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Paris nor Brussels!
Stop
terrorism!
We want to live in peace with all
our neighbors.
regardless of their religion, color and origin.
Therefore, we condemn any
kind of terrorism!
*****
Ne više Pariz ni Brisel!
Stop terorizmu!
Mi želimo živjeti u miru sa svim našim
komšijama,
bez obzira koje su vjere, boje kože i porijekla.
Zato mi osuđujemo svaku vrstu terorizma!


Prof. dr. Murray Hunter
University Malaysia Perlis


Eva MAURINA
20
Years to Trade Economic Independence for Political Sovereignty -
Eva MAURINA


Aleš Debeljak
In
Defense of Cross-Fertilization: Europe and Its Identity
Contradictions - Aleš Debeljak
ALEŠ
DEBELJAK - ABECEDA DJETINJSTVA
ALEŠ DEBEJAK
- INTERVJU; PROSVJEDI, POEZIJA, DRŽAVA


Rattana Lao holds a doctorate in Comparative and International
Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and is
currently teaching in Bangkok.

Rattana Lao
New picture from 2016


Bakhtyar Aljaf
Director of Middle-East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) in Ljubljana,
Slovenia


Rakesh Krishnan Simha Géométrie variable of a love triangle – India, Russia and the US


Amna Whiston
Amna Whiston is a London-based writer specialising in moral philosophy. As a
PhD candidate at Reading University, UK, her main research interests
are in ethics, rationality, and moral psychology.


Eirini Patsea
Eirini Patsea is a Guest Editor in Modern Diplomacy, and
specialist in Cultural Diplomacy and Faith-based Mediation.


Belmir Selimovic
Can we trust the government to do the right thing, are they really
care about essential things such as environmental conditions and
education in our life?


Dubravko Lovrenović


Manal Saadi
Postgraduate researcher in International Relations and Diplomacy at
the Geneva-based UMEF University


doc.dr.Jasna Cosabic
professor of IT law
and EU law at Banja Luka College,
Bosnia and Herzegovina


Aleksandra Krstic
, studied in Belgrade (Political Science) and in Moscow
(Plekhanov’s IBS). Currently, a post-doctoral researcher at the Kent
University in Brussels (Intl. Relations). Specialist for the
MENA-Balkans frozen and controlled conflicts.
Contact: alex-alex@gmail.com


