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President of the association “Monitor” docent Aleksandar R. Ivanović, held, with assistant professor Amela Lukac Zoranic (IUNP), joint lecture 24.01.2015. Students of the University College Buskerud in Drammen (Norway) on the topic “Multiculturalism in Serbia from the period of Yugoslavia to the present day”.

The lecture was aimed at students of specialist studies in the study program: Human Rights, Multicultural Understanding and Conflict Management, to familiarize themselves with the specifics of multiculturalism in Serbia from the period of Yugoslavia to the present day.

Students were acquainted with the origin and historical development of the idea of Yugoslav, as well as with historical facts about the creation of the first and second Yugoslavia. Particular attention was paid to the problems and unresolved national issues that both the first and the second Yugoslavia encountered. In this regard, they pointed out certain internal and external factors that led to the breakup of Yugoslavia and the bloody civil war. After that, they presented the multiethnic, multicultural and multiconfessional composition of today’s Serbia, stressing the importance of resolving minority rights issues and establishing democracy and the rule of law as a prerequisite for building an intercultural society.