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The Typhus Epidemic in Serbia in 1915: The Role of Dr Richard Strong's American Medical Mission
No full textČlanak o epidemiji tifusa u Srbiji 1915. godine i stranim medicinskim misijama, s naglaskom na američku misiju dr. Stronga, koje su došle u Srbiju radi suzbijanja epidemije
Expert Survey on Party Ideology in Former Socialist Countries, 1990-2017
No full textData set on ideology of ruling political parties and coalitions in former socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. Data is retrieved from an expert survey which included a multinational panel of 273 experts on party systems of 16 countries. The survey was conducted online in June and July 2017 by Dejan Bursać, researcher at the Belgrade-based Institute for Political Studies, as a part of his doctoral research at the University of Belgrade. The respondents were asked to locate each party on a general left-right scale, considering all aspects of party policy and all relevant information about a party position. Ideology of each party is presented numerically in the one-dimensional policy space, ranging from 0 (extreme left) to 10 (extreme right), for every parliamentary term/government since the first multi-party elections after the fall of socialism (and in some cases, after achieving national independence) in all 16 countries of the sample. Average ideology of every government is presented as a weighted mean of member parties, in relation to their parliamentary strength. This document is accompanied by a separate excel database. Please cite accordingly: Bursac, Dejan (2018). Expert survey on party ideology in former socialist countries, 1990-2017. Retrieved from: http://www.ips.ac.rs/researchers/dejan-bursac
Local Public Libraries as Human Rights Intermediaries
No full textTraditionally, the literature has recognised the role of public libraries in the promotion of human rights, through their efforts in making information accessible to anyone, irrespective of their personal circumstances. At the same time, scholars have largely overlooked their potential in the protection of human rights. This article shows that libraries can make an important contribution to the protection function, by using the example of cooperation between the National Ombudsman of Serbia and 15 local public libraries in smaller municipalities. The research is framed within the Orchestration theory, recently developed by Abbott and others. We demonstrate that the relationship between the Ombudsman and local libraries can successfully be analysed with O-I-T framework, where the Ombudsman (Orchestrator) enlists local libraries (Intermediary) to become more accessible to citizens (Target), providing them with an easier way to communicate their human rights concerns and lodge a complaint with this key human rights remedy mechanism, by using the video communication software installed in local libraries. The results of this research could serve to inspire similar studies exploring the application of the Orchestration theory on the complex multi-actor human rights dynamics from a global perspective to national and local environments. While this research was inspired by the Serbian experience, its key policy implication is that innovative cooperation between a national human rights institution (NHRI) and local libraries is perfectly applicable to other states as well. The design of the project implemented in Serbia can be copied successfully worldwide, as it is not based on complicated infrastructural or institutional changes, but on creative and cost-effective idea
Žene u organizovanom kriminalu
No full textDruštveno okruženje definiše spremnost pojedinca na određeni društveni i preduzetnički rizik, pa se o dimenzijama pasivnog i aktivnog učešća u organizovanom kriminalu može rasuđivati na osnovu odnosa moći koje organizovani kriminal reflektuje unutar političke i ekonomske sfere. Iako rodni odnosi imaju različite društvene profile i unutrašnju dinamiku u zemljama sa različitim tradicijama društvenog upravljanja, statistički podaci o kriminalu ukazuju na to da je uključivanje žena u organizovane kriminalne aktivnosti globalni fenomen. Transideološki kapacitet organizovanog kriminala, kao i stepen procesa transnacionalnog povezivanja, značajno utiču na promene rodnih relacija unutar organizovanog kriminala, a time i na postojanje nove dinamike unutar rodnih odnosa u organizovanom kriminalu.