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Assistant Professor in the Department
of Educational Administration, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of
Baroda, India. Decorated educational practitioner Dr. Sindhi is a
frequent columnist on related topics, too. She is the Vice President
of Indian Ocean Comparative Education Society (IOCES). Contact:
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MUSEUM 'INVISIBLE' GENERATION
Writes: Dzalila Osmanovic-Muharemagic
Many
still remember a sign at the door of National Museum of Bosnia and
Herzegovina stating „THE MUSEUM IS CLOSED“, which for years only
bothered few of the conscientious. Recently the museum has been
reopened in silence and without much fanfare, as if still someone
wants the public to be unaware of the times when Bosnia was not
prostrated, when it taught the others of tolerance, while its men
and women lived and died for its every corner. Right after the
reopening an unexpected route led me to the Museum, where a
prophetic recollection from my childhood made me realize I belong to
an „invisible“ generation.
Long time ago, at the beginning of high school, some good teacher
considered it would be useful for high school students, the future
intellectuals (today mostly well-educated, unemployed young people
or doing a menial job in a foreign country) to visit the Museum,
that basic cultural institution. It was an interesting fieldtrip,
without too much work, a lot of photos and mingling. Great for us –
the high school rookies!
There we watched some old rocks, beautiful
exponents of folk garments and much more. We watched, yet we saw
nothing... We did not see, since we did not know what there was to
see, since the entire primary school we learned about great
adventures of Marco Polo, Columbus, French Revolution and Hitler.
The history of Bosnia came at the very end, forced into one year; we
used to study from a dubious book with yellow leaves, published by
someone's order for some „higher purpose“ – whose purpose I learned
some years after that. I recall times when we were instructed to use
black markers to cross some words from those same yellow books – the
words we did not understand at the time. Now I understand well, the
„aggressor“ became a „constitutional citizen“, „Republic of B&H“
became a country without a constitutional prefix (apropos, probably
the only one in the world), „unique“ started to bother those who are
comfortable with us being divided, as it makes it easier for them to
snag for their descendants everything that they could never earn by
decent work and their competences.
Yet I say now, sane and using my own head - it is good that we
crossed those words – no matter how foolish it may sound. Even if we
want to prove who was right, we all fought for what we thought was
right and there is no one to blame. The word „think“ is actually the
problem, since we thought something was right, we did not
know what was right. We should have known that your true nation,
your ancestry, are the people who originate from people living with
your great-great-great – I repeat on purpose - grandparents.
You should not have let that 400 years of Ottoman reign and a fact
that you are a Muslim (by religion, not by nation) or an Orthodox,
now a Serb (by choice), wipe out the fact that one of your ancestors
might have been a father or an uncle of a Christian in medieval
Bosnian Church. But wait! This does not mean that only 100 years of
Serbian and Croatian dominance over Bosnia through Independent State
of Croatia, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Kingdom of
Yugoslavia and SFR Yugoslavia allows you to call that very same
Christian a Croat, and his Bosnian Church (name speaking for itself)
a Croatian Church.
How many of those from my „invisible“ generation have never been
taken by their teachers to visit the Museum, let alone to see
something, to learn who stepped this land before them, to understand
that the world did not start with their grandfather „the Yugoslav
Partisan“, nor is this country the same age as their dubious history
book. New generations from „alienated“ parts of Bosnia and
Herzegovina proclaim loudly and clearly that they know nothing of
the history of their birthland and they do not want to learn[1].
Their homeland is somewhere else, while this land where they live
should be loved and protected by someone else – it gave them nothing
anyway! While at the same time no one cares that the only things the
new generations can learn are separatism, corruption and nepotism,
distortion of history and lies! Hence for us, the „invisible“
generation, the Museum remains closed even if it is opened, while -
I am afraid - we will have nothing to leave behind to the future
generations but a facebook comment deleted by a single
click!
Reference
[1] A TV show „Perspektiva“
produced by Radio slobodna Evropa and foundation The National
Endowment for Democracy, (2015).
http://www.slobodnaevropa.org/media/video/perspektiva-prva-epizoda-mostar/26835252.html
Dzalila Osmanovic-Muharemagic
University
of Bihac, Faculty of Education, Department of English Language and
Literature - undergraduate
University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philology, Department of
English Language and Literature - graduate study
The additional professional training:
- Scholarship of the US Embassy in BiH for the
on-line program at the University of Oregon (USA), called E-Teacher
Scholarship Program, which includes online attendance object to the
master study at the University of Oregon for module English for
Special Purposes (2012).
- Certification Directorate for European Integration in Bosnia and
Herzegovina project cycle management and project preparation - Basic
training (2014).
- Certification Directorate for European Integration in Bosnia and
Herzegovina project cycle management and project preparation -
Advanced Course (2014).
- Certificate EU Academy for training Belgrade - HOW TO MAKE A GOOD
PROJECT FOR FUNDING RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PROGRAM EU "Horizon
2020"? (2015)
- Fellowship of the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in
Education and Research OeAD for research in order to develop the
master work through CEEPUS III program - Department of Humanities,
University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria
(February - March 2016)
Published works:
- Bilkid M., & Osmanovic Dž. (2015). Frequency
of English Language use in B&H university students and its influence
on language perceptions and identity. In Akbarov, A. (Ed.) The
Practice of Foreign Language Teaching: Theories and Applications.
Paper published at International Conference on Foreign Language
Teaching and Applied Linguistics, International Burch University,
Sarajevo, 9-10 May (pp. 334-351). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing.
- Bilkid M., & Osmanovid Dž. (2013). How many languages does Bosnia
and Herzegovina need: Analysing youth attitudes towards the use of
three official languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Bobaš, K.
(Ed.) Proceedings. Paper published at International Student
Conference „Juče, danas, sutra – slavistika“ , University of Zagreb,
Zagreb, 9-11 October (pp. 31-43). Zagreb: Kerschoffset.
May 18, 2016
Suicidal Nuclear Gambit on
Caucasus
(Game of Poker at
best, Game of Chess at worst, and neither option should be
celebrated)
By Petra Posega
Nuclear
security is seemingly in the vanguard of global attention, but the
large framework of international provisions is increasingly
perceived as a toothless tiger. In the contemporary age where
asymmetric threats to security are one of the most dangerous ones,
the time is high to mitigate the risk of rouge actors having
potential access to materials, necessary to develop nuclear weapons.
Nowhere is this urgency more pivotal than in already turbulent
areas, such as the South Caucasus. With many turmoil instabilities,
lasting for decades with no completely bulletproof conflict
resolution process installed, adding a threat of nuclear weapons
potential means creating a house of cards that can cause complete
