Ethnic Distance in Montenegro
Publisher: Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CEDEM), Montenegro
Date: December 2013
Volume: 20 pages, pdf
Description
Understandably, after nearly 25 years of transition and turbulent developments in the political landscape of entire former Yugoslavia, including Montenegro, and considering the traces of the recent, but also distant past, the question of stability of a multinational society became largely dependent on inter-ethnic relations. One of the tasks of empirical social science is to use scientific instruments to monitor the relations between ethnic communities. That was exactly the aim of our research. The research is aimed at determining the level of inter-ethnic distancing in Montenegro, through proven, valid and verified measurement tools. Back in 2004 CEDEM conducted the first study of this kind, followed by the second one after the referendum - in 2007. As far as it is known, these have been the only studies on ethnic distance in Montenegro, carried out in the period after the break-up of Yugoslavia. Thus, this study is useful in the sense that it leaves significant traces for the future which can show, from the point of view of long-term trends, to what extent have citizens become ethnically distanced in relation to one another in this historical period.