Autorke u radu nastoje da daju prilog produbljenom razumevanju pomeranja rodnih granica u sferi organizovanog kriminaliteta postavljajući ih u prostor u kome se ove granice prožimaju u interaktivnom odnosu socio-kulturnih procesa unutar i izvan organizovanog kriminala. U radu se sagledavaju uticaj i društvene, ekonomske i psihološke posledice pomeranja rodnih granica u sferi delovanja organizovanog kriminala, sa ciljem da se identifikuju, osvetle i utvrde uporišne tačke procene mesta i uloga žena u savremenom organizovanom kriminalitetu.The social setting defines individual readiness to take certain social and entrepreneurial risk. Hence, power relations offer a view over dimensions of active and passive participation in organized crime as it is being reflected in the political and economic arena. Although gender relations have a different social profile and internal dynamics in different countries with different traditions of social management, statistical data on crime indicate involvement of women in organized crime to be a global phenomenon. The trans-ideological capacity of organized crime and degree of transnational interconnectidness, significantly affect changes in gender relations within the organized crime and generates new related dynamics. Gender boundaries transformation in organized crime sphere places those boundaries in the space of their interconnection in socio-cultural processes in and out of organized crime as a phenomenon. In this article, authors present the place and role of women in contemporary organized crime. The aim of the article is to highlight lines of influence and consequences of gender boundaries transformation within the framework of organized crime activities
Graničnici sećanja: Jevrejsko nasleđe i Holokaust
No full textThe book "Graničnici sećanja: Jevrejsko nasleđe i Holokaust" (Markers of Memory: Jewish Heritage and the Holocaust) is a result of a joint work by 19 scientists and experts from Serbia, France and the Netherlands in a field of culture, history, museology, art, education and Holocaust. Three sections: "Narratives of Post-Memory", "Museum and multimedia memory: Vaults of Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade" and "Teaching about the Holocaust" cover the key questions related to the Holocaust more than 70 years after the end of World War II: How do the society and the state treat Holocaust memory in Serbia and the region, Poland, France and the US? What is the relationship between the Holocaust and Jewish cultural and historical heritage today? How do museums and memorials treat the Holocaust memory? What is teaching about the Holocaust and its significance? This collection of works was realized in cooperation with Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade and is one of the first projects financed from the dedicated funds of the Republic of Serbia under The Law on the Elimination of the Consequences of the Deprivation of the Property of Holocaust Victims Without Living Legal Successors
Mедијски зависници у Србији: димензије проблема и могућа решења
No full textAdvances in mobile devices technology enabled media access anywhere and anytime. The appearance of social networks opened new realms of life simulation, potentially boosting media addictions. Personal characteristics in combination with stressful situations may be causing repression of inner impulses, thus provoking some psychological conditions such as depression, anxiety or loneliness. In this situation, person might look into characteristics and content of different media to find the one which addresses his or her repressed impulses, thus enabling ―simulation of life‖. Person susceptible to one addiction might at some point decide to change it with another one, like alcohol or drugs use. The results of this research indicate that materialistic persons oriented towards societal success are more likely to become media addicts. Stressful situations coming from family, workplace, education and moral and ethical norms are strongly linked to media addiction. Family as a liberating agent has been found to correlate with a decrease in levels of media addiction. The repression of inner impulses has been increasing with levels of media addiction. Media addiction has been increasing with those research participants with feelings of happiness tied to shopping.Све већи број корисника медија, као и могућност сталног приступа путем
мобилних уређаја – чине медијску зависност важном темом за друштво. С обзиром на наведено, ова студија има задатак да проучи како медијска зависност настаје и којим стратегијама и превентивним политикама ју је могуће умањити. У
уводу су цитирани различити аутори како би се пружио приказ претходних истраживања повезаних са личним особинама, стресним ситуацијама и потискивањем
унутрашњих импулса као предуслова за настајање медијске зависности. Такође је
разматрање различитих врста зависности било у средишту истраживања, тј. питање зашто је зависник изабрао баш одређену врсту зависности, а не неку другу.
Овде се успостављају истраживачке хипотезе. Наредна секција у раду објашњава методологију која је коришћена да се
испита медијска зависност у Србији. У овом делу излажу се питања из анкете која
се односе на узроке настајања медијске зависности.
Затим се излажу резултати истраживања који потврђују хипотезе. Укратко,
утврђено је да су људи са материјалистичким аспирацијама који желе друштвено
потврђен успех посебно погодни да постану медијски зависници. Такође, окидачи
за медијску зависност могу бити различите стресне ситуације из свакодневног
живота, што укључује сфере као што су образовање, рад, породица итд. С друге
стране, постоји само једна сфера која је у јасној негативној корелацији са медијском зависношћу и то је породица. Мала је вероватноћа да људи који осећају да је
„породица њихова слобода‖ постану медијски зависници. Поред тога, утврђено је
да међу људима који воле да купују има више медијских зависника у односу на
групу оних који то не воле да раде. Сви поменути резултати истраживања су онда
стављени у контекст демографских података испитаника како би се добила и та
димензија.
На крају је цео процес медијске зависности још једном разматран кроз завршна запажања. Ово укључује медијску зависност и личне особине, стресне ситуације и потискивање унутрашњих импулса. Потенцијалне користи овог истраживања су наведене као, на пример, коришћења за државну стратегију против медијске зависности. Предлаже се универзална методологија за мерење медијске зависности према свим медијима, као и континуално мерење у више земаља како би
се добила слика у односу на ово глобално питање. Стратегија превенције медијске
зависности предложена је с обзиром на истраживачки резултат који говори о утицају јаке породице да се смањи медијска зависност
Attitudes and Happiness in Serbia
No full textThe Annual Attitude Examination Survey consisting of 366 questions was
deployed on nationally representative sample in Serbia to get 2608 valid inputs
on the Oxford Happiness Inventory and Multiple Lickert scale questions concerning
attitudes, fears, media use and closeness of different social categories to
the participants. Research results confirm that happiness is affected by certain
attitudes and characteristics of research participants such as those indicating
openness to new experiences, being people loving, optimistic, positive, future
and present focused, knowledge oriented, relaxed, creative, helping, just and
empathetic. This is the first happiness research in Serbia. Future inquiries of
this kind should be moved towards the Internet as a source of continuous data