collapse of regional peace and stability. That is precisely why
recently uncovered and reoccurring actions of Armenia towards the
goal of building its own nuclear capacity must be addressed more
seriously. They should also attract bolder response to ensure safety
of the region is sustained.
According to the report by Vienna-based nuclear watch-dog,
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Armenia has established
quite a record of illegal trafficking of nuclear and other
radioactive materials. There have been a couple of serious incidents
spanning from 1999 onward. A large number of reported incidents has
occurred on the country`s border with Georgia, tempting the IAEA to
conclude there is high probability that the so called Armenian route
does in fact exist. There is a further evidence to support this
assertion. There were an unusually high number of Armenians caught
in nuclear trafficking activities. Additionally, some of the
reported incidents that made their way to the official reports
suggested that the main focus of trafficking activities is in fact
smuggling of nuclear material that could be used for nuclear weapons
capabilities. There were also reports suggesting the trafficking of
other radioactive material that could be utilized for alternate
purposes, such as the building of a so called dirty bomb. Since the
stakes with nuclear weaponry are always high to the extreme, the
recognition of this threat must not be underrated and dismissed
easily.
Only days henceforth the latest illegal activities have been
uncovered by border control in April, 2016, former Armenian Prime
Minister Bagratyan shocked the international public with the claim
that Armenia indeed has nuclear capabilities and the ability to
further develop them. The main reason for the possession is to deter
neighbors such as Turkey and Azerbaijan. More specifically, to
discourage them from resorting to aggressive foreign policy measures
and mitigate potential threats to Armenian territorial integrity,
especially in the disputed regions. Even though Turkey and its
intelligence network was quick to dismiss these claims and labeled
them as a failed attempt to increase the geopolitical importance of
Armenia, as well as to deter its much more militarily capable
neighboring countries, such claims should not be taken lightly,
either. Thus, there is no cause for alarm yet.
However, there should be increased interest of the international
community to investigate these serious claims. If documented, they
would pose a grave desta-bilization factor for the already turbulent
region. They would also trigger deepening of hostilities and
mistrust in extremely delicate regional framework of peace.
The prospects and dangers of potential acquisition of a dirty bomb
by rouge actors are rising on the international agenda. The recently
detected activities in South Caucasus showed that there were
substantial efforts made in order to smuggle and illegally sell
Uranium 238, which is highly radioactive. At the beginning of 2016,
a different group was trying to smuggle a highly radioactive Cesium
isotope that usually forms as a waste product in nuclear reactors.
What is also worrying is that the majority of the activities are
occurring in highly instable and unmonitored territories of
Azerbaijan and Georgia that are under the control of separatists,
such as Nagorno- Karabakh and South Ossetia. The mere organization
of the Armenian route proves to show that illegal activities can
flourish in the security blind spots of the region.
There is also the Iranian connection. Armenia borders this Middle
Eastern country that found itself in the centre of global attention
until the ratification of The Joint Comprehensive plan of Action in
2015. The international agreement supposedly effectively mitigated
the risk of Teheran developing its own nuclear capabilities and
established a proper international regime to monitor compliance to
the installed provisions. However, fears remain over future
developments of this issue. The unusually high number of truck
traffic between Armenia and Iran further fuels suspicion on what
exactly goes down under the cloak of darkness.
Iran is not the only powerful ally of Armenia that holds knowledge
on all things nuclear. Yerevan is extremely close with Russia ever
since the breakup of the former Soviet Union, and fully relies on
Moscow when it comes to upholding its security, territorial
integrity and political autonomy. Russia is of course a member of
the elite nuclear club, and besides the US holds one of the largest
stockpiles of nuclear capabilities in the world. This is of course a
leftover of the Cold war era and fears of the Eastern or the Western
devil, depends on which side of the wall the threat was being
perceived.
It is worrying to note that some of the nuclear material that was
trying to find its way into Armenia through South Ossetia has been,
at least according to some reports, traced back to Russian nuclear
facilities. This is of course of small wonder, since Russia is an
official supplier of nuclear fuel for the only nuclear power plant
in Armenia, the Metsamor nuclear plant that supplies roughly 40 % of
electricity to the country`s population.
But the reactor itself falls into another aspect of nuclear threats
posed by Armenia, specifically nuclear safety threats. The reactor
is extremely outdated, and there are no proper safeguard and safety
mechanism installed that would ensure adequate monitoring of its
operations and recognition of potential faults in the system.
The world just marked the thirtieth anniversary of the devastating
Chernobyl accident, and it is unsettling to know there is high risk
of a similar disaster in the adjacent area. Nuclear safety, like
nuclear security, should be taken extremely seriously. Any outdated
systems, like the one at the Metsamor nuclear plant, should be
either closed down until repaired and adjusted to proper security
standards, or shut down completely if the plant is unable to follow
necessary legal provisions. To make the future prospects even
grimmer, the area where the Metsamor plant is located is being said
to have very vibrant seismic activities. Thus, not only is the plant
dangerous due to outdated security systems and technology, but also
due to naturally occurring phenomenon that is highly likely to cause
significant damage on the plant itself. Armenian officials should
protect their own population and not risk a nuclear holocaust.
Instead, they continue to stubbornly extend their self-entrapment
grand ambitions.
Reviewing the manifold danger that Armenia represent in nuclear
terms, there are no simple answers, although there are a few clear
conclusions. The Metsamor power plant should be considered as an
imminent and serious threat to millions of people in Asia, Middle
East and Europe, and shut down. Additionally, this issue should not
be shielded anymore for the sake of pure Macht politik.
Macht prefers secrecy and coercion and we already well know
how it always ends up. After Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and
Fukushima disaster, the last thing the world needs is another
nuclear catastrophe. Additionally, there are clear ambitions present
in the country to develop and acquire nuclear capabilities. For more
than one reason that is an extremely dangerous endeavor to pursue.
Not just for the region itself and adjacent countries but also for
the world which should be evolving towards the future nuclear free
world instead. Consequently, we have to do all we can to prevent yet
another blow to an already shaking NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty).
Conclusively, Caucasus is full of frozen yet unsolved, highly
polarizing, toxic and potentially inflammable conflicts. We also
have to be aware that the raging flames of instability from Syria
and Iraq are not far away. We do not need another nuclear meltdown
inferno. It is high time to localize the overheated blaze of Middle
East. It would be a good start by stabilizing Caucasus in a just,
fair and sustainable way.
Petra Posega

