The monograph provides an insight into the unique and at the same time not well known mix of cultural, linguistic, ethnic and other social features, which are present among the inhabitants of four villages in the south of Bela Krajina. This border area due to Uskok origin of indigenous inhabitants in these respects differs from the surrounding area for centuries, though the situation does not remain static. The monograph is the result of years of research in this area and seeks to answer the following questions in particular: Can the population of these villages be regarded as articulated national community with all the features that are generally regarded as a necessary condition for recognition of an ethnic group as a national minority in international practice? Does this population desire the status of a national minority and does it possess adequate social vitality that would enable it to exercise the minority rights in case of recognition of the status of a national minority? Translation of the monograph in the Serbian language provides for the dissemination of the results of the scientific research of the INV/IES to a wider interested public in the international arena, particularly in the area of former Yugoslavia. After two presentations of the publication in Belgrade and Niš we got many positive responses to the monograph from the Serbian academic community and the wider public.
F.02 Acquisition of new scientific knowledge
COBISS.SI-ID: 12337997Since 2001, Mateja Sedmak has been the editor of the scientific journal Annales, which ranks among the most important slovene journals, dealing in particular with issues to which the project group is mainly interested, and is also indexed in several important international citation bases.
C.05 Editorial board of a national magazine
Council of Europe contracted the authors to draft the report on constitutional, legislative and institutional framework in Albania pertaining to the situation of national minorities that shall focus also on the gap between the normative arrangements and the actual situation in specific spheres of life. The report follows the structure and formal logic of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM); it detects and analyzes the key problems indicated by the analysis in different spheres of life. In addition to the indication and description of problems, the analysis suggests also some possible recommendations and measures that could contribute to the improvement of the situation and rights of national minorities and persons belonging to them that shall be discussed by the Council of Europe and Albanian Government in the process of dialogue. This analysis and its practical implications represent a direct transfer of research and scholarly findings and results into social practice, politics and normative arrangements of the country pertaining to the situation and rights of national minorities in Albania.
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 12501837