“... real compromise is a situation where both sides are dissatisfied with the solution...” Henry Kissinger, Former US Secretary of State

That we live in the age of politics and political is not much of a novelty. Go out and sit in your local cafe. Provided that your local cafe is located somewhere in the countries of the Southeast Europe, the chances are that the people on the table next to you will sip their espresso calmly and discuss the local political scene in a rather heated fashion.

Politics or some of the skills necessary to the practitioners of that mystic art are used daily by pretty much every person on this planet. We negotiate the prices at the green markets, children negotiate the amounts of weekly allowances or “back home and in bed” deadlines with their parents. It had even managed, to some extent at least, to regulate the way we talk, through the concept of political correctness.

Naturally, that men (and women) are political animals – Aristotel’s “zoon politicon” – has been clear for at least 23 centuries. Politics, after all, are useful, as they provide the necessary instruments to reach policy decisions pertinent to the society and solve conflicts and problems in a peaceful manner, acceptable to the majority of citizens in a society. Read more

03.07.2008 The Centre for Development of Civil Society is concerned about the fact that instead of a Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, the competences in that area will be placed under the Ministry of Justice. CDCS finds that solution harmful in a variety of ways.

16.06.2008 Srđan Dizdarević, President of Bosnian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, responded, in an open letter addressed to the highest institutions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, to the invitation by Safet Halilović, Minister of Refugees and Human Rights, to take part in the Seminar on the proposed theses for preparation of the Anti-Discrimination Law.

02.06.2008 Miljenko Dereta, Executive Director of Civic Initiatives, comments on the triumph of pro-European parties in Vojvodina provincial elections and has some useful advise for former Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica.

22.02.2008 Last Saturday, February 16, the BORNA – Blogging Committee for Referendum on NATO was created in Zagreb. The Committee gathers individual bloggers active on blog.hr and bloger.hr portals, and on the group portal pollitika.com.