Petra Posega is a Security Studies candidate, with a Degree in
Political Science. She prolifically writes for platforms and
magazines on four continents (including the Canadian (Geopolitics of
Energy, the US Addleton, and Far-Eastern Journal of Asia- Europe
Relation).
Contact: posega@live.com
May 18, 2016
I FREE myself from Facebook
By Rattana Lao
BANGKOK – It was sometimes ago that the New Yorker
featured a cartoon that went something like this: “With the
internet, you can be a dog behind a computer and nobody knows.”
That's
my thought on the internet in general and social media in
particular. Behind the masks of perfectly manicured life or perfect
make up, there are multiple truth, reality, flaws and imperfection.
I joined Facebook when I was doing my Masters of Science in
Development Studies at the London School of Economics and Political
Science – far away from my hometown glory of Bangkok, Thailand.
Although I have known about Facebook from my highschool roommate
when it was only accessible for IVY League students, I was not quite
excited about it. I thought to myself “who in their right mind
published their lives to the public?”
During the same time, the One Laptop Per Child policy was popular. I
remember attending several public forums whereby tech savvy
professionals tried to convince low-tech Development experts that
the internet is powerful and through it we can end world poverty.
Something like that.
Being an outgoing and outspoken introvert, if that makes sense, I
signed up for FB with an ambivalent feeling. On the one hand, I
wanted to keep in touch with my friends and family from afar – to
let them know how I was, what I ate, where I travelled to. On the
other hand, I was scared and anxious of the unintended consequences.
Well, given that my BFF called me “the most intense meaning making
machine,” I was not sure I could cope with the outflow of comments
from strangers about my life.
As a writer, I travelled a lot and carried multiple devices:
cellphone, iPads and computers. I have several notebooks in my bag
for different thought and things. I lived in 4 cities in 10 years
for school and work: London, New York, Hong Kong and Bangkok, so FB
was my tool to store my pictures, poems and proses. I posted some on
public, mostly I kept them private. In another word, FB was my
cloud.
My posts had rarely been LIVE. I posted multiple things: narcissist
selfie, obnoxious jokes, sentimental poems and love songs. Sometimes
I rapped, some other time I put my stream of consciousness out there
as if I was meditating. A lot of time, I created a dialogue as if I
was writing an Opera or Broadway. I was thinking of Pavarotti and
Philip Grass.
You see, I am a messed: Fifty Cent x Evita, Phantom x Avenue Q.
Despite my skeptism about privacy bleached, I was also very naive
about the danger of FB. I did believe, at one point, “technology can
empower lives, internet can end poverty.” Well, if you read Jeffrey
Sachs’ The End of Poverty and Amartya’s Sen Development as Freedom
without criticality, that's what you get: go-getter, saving the
world and innocent lamb lost in the Wonderland. Or you better try
with prof. Anis Bajrektarevic, who –on the topic– offers a first
rate (post-industrial) Hegelian thought: Highly mesmerizing,
although (for the sake of magic) disguised in the Matrix movie’s
Keanu Reeves post-punk character of Neo – modern, fast, lethal,
decisive.
My nativity is best manifested through my five years experience of
art project in Thailand. Being a fresh of the boat returnee from
oversea education, I thought of putting development theories into
practice. I did think that Thailand, given its excessive interest on
“children” and “education”, everybody would be on board with me.
Together with students from around the country, we carried out 15
art projects in various parts of Thailand for different groups and
audience. We went to the most remote area of Thailand such as Loei,
Lampoon and Lopburi. We brought art supplies and created free space
for students to express themselves. Last year, we went to four
regions and asked students to paint “Happy Birthday Our Princess”
cards to wish our princess a healthy and happy life.
Some of these were funded, mostly were self-funded. All of us in the
team called “UNITE Thailand” sacrificed things that we have to
create garage sale so that we are financially independent from
donors.
It is what a degree in Development Studies at the LSE has taught me.
Since I have friends from all over the world, I was optimistic that
if I posted these beautiful Thai silk from Surin, cotton from
Lampoon and leather bags, someone out there would purchase them.
Good try. Not quite. Only one highschool friend from Nepal, Salina
Giri, bought my mother's Prada bag for 500 USD. Although it was the
only act of kindness, that meant the world to me and 300 other
children in Loei.
The ramification of “sharing my ideas” online was worst. Day after
day, I woke up and saw the quotes I put on to promote the projects
being hijacked for political, personal and private purposes.
Again, being Buddhist, forgiveness.
I had hated FB for quite sometime for that it interrupted my peace.
It allowed strangers to send me hate speech and there was a point, I
got several messages that could have put me behind bar. Not British
bars. Jail to be exact. Some people have mistood my Coco necklace
with Communism and they misunderstood my initial R with Radical.
Perhaps my political sarcasm had gone too far, perhaps my English
vocabulary has confused many. I have gone through the missteps again
and again in my head and finally I had the epiphany. It was me who
was stupid.
No one in their right mind would type Chekov “The Story of Nobody”
right after “Anna K” story – Nobody – would put “Evita” right next
to “Alicia.”
Well, I did.
If all the degrees I hold did not prevent me from self-destruction
and public humiliation, I would like to dedicate this piece to all
the children out there to“DO NOT BE LIKE ME,” who think they can
SHARE their works, who believe that FB LIKES are REAL and who wait
for INBOX from somebody to take them to the Empire State.
No one knows that behind the happy hello kitty profile picture of a
go-getter oversized cheerleader, I had just survived the worst
Asthma attack and breathing in tears, in the depth of the Thai
forest.
If Development is Freedom and if Sen was right, allow me to free
myself from the chained cruelty of Facebook. I didn't deactivate it,
I threw my phone in the river and said final goodbye.

