News
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After the “Summer Of Migration”: Right-Wing Populism, Media and Affects
The invitation for participation in international conference and call for papers.
Workers’ Struggles in Post-Socialist Slovenia: Between Trade Union Strategies and Worker Stratification in the Workplace
Maja Breznik and Boris Mance have published the article about workers' struggles in post-socialist Slovenia in Open Edition Journals, Balkanologie: revue d'études pluridisciplinaires.
Democracies Suffer Hit Across the EU in Year of COVID Pandemic: Press Release
New report involving 14 national members across the EU of the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties).
Slovenia: ‘The government has taken advantage of the pandemic to restrict protest’
CIVICUS speaks about the recent right-wing shift in Slovenia with Brankica Petković, a researcher and project manager at the Peace Institute in Ljubljana.
‘Status Revoked: Slovenia’s ‘Erased’ Recall Long Struggle for Justice’
Vlasta Jalušič on the erasure for Balkan Transitional Justice.
A paradigm shift framed by a crisis: recent debates on immigration and integration in six EU countries
The article examines recent public debates on migration and integration in Austria, Denmark, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and the UK.
Projects
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Populist Backlash, Democratic Backsliding, and the Crisis of the Rule of Law in European Union
The project aims to inform strategies to increase democratic resilience by studying the mechanisms “exclusionary populists” use to increase their power by undermining the Rule of Law.
Statelessness Index
Statelessness Index will primarily serve as an advocacy tool for members of the European Network on Statelessness, wider civil society, government, researchers, and media.
Equality and human rights in times of global governance
The research programme addresses the position of the concepts of human rights, equality, diversity and non-discrimination that found themselves at a historical crossroads.
The Break in Tradition: Hannah Arendt and Conceptual Change
This project uses Hannah Arendt’s thesis of the “break of tradition” and the consequences of this break for political theory.
BEHAVE – SEE Beyond Hate: Learning and Acting to Counter Hate Speech Online in South East Europe
The project aims at mutual learning on countering hate speech online and at responding to hate narratives in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, countries on the Balkan migration route.
Migrant Children and Communities in a Transforming Europe (MICREATE)
The overall objective of the project is to stimulate inclusion of diverse groups of migrant children by adopting child-centered approach to migrant children integration on educational and policy level.
Publications
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Dimensions of Care Work
The book 'Dimensions of Care Work' reflects on the concept of care, its social conditions and consequences in an integral and complex manner.
Populism and the Web: Communicative Practices of Parties and Movements in Europe
New book about the role of the Web for right-wing populist political parties and movements across Europe edited by Mojca Pajnik and Birgit Sauer (Routledge).
Razor-Wired. Reflections on Migrant Movements through Slovenia in 2015
The goal is to present facts, explain changes in state policies and procedures used to “process” the refugees, and to analyse state, media and the general public’s responses.
Feminism and Islam. Turkish Women between the Orient and the West
The author presents the critical views of women themselves, thereby unveiling the critical potential of plural life in Turkey.
Imagination Castrated: Critical Rethinking of the Civil Society (Organisation) in Contemporary Society
The publication brings together texts – the products of the debate on the civil society condition today.
War and Peace. Reflections of the Last Twenty Years
The critical views on the functioning of the Institute, questions of war and peace in the former Yugoslavia and contemporary problems intermingling of peace and war.