Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2002
Abstract
On a cool sunny afternoon in February 2002, accompanied by my wife and an interpreter-guide, I drove south from Budapest toward the southern town of Szeged and the border with Serbia just beyond. While driving, I pondered what I would see and discover in Vojvodina, the former autonomous and still northern province of Serbia, and the place I had chosen to do fieldwork for my ethnographic research project. My research purpose was to study multiethnic cooperation within the context of Vojvodina autonomy in order to understand the circumstances of how and why such collaborative relationships between different ethnic groups work. Because of my experiences with ethnic Hungarians living as minorities outside the borders of Hungary and their continuing struggle to secure fundamental human rights, I feel strongly that understanding such collaboration may provide insight into how nonviolent solution can potentially be achieved with respect to the ethnic discrimination and minority human rights violations that too often occur. My research methodology included the conduct of phenomological interviews of representatives of the various ethnic groups across a spectrum of intellectual as well as political leaders. My intended audience will include political scientists, government leaders and involved citizens who have an interest in non- violent solution for multiethnic populations of emerging democracies. Based on my years of knowledge and business experience from living and working in Central Europe I intend to bring an expanded perspective to the issue.
Keywords
democracy--Serbia
Rights
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Recommended Citation
Lauer, John N., "Vojvodina, Serbia: Cornerstone of Democratization and Multi-ethnic Collaboration" (2002). Student Scholarship. 520.
https://commons.case.edu/studentworks/520