Rattana Lao – is a lecturer at Thai Studies, Pridi Banomyong
International College, Thammasat University.
She is also the author of “A critical Studies of Thailand Higher
Education Reform:
The Culture of Borrowing,” which was published with Routledge in
2015.
Contact her under: amp.lao@gmail.com,
read her: www.amplao.com

Students grade 9 to 10 at Karnchanaburi expressed their thought
and feeling under the them “Our home”

Students grade 5 to 6 playing and having fun in the Boat House,
Karnchanaburi. The theme was “Our Home.”

Students grade 4 and 5 drew their pictures under the theme “Our
Happiness.”
May 15, 2016
India’s Education – one view on Optimisation and
Outreach
Dr.Swaleha Sindhi
Introduction
In
the present era of globalization, organizations are expected to work
with a creative rather than a reactive perspective and grow to be
flexible, responsive and capable organizations in order to survive.
In the existing scenario people are exposed to diverse knowledge
through internet, there is much to learn and more to assimilate.
Senge’s (1990) model of the five disciplines of a learning
organization emphasizes on the concept of systems thinking, personal
mastery, mental models, building shared vision and team learning.
This points on continuous learning for individuals and
organizations, with a great stress on the idea of bringing change
with innovation and creativity. If the future organizations are
driven by individual and collaborative learning, it is advisable to
transform schools also into learning organizations, instead of
school education being restricted merely to the process of acquiring
facts and loads of numerical information to reproduce in examination
using rote learning methodologies (current scenario in Indian
schools).
In line with the needs of education system in India, schools should
become more effective learning organizations that ultimately
increase the leadership capacity and support the personal
development of every individual at the institution. In chalking out
the aims of education in India, Kothari commission report (1964-66)
stressed that ‘education has to be used as powerful instrument of
social economic and political change.
The blending of conservative trend and progress is the basic
characteristics of a healthy society. In a modern society
individuals learn about intricate changes that are occurring around
them. School of course is an important agency to usher in the
changes’. However, years after these recommendations, the Indian
schools are still perceived as institutions; transferring knowledge,
fulfilling educational tasks and realizing educational objectives.
They reflect upon syllabus, and follow a set of educational
objectives framed to show them direction of activity at particular
stages of education. There is hardly any effort to bring change in
the system of education. Our education system is not governed with
new educational tasks and essential new ideas for the educational
organizations. Instead schools in their effort to become learning
organizations are already feeling the tidal wave of change in many
ways and this has resulted in confused, exhausted and disappointed
school leaders who are unable develop the capacity of the school and
every individual therein to manage change.
Indian Schools and Challenges
As educator Roland Barth has said, "Relationships among educators
within a school range from vigorously healthy to dangerously
competitive. Strengthen those relationships, and you improve
professional practice.” Indian schools fail to develop themselves
into true learning organizations due to; the existing school
culture, amount of competition and working in isolation. In our
schools there is little or no resistance against isolation and
unproductive school competitions. Teachers teach in isolation,
rarely does a teacher have the opportunity to go beyond her
classroom to visit the pedagogic worlds of her peers, to learn from
their classrooms. Improving school and community cooperation is
another important area for learning organization.
There is hardly any interaction between our schools and community.
Little efforts are seen from schools to encourage children to get an
access to learning resources in the community, to meet outstanding
members of the community or involving parents in actively organizing
extracurricular activities. One way of building connect with
community is involving community elders in developing curriculum,
but hardly our schools take suggestions from community elders on the
topics to be included in the curriculum. There are negligible
efforts to remove traditional education boundaries.
It is becoming clear that schools can be re-created, made vital, and
sustainably renewed not by fiat or command, and not by regulation,
but by taking a learning orientation. This means involving everyone
in the system in expressing their aspirations, building their
awareness, and developing their capabilities together. Senge calls
this the rudder that can keep the organization on course during
times of stress. Not to mention, stress among teachers and leaders
is a common scenario in majority of Indian schools today.
The way forward
The learning organization approach is capable of making an
organization more competitive and adaptive in response to change in
a school context. Thus, existence of teacher practices conducive to
environment of strong learning environment supported by
transformational leaders will enable schools to achieve continuous
improvement and excellence in terms of student and teacher learning.
The powerful pathway to becoming a better practitioner is to observe
an expert peer in action, to reflect and improve upon one’s own
practice as a result.
When professionals like doctors, engineers or architects can do it
then why not our teachers? Why can’t we bring teachers’ rich
‘knowledge-in-practice’ from the confines of their classrooms into
the public domain? The reason that we are unable bring this change
is because our teachers do not have the opportunity to go beyond
classrooms to visit the pedagogic worlds of their peers or learn
from their classrooms.
Neither do the schools organize regular on the job staff development
programs for teachers to promote shared vision. On the positive
side, today, majority of school teachers and Principals are finding
themselves involved in professional learning activities. School and
curriculum reforms have necessitated regular review of practices and
attitudes.
This is for the reason that schools are finding it difficult to
resist the pressures of change and improvement especially in
response to the demands of professionalism and accountability. It is
high time our schools realize that the goal of learning
organizations is not the occasional burst of professional activity
each time new demands are made of the school, curriculum or
practices. Schools and their staff need to be ahead of the change
game. Thus, the philosophy of a learning organization must be that
learning is a way of working just as it is a way of living.
Last word
The ‘learning organization’ management approach is capable of making
an organization more competitive and adaptive in response to change.
The unit of innovation in Indian schools has usually been the
individual teacher, the individual classroom, or a new curriculum to
be implemented individually by teachers. But the larger environment
in which innovation is supposed to occur is neglected. So few
innovations occur and in the meantime either the innovative teacher
is siphoned for few more bucks by other schools or a teacher who
successfully innovates becomes threatening to those around him or
her.
Thus our fundamental challenges in education involve cultural
changes that will require collective learning. By involving people
at multiple levels and thinking together about significant and
enduring solutions we can bring a positive change in the system.
However, the role of our schools as learning organization can only
be furthered when the school leadership is committed to transform
schools by getting engaged with the learning process themselves. At
the same time our teachers also must make effort to develop
themselves and be updated before they show high expectations from
students. All these constraints have apparently become a hindrance
to the transformation of schools into strong learning organizations.
Dr.Swaleha Sindhi

