.bg.ac.rs
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
Democracy and Human Rights → Ethnic Conflicts Impacts: • Preventive and • resolving
Ethnic Conflicts → Democracy and Human Rights • Negative impacts of the ethnic and some other conflicts (in particular, violently escalated ones)
Conclusions • In some way and to some degree, the relations between democracy and ethnic conflicts could be compared with those between water and fire.
The more conflicts, the harder it is to achieve democracy and human rights protection and even more so to experience them and vice versa.
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/deescalatingthem.
An analogous conclusion can be created for the relationships between ethnic conflicts (especially escalated ones) and European integration as well as globalization processes.
There are a few various practical and theoretical solutions and answers of these dilemmas.