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dialogue: another clash?
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ambitious multilateral project of cooperation the region
had ever known, ultimately aimed at creating a shared
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of course been positive developments. Among them,
the most important is probably the awakening of the
civil society in the last years and its renewed capacity
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powerful and exciting reality. As a matter of fact, there
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Address to european leadership conference – focuses on balkans
1. Highly appreciated and distinguished participants to:
European Leadership Conference – Focuses on Balkans
Tirana InternationalHotel,Tirana,Albania,21. – 22. November2015
Honored speakers:
Dr. Todor MIRKOVIĆ
Senior Advisor, European Center for Peace and Development, Serbia
Mr. Theodosios GEORGIOU
Founder and Chairman, Greek Association for Atlantic & European Cooperation (GAAEC),
Greece
Prof. Dr. Arben MALAJ
Former Minister of Finance and Economy; Chairman, UPF National Peace Council, Albania
Hon. Mićo ORLANDIĆ
Member of Parliament, Montenegro
Prof. Anis BAJRAKTAREVIĆ
Chairman, International Law and Global Political Studies, IMC University, Austria
It is with no small amount of discreetness that I take my place as a moderator, and face
this learned audience.
To us, Peace Loving citizens, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, as
well as from the books, of World scholars, is very familiar.
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
The inverse tendency, of talking whilst the Europeans listen, we have not yet acquired, mainly
by deed, as we travelled far away the timely distant past of good neighborhood and
development in peace; and in him who first makes the endeavor it begets a certain sense of
due apology for so presumptuous an act.
I am convinced it will remain the same until, We the people from Balkans will accept each other
truly for what we are and learn how to live for the sake of each other.
As regards the manner in which I shall have to administer this agency, I am neither a security
specialist, nor a scholar learned in the history of Balkan Wars, nor an anthropologist.
Peacemaking and Development is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed.
To the peace-making person the religious, ethnic and ideological inclinations of man must be at
least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution of individual
realm.
By the other side, Institutional and Environmental contexts compose a strong part in our
collective behavior and orientation.
2. So many times, extremely inherent influence came from power centers far away from our
countries. We, all, paid a heavy toll to a dark and ugly political paradigm started in the 19th
century and extended to the Balkans by means of general violence and bloodshed, ideologically
promoted through ethnic and religious supremacy. All around one can find some insistence to
continue in that path. We stand firmly against it!
Albanians suffered the longest in that trans-ethnical, religiously conditioned, reformatting of
Balkan People and Lands in newly established States unrightfully considered and legitimated
nation-states!
The question, What are the ideological, religious and ethnic propensities? and the question,
What is their philosophic significance influencing the development of the Institutional
Framework? are two significant questions from the peacemaking point of view; and, as a failure
to recognize this fact accordingly may breed confusion, I wish to insist upon the point a little
before we enter into the discussions.
In the matter of religions, it is particularly easy to distinguish the order of question. Every
religious phenomenon has its history and its derivation from natural antecedents. A definition
has been broadly accepted: True believers go beyond the boundaries of their own
religion/nation!
In the matter of ethnicity, one finds a lot more intrinsic influences derived from a root condition
of ethical principles and LANGUAGE.
These are strikingly questions of historical fact, and one has to see how the answer to them can
decide offhand the still further question: how it could serve to us as a guide to life in peace and
development in cooperation. That coziness of neglecting historical facts, without trying to
understand some substantial lessons, resulted in a potential capacitor for future human
tragedies.
To find a working answer to the question we must apply some sort of a universal principle of
peace and development, broadly accepted, making it a proxy for Balkan Integration.
Armed violence and insecurity have had a destructive impact on our countries development,
resulting in long standing grievances among ethnic/religious communities that last for
generations, because of the loss of dear ones from families all around the Balkans. Sexual
violence, crime, homicide and torture encouraged chaos, just blind hatred and war profiting.
Smuggling, trafficking and corruption erupted! Bad governance followed. Bad governance
based on material endless greed, without judging of means, just greed! Environmental
protection and preservation went out of order.
It triggered poverty, displacement, unemployment, associated by deep resentment that steals
the joy of living from everyone!
We witnessed the proposed failure prompting and havoc causing “Zero Level Economy” and
“Democracy through Devolution” models’ experimental application.
3. Later on, we have seen individuals, from the Balkan conflict times; export their paramilitary
services in Ukraine and Middle East!
It induced brain drain and brought human and institutional capacities to decrease as WB warns
us. Idiocracy became lucrative!
There are singers (Bayaga i Konstruktori/SRB – Ovo je Balkan) who remind us that in Balkans,
every 50 years on, a war starts, or state ministers who like to play “Indians and Cowboys”(The
Minister of Interiors of FYROM) in Balkan version.
We have to go to the root of it! We have to eradicate it!
It is not an easy task due to the happenings from recent decades. It is not a task for Albanians,
Bosnians, Croatians, Greeks, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Serbians alone; it is a major task
for all of us working together to distinguish and apply the same principles of behavior toward
the other.
Reciprocity will make it instrumental!
World leaders, gathered on 25 September 2015, at the United Nations in New York adopted the
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
It sounds like a providential call, without the direct manifestation of the providence itself.
We have been nurtured with the idea that each of our nations is a historic nation competing for
supremacy. In time, each of Balkan nations hailed its own period of glory and myth, evoking an
idyllic past, not so true, and now we face the question: Are we going to remain only strongly
historic, or are we going to become providential? All of us, together!
The road to development goes from FEAR to FAITH.
That faith needs to become the security trust, beyond the borders, security for all the
generations.
We should consider character education a pillar for the incoming peace and justice we long
for.
Let us find how to consider those borders as ours in common, the freedom as ours in common,
the wellbeing of people as ours in common!
We have a saying in Albanian: “The brave kills, the noble forgives the repented ones”.
May God assist us to bring good harvest to this conference for the sake of generations to come!