Dr.Swaleha Sindhi is Assistant Professor in the Department of
Educational Administration, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of
Baroda, India. Decorated educational practitioner Dr. Sindhi is a
frequent columnist on related topics, too. She is the Vice President
of Indian Ocean Comparative Education Society (IOCES). Contact:
swalehasindhi(at)gmail.com
May 12, 2016
Hungry of Hungary –
One (senti)mental journey
By Julia
Suryakusuma
Some
days ago, I achieved historical continuity between Hungary and
Indonesia — well, at least in connection to my father and me.
How so?In the early 1960s, my father was assigned to set up the
Indonesian Embassy in Budapest. Indonesia had already established
diplomatic relations with Hungary in 1955, but did not actually have
a physical embassy.
During my father’s time there as chargé
d’affaires, he met with many high-ranking officials. Among the old
photos from those times, there is one of him shaking hands with
János Kádár, Hungary’s prime minister at the time. Kádár was PM from
1956 to 1988. Thirty-two years, just like Indonesia’s Soeharto.
As dad’s daughter, I was invited to a luncheon at the State Palace
on Feb. 1 — hosted by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo naturally — in
honor of Victor Orban, the current Hungarian prime minister who was
here for an official visit. I had my photo taken with him.
Cut-to-cut: in 1962 my dad with the then Hungarian PM, in 2016, me
with the current Hungarian PM.
While 54 years have lapsed,
my fond memories of Hungary have not. My father passed away in 2006,
so unfortunately he could not witness the historical continuity his
daughter created, albeit only as a snapshot (pun unintended!).
Read more on the next page:.........
April 26, 2016
450 Years of Jewish Life in Sarajevo
By
Mads Jacobsen
In this week's long
read, Mads Jacobsen explores the Jewish experience in
Bosnia-Herzegovina through the eyes of Sarajevo-born Rabbi Eliezer Papo.
The Ashkenazi Synagogue in Sarajevo (Foto: Mads H. Jacobsen)
“If you imagine Bosnia to be a piece of somun,
that piece of bread you eat during Ramadan, you
cannot say that Jews are the water of that
somun, nor can you say that they are the flour,
but you can certainly say that they are the
black seeds on the top of it. Now, could a somun
survive without it? Yes. Would it still be the
same somun? Certainly not. Jews are currently a
small percentage of the Bosnian population, but
they are an important part of the urban
population, and they have contributed a great
deal to the country. So, could Bosnia do it
without Jews? Yes. Would it still be the same
Bosnia? Certainly not”, explained Rabbi Eliezer
Papo in an interview with the Post-Conflict
Research Center.
This year, the Jewish community in Sarajevo
celebrated its 450th anniversary by hosting an
international conference in the Ashkenazi
Synagogue dedicated to folklore, linguistics,
history and the relationship between the Jewish
community and other communities. Following this
anniversary, Mads Hoeygaard Jacobsen – an intern
at the Post-Conflict Research Center – had the
chance to interview Sarajevo-born Rabbi Eliezer
Papo to talk about the Jewish experience in
Bosnia-Herzegovina during the different epochs
of the country’s history.
These mixed marriages proved important in
Sarajevo during the Bosnian War from 1992 to
1995, since the Jewish community of around 2,000
people8 was the only one equally
related to the three combating groups.
Read more on the next
page:.........
Mads Jacobsen
Mads is an intern at PCRC. Mads Jacobsen is from Denmark and is currently
pursuing his Master's degree in 'Development and International Relations' at
Aalborg University...
April 24, 2016
Is Caucasus the next Syria - Don’t forget OSCE
By Aleksandra Krstic
The
recent all-shoot out in Azerbaijan between the ethnic Armenians and
Azerbaijani forces brought yet another round of casualties,
psychological traumas and property destructions. Sudden and severe
as it was, the event sent its shock waves all over Caucasus and well
beyond. Is Caucasus receiving the ‘residual heat’ from the boiling
MENA? Is this a next Syria? Is a grand accommodation pacific
scenario possible? Or will it be more realistic that the South
Caucasus ends up violently torn apart by the grand compensation that
affects all from Afghanistan up to the EU-Turkey deal?
Most observes would fully agree that for such
(frozen) conflicts like this between Azerbaijan and Armenia,
mediation and dialogue across the conflict cycle have no
alternative. Further on, most would agree that the OSCE
(Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) with its Minsk
Group remains both the best suited FORA as well as the only
international body mandated for the resolution of the conflict.
However, one cannot escape the feeling that despite
more than 20 years of negotiations, this conflict remains
unresolved. What is the extent of the OSCE failure to effectively
utilize existing conflict resolution and post-conflict
rehabilitation tools?
The very mandate of the Co-Chairmen of the OSCE Minsk
Group is based on CSCE Budapest Summit document of 1994, which tasks
them to conduct speedy negotiations for the conclusion of a
political agreement on the cessation of the armed conflict, the
implementation of which will eliminate major consequences of the
conflict and permit the convening of the Minsk Conference. In
Budapest, the participating States have reconfirmed their commitment
to the relevant Resolutions of the United Nations Security Council
and underlined that the co-Chairmen should be guided in all their
negotiating efforts by the OSCE principles and agreed mandate, and
should be accountable to its Chairmanship and the Permanent Council
(PC).
Read more on the next
page:.........
Aleksandra Krstic , studied in
Belgrade (Political Science) and in Moscow (Plekhanov’s IBS).
Currently, a post-doctoral researcher at the Kent University in
Brussels (Intl. Relations). Specialist for the MENA-Balkans frozen
and controlled conflicts.
Contact:
alex-alex@gmail.com
April
20, 2016
PRIVACY I(N)T CONTEXT
doc. dr. Jasna Cosabic
The
right to privacy, or the right to respect for private life, as the
European Convention on Human Rights guarantees it, has been affected
by the IT growth era. Privacy has long been protected, but will face
a new dimension of protection for the generations to come. The right
to respect for private life is not an absolute one, and may have a
different feature in different context.
By Niemitz v. Germany judgment (1992) the European Court on Human
Rights ('the ECtHR') included the right to connect with other
individuals into the notion of private life, saying that it would be
too restrictive to limit the notion of an 'inner circle' to personal
life and exclude therefrom entirely the outside world not
encompassed within that circle. The right to communicate was thus
inscerted into the the privacy context.
But the extent of communication and technologies which enable it
signifficantly changed since.
Few decades ago, it mainly consisted of personal communication,
communication by conventional letters and phone communication. At
the time the Convention was adopted in the mid last century, there
was no internet, not even mobile/cell phones, nor personal
computers. The feature of privacy protection was much more simple
then today.
Now, when we approach the rule of IoT (internet of things)
communication, not only do people communicate, but 'things' as well.
The subject of that 'non-human' communication may also be private
data of individuals. At the same time, the individual, human
communication became more simple, available at any time, and
versatile by its means.
Read more on the next
page:.........
doc. dr. Jasna Čošabić
professor of IT law and EU law at Banja Luka College,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
jasnacosabic@live.com
April 18, 2016
Saudi – Iranian future: 3 games – 3 scenarios
By Manal Saadi
There
is no need to argue on Saudi Arabia and Iran as the two biggest
regional powers in the Gulf, the rising tension between the two
countries who are engaged in proxy wars in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and
somehow Bahrein had installed a climate of Cold War.2.
How did we get there?
Saudi Arabia existed since 1932 as a Sunni country and the
birthplace of Islam. Its history of creation is so unique,
mesmerizing and fascinating.
Iran, has a glorious past, with various empires that conquered the
Arab-Islamic world at certain pe-riod of time.
While the Shah was in power, Iran’s relations with the Arab Gulf
States were normalized, Iran’s navy used to act as the policeman of
the gulf. The situation has changed when the Iranian Islamic
revolution occurred in 1979, with consequences on both countries and
on their relationships. Iran’s Ayatollah wanted to export their
respective model and undermine Saudi Arabia that Iranian officials
see as corrupt and unworthy due to its relation with the United
States and the West. The Shia country is also supporting Shia
communities in the Gulf which is seen as a direct threat to Saudi
Arabia.
Read more on the next
page:.........
Manal Saadi, of Saudi-Moroccan origins, is a postgraduate
researcher in International Relations and Diplomacy at the
Geneva-based UMEF University.
She was attached to the Permanent Mission of Morocco to the UNoG and
other Geneva-based IOs, as well as to the Permanent Mission of the
GCC to the UN in Geneva.
April 4, 2016
Near East and the
Nearer Brussles Euro(h)ope possible ?
Anis H. Bajrektarevic
There
is a claim constantly circulating the EU: ‘multiculturalism is
dead in Europe’. Dead or maybe d(r)ead?... That much comes from
a cluster of European nation-states that love to romanticize – in a
grand metanarrative of dogmatic universalism – their
appearance as of the coherent Union, as if they themselves lived a
long, cordial and credible history of multicul-turalism. Hence, this
claim and its resonating debate is of course false. It is also
cynical because it is purposely deceiving. No wonder, as the
conglomerate of nation-states/EU has silently handed over one of its
most important debates – that of European anti-fascistic identity,
or otherness – to the wing-parties. This was repeatedly followed by
the selective and contra-productive foreign policy actions of the
Union over the last two decades.
Twin Paris shootings and this fresh Brussels horror,
terrible beyond comprehension, will reload and overheat those
debates. However, these debates are ill conceived, resting from the
start on completely wrong and misleading premises. Terrorism,
terror, terrorism!! – But, terror is a tactics, not an ideology.
How can one conduct and win war on tactics? – it is an oxymoron. (In
that case, only to win are larger budgets for the homeland security
apparatus on expenses of our freedoms and liberties, like so many
times before.)
Read more on the next
page:.........
Anis H. Bajrektarevic,
contact:
anis@bajrektarevic.eu
Author is chairperson and professor in
international law and global political studies, Vienna, Austria. He
authored three books: FB – Geopolitics of Technology
(published by the New York’s Addleton
Academic Publishers); Geopolitics –
Europe 100 years later
(DB, Europe), and the just released Geopolitics – Energy – Technology
by the German publisher LAP. No
Asian century
is his forthcoming book, scheduled for later this year.
24 MAR 2016
Poles Saving Jews in
Bangkok: History Lesson for Humanity
by Rattana Lao
BANGKOK – Polish,
Israeli and Thai diplomats, academics and students gathered together
to listen and learn about the courage of Polish people saving the
Jews during the Second World War.
Chulalongkorn
University hosted “The Good Samaritans of Markowa” exhibition to
honor the innocent and brave Polish families in Markowa who risked
their lives saving the Jews from Nazi extermination. The event took
place in Bangkok to celebrate the 40th year of lasting
friendship between Poland and Thailand.
During the course of World War II, more than 50,000 Jews were saved
by Polish people. Each Jewish survivor needed to change their
shelter at least 7 times and required as many as 10 people to be
involved in the process.
Irena Sandler, a Polish nurse, was one of the brave Poles who saved
at least 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto. At the end of the
War, 6,600 Polish people were awarded with the Israeli Righteous
Amongst the Nation. However, not every brave Pole survived
Nazi capture. Approximately, 1,000 to 2,000 Poles were executed as
punishment to save the Jews.
The brutality of War took away more than 6 millions Jewish lives and
has inflicted deep wounds to those who have survived. The Ulma
Family Museum of Poles Saving Jews in World War II in Markowa is one
of the Museums established to offer a place of solace and for those
who are left behind to come to term with this atrocity.
Understanding the complexity of the Holocaust has far reaching
ramification not only to those directly affected, but also to
students and public who live world apart and far removed from it.

