Mirovni inštitut, Inštitut za sodobne družbene in politične študije
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Lev Kreft, Director
Peace Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies
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Background
After its inception, the Institute began to research post-socialist political and social condition in Slovenia. The projects dating from the establishing period were The Sociology of the Army (1991–1993) and two action research studies – Yugoslavia-War (1991–1992) and The Demilitarisation of the Island of Vis (1991–1992). Its activities also included a number of conferences and seminars, and a newspaper in English called The Intruder (1991–1992), which was published by the Movement for the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence.
In 1994 and 1995 the Institute’s field of interest was extended to embrace a wider range of contemporary social and political studies. Among the topics added to its agenda were racism and political conflicts, gender studies, cultural studies and political and social practice. Since that time the Institute has endeavoured to integrate academic work with concrete social and political engagement, leading to a number of action research studies and projects.
In addition to the topics mentioned above, it has also begun to concentrate on political extremism, democratisation and equal opportunity politics in Central and Eastern Europe; independent women's and feminist movements in Slovenia; and issues of sexual abuse, refugees, civil service in place of military service, cultural industry and the like.
New beginnings
Towards the end of 2000 three additional programs formerly conducted by the Open Society Institute, Slovenia were transferred to the Peace Institute: Media, Civil Society and East East Co-operation. Currently the Institute consists of five thematic fields: Human Rights, Cultural Policy, Media Gender, Politics, and two research centres: Centre for Media Policy and Centre for Cultural Policy Research.
With the inclusion of these programs, its area of work was further extended to the fields of human rights, media studies and topics related to the EU and the Stability Pact. Today it continues to devote close attention to marginalised social and political issues that are usually ignored by mainstream institutions. In 2010, the Institute published a research monograph The Scars of the Erasure about the erased people in Slovenia.
Side projects
In 1998, the Institute's Centre for Media Policy launched Media Watch Magazine, a biannual publication covering the analysis of media reports. In the same year, the on-going educational project Workers' Punk University was established: in 2011, the year of Institute's 20th anniversary, the central topic of the university academic year is Class Struggle after Class Struggle.
International cooperation
The East-East Partnership Beyond Borders Program promotes co-operation between the countries of Eastern and Central Europe, EU member states, and also worldwide cooperation. In association with the Peace Institute, as one of the centres in the media research in Slovenia, the Media Watch magazine serves as a platform for the networks as South East European Network for Professionalisation of the Media (SEENPM), and the Soros foundation OSI Network.
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