Why?
Read more on the next
page:.........
The first step for Thai students is to get the facts right.
Hitler is not a Hero and the Nazi is not a symbol of democracy.
24.03.2016
Bosnia and the first
circle of hell
Gerald Knaus
In the first half of the 1990s, Bosnians found themselves in the
deepest circles of hell, in a world of war, genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Following the Dayton Peace Agreement in 1995 Bosnians were able to escape war,
but have since remained trapped in a different European underworld: isolated,
looked down upon, seen as hopeless and treated as such.
In Inferno, the first book of his Divine Comedy, Dante describes his journey
through nine circles of hell. The Bosnian predicament brings to mind the first
circle of Dante's inferno, Limbo, which hosts "virtuous pagans struck with grief
from a lack of God's presence." Pagans had the misfortune to be born at the
wrong time and in the wrong place. They might be good people but, unbaptized,
they could not enter purgatory. Paradise is forever closed, not because of their
deeds, but because of who they are. It is time for Bosnia to be allowed to
escape from Limbo. A new ESI report sets out how:
ESCAPING THE FIRST CIRCLE OF HELL
or
The secret behind Bosnian reforms
One popular idea about Bosnia and Herzegovina among European
observers is that Newton's first law of motion applies to its politics: this law
says that an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside
force. For Bosnian politics, that outside force has to be the international
community.
Read more on the next
page:.........
24.03.2016
PUBLICATIONS: 2016
MUSEUM 'INVISIBLE' GENERATION - Writes: Dzalila
Osmanovic-Muharemagic
Suicidal Nuclear Gambit on Caucasus - Petra Posega
I
FREE myself from Facebook - By Rattana Lao
India’s Education – one view on Optimisation and Outreach -
Dr.Swaleha Sindhi
Hungry of Hungary – One (senti)mental journey - By Julia
Suryakusuma
450
Years of Jewish Life in Sarajevo - By Mads Jacobsen
PRIVACY I(N)T CONTEXT - doc. dr. Jasna Cosabic
Saudi
– Iranian future: 3 games – 3 scenarios - By Manal Saadi
Near East and the Nearer Brussles Euro(h)ope possible? - Anis H.
Bajrektarevic
Poles
Saving Jews in Bangkok: History Lesson for Humanity - by Rattana
Lao
Bosnia and the first circle of hell - Gerald Knaus
Mongolia and the New Russian Oil Diplomacy - By Samantha
Brletich
Noah, Peter Pan and the Sleeping Beauty (Europe – Identity
Imagined) - Anis H. Bajrektarevic
Key to Stop Refugee Flows: Unique higher education programme for
Conflict zones - Prof. Dr. DJAWED SANGDEL
Quantum Islam: Towards a new worldview - Murray Hunter and Azly
Rahman
Currency dictatorship – the struggle to end it - by Rakesh
Krishan Simha
Creative Economy and the bases of UNCTAD’s Creative Economy
Programme as instrument for growth and development - by
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Editor - Geopolitics, History, International Relations (GHIR) Addleton Academic
Publishers - New YorK
Senior Advisory board member, geopolitics of energy Canadian energy research
institute - ceri, Ottawa/Calgary
Advisory Board Chairman Modern Diplomacy & the md Tomorrow's people platform
originator
Head of mission and department head - strategic studies on Asia
Professor and Chairperson Intl. law & global pol. studies

Critical Similarities and Differences in SS of Asia and Europe - Prof.
Anis H. Bajrektarevic

MENA Saga and Lady Gaga - (Same dilemma from the MENA) - Anis H. Bajrektarevic

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HE ONGOING PUBLIC DEBT CRISIS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: IMPACTS ON AND LESSONS
FOR VIETNAM - Dr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, Assos. Prof.[1] Nguyen Linh[2]


Carla BAUMER
Climate
Change and Re Insurance: The Human Security Issue SC-SEA Prof. Anis
Bajrektarevic & Carla Baumer

Igor Dirgantara
(Researcher and Lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Politics,
University of Jayabaya)


Peny Sotiropoulou
Is
the ‘crisis of secularism’ in Western Europe the result of multiculturalism?


Dr. Emanuel L. Paparella
A Modest “Australian” Proposal to Resolve our Geo-Political Problems
Were the Crusades Justified? A Revisiting - Dr. Emanuel L. Paparella


Alisa
Fazleeva earned an MA in International Relations from the University of East
Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom in 2013. Her research interests include
foreign policy decision-making, realism and constructivism, and social
psychology and constructivism.


Corinna Metz
is an independent researcher specialized in International Politics and Peace
& Conflict Studies with a regional focus on the Balkans and the Middle East.

Patricia Galves
Derolle
Founder of Internacionalista
Săo Paulo, Brazil
Brazil – New Age


Dimitra Karantzeni
The
political character of Social Media: How do Greek Internet users perceive and
use social networks?


Michael Akerib
Vice-Rector
SWISS UMEF UNIVERSITY


Petra Posega
is a master`s degree student on the University for Criminal justice and Security
in Ljubljana. She obtained her bachelor`s degree in Political Science- Defense
studies.
Contact:
posegap@live.com


Samantha Brletich, George Mason University School of Policy, Government, and
Intl. Relations She focuses on Russia and Central Asia. Ms. Brletich is an
employee of the US Department of Defense.

Interview on HRT-Radio
Prof. dr. Anis Bajrektarević


Dr Filippo ROMEO,


Julia Suryakusuma
is the outspoken Indonesian thinker,
social-cause fighter and trendsetter. She is the author of Julia’s Jihad.
Contact:
jsuryakusuma@gmail.com




Mads Jacobsen
Mads is an intern at PCRC. Mads Jacobsen is from Denmark and is currently
pursuing his Master's degree in 'Development and International Relations' at
Aalborg University...


Dzalila Osmanovic-Muharemagic
University of Bihac, Faculty of Education,
Department of English Language and Literature - undergraduate
University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philology, Department of English Language
and Literature - graduate study

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