INNOVATIVE GOVERNANCE: EXPLORING DIMENSIONS OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT, POLICY, AND ADMINISTRATION ACROSS DIVERSE SECTORS, 2024
Abstract: In today's hyper fast world, technology plays a crucial role in our daily lives and ope... more Abstract: In today's hyper fast world, technology plays a crucial role in our daily lives and operations; it changes and improves our way of thinking, interaction, and communication with the other, social groups and public institutions. Consequently, integrating technology into the public sector and administration is unavoidable. Technology not only enhances efficiency but also contributes to environmental conservation by reducing the need for excessive document printing. By developing effective online platforms, services can be accessed directly, saving both time and resources. Examining this through Emile Durkheim's functionalist theory, we can explore how technology integration improves service systems. A notable example is the online service platform ‘eKosova’, which offers a range of services including civil status document issuance, municipal complaint management, information on grants and subsidies, and online bill
payments. To assess the impact of technology integration on service efficiency, we will employ a mixed- methods approach. This will include a literature review as a secondary source and a primary survey to gauge citizen attitudes towards this platform. The survey will focus on whether the platform has simplified citizens' lives and reduced the time required for essential document processing.
Today’s modern society is in a deep multidimensional crisis or upheaval, social, political,
cultu... more Today’s modern society is in a deep multidimensional crisis or upheaval, social, political, cultural and economic disruption. The pandemic or Covid-19 we faced some years ago (2019-2021) caused physical and psychological turbulencies thrughout the world. In crisological periods, religion plays the role of ‘rescue ship’, it preserves the hope and mental wellbeing. Thus, there is a fair correlation between the increase in the size of the crisis and the strengthening of spirtuality or religiosity, increase of religious ceremonies. The more powerful the crisis is, the more the figure of the homo religiosus (religious man) appears on the scene. Health and religion are intertwined. Major stressors makes some people more religious. (Leonhard et. al, 2023) In times of fear for health, survival and the future even atheists, nonbelievers change their worldview, their conception of life, of “truth here and there.” Especially at a context when even the most advanced medicine, the most sophisticated, is powerless in coping with a “inivisble actor”, a virus that shaked humanity, that has plagued and closed us planetarily. Gallup’s survey (March 28 and April 1, 2020), reveals that mental, dietary and exercise life has deteriorated, while religious life has advanced to 19% of interviewee, a picture which Newport (2020) interprets as a religious resurgence or revivification. He also mentions the ascending curve of religious indivudals and structures that perform constructive and charitable tasks. According to Bentzen the term prayer in Google increased sharply (in 95 coutries) during March 2020 when Covid 19 was top theme globally. (Catholic Herald, 2020). This paper based on empirical data and interview (32 ethnic Albanian intellectuals from North Macedonia) aims to build an original research on this very sensistive issue of beginning of the third millenium, treating global and local aspects. Findigs from our field research show an more vivid religiosity in Covid-19 times: more than 2/3 (68.9 %) of respondents feel themselves more religious in the period of Covid-19 and the most frequent terms in interviews are ‘belief ’ and ‘God’.
Batı'nın İslam konusunda en çok tanınmış bilim adamlarından birisi olan William Montgomery Wa... more Batı'nın İslam konusunda en çok tanınmış bilim adamlarından birisi olan William Montgomery Watt, İslami öğretilerin doğuşunu, tarihini ve sosyal yansımalarını mihrak alan bir çalışma ortaya çıkarmak için tarih, ilahiyat, siyaset ve sosyoloji gibi disiplinleri bir arada toplayarak kullanmaktadır. Watt, Batı biliminde İslamı sevimli ve objektif bir renkte tasvir etme konusunda önemli bir ilerleme kaydeden ender müsteşriklerdendir. Watt dünyanın büyük dinlerinden birisi olan İslam'ın tarihini, sosyal felsefesini incelerken ve sosyolojisini yaparken önemli bir iş yapmıştır. Kendisi aynı zamanda bugünkü İslam ülkelerindeki dinî inanç ile siyasal öğretiler arasındaki sıkı ilişkiler üzerine de durmaktadır. Onun eserleri, Hz. Muhammed ve onun halefleri tarafından kurulmuş siyasî-dinî yapıdan, bugünkü çağdaş dünyadaki durumuna kadar İslam'ın siyasî boyutunun açık ve geniş bir mütalaasını temsil etmektedir. Onun çalışmaları politik, sosyoloji ve İslami ilimlerle uğraşanlar için te...
This paper deals with one of the most prominent Turkish poets of the last century, Mehmet Akif Er... more This paper deals with one of the most prominent Turkish poets of the last century, Mehmet Akif Ersoy whose worldwide sociological dimension is appreciable. It is a micro social hermeneutic on the Akif's societal engineering based on Islamic tradition and its value system, opposite to racial-nationalism, caesarism and despotism, the social deviations of his Zeit as alienation, atheism, defeatism etc. Akif, through his poetical discourse, tried to save and affirm the spirit of solidarity and of the universal Islamic community (ummah), to affirm the idea of authentic identity based on spirituality, morality, patriotism and knowledge. In sum, this article is a synopsis of Ersoy's poetic vision, functionalist social philosophy, constructivist ethical-cultural approach and pro-active lifestyle that emanates in his magnum opus Safahat.
This paper is an analytical synopsis of Ahmet Davutoglu’s pro-civilizational activism, an essay o... more This paper is an analytical synopsis of Ahmet Davutoglu’s pro-civilizational activism, an essay on this globally recognized diplomat and expert in the field of international relations, history of political thought and political philosophy. Davutoglu is an author of the strategic doctrine of new Turkey as global actor with neo-Ottomanist Geist. It shows his multidimensional approach to civilizations and their world views (Weltanschauung), to their truth perceptions and cultural other/otherness, as well as his diplomatic discourse that generates security, peace and democracy that made him one of the main initiators of the Alliance of Civilizations in an era of Huntingtonian macro-conflictualism as new global disorder. This article focuses on non-rational differentiation in the West and the rest in the era of post-modern “international sprint”, when the world is transformed into a global village and when the only solution is in finding common values, a social philosophy that ties diffe...
«МЕЃУНАРОДЕН ДИЈАЛОГ: ИСТОК - ЗАПАД» (ПРАВО И ПОЛИТИКОЛОГИЈА), 2016
Interculturalism refers to support for cross-cultural dialogue and challenging self-segregation ... more Interculturalism refers to support for cross-cultural dialogue and challenging self-segregation tendencies within cultures. In the last few decades, interculturalism or multiculturalism, in Western countries, and in Macedonia since 2001 Ohrid Framework Agreement, has been frequently used in theoretical and public debates in the field of cultural policies in terms of whether there should be a stratification of cultures (dominant and secondary) or cultural relativism (every culture is important and deserves equal treatment). This study, which comprises of a descriptive-analytical and empirical-quantitative part, aims at producing an objective overview of the perceptions of citizens of Kumanovo in relation to pluralistic identities in this town, to the relations with the others, the otherness, communication, mutual trust, socio-economic conditions, the impact of indicators such as the media, politicians, education, family, etc., upon the ethnical cohabitation-frustration
In the literature of urban sociology slum is defined as a heavily populated urban area characteri... more In the literature of urban sociology slum is defined as a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing, as a squalid section of a city, characterized by inferior living conditions and usually by overcrowding, usually a densely populated urban area marked by dirty rundown housing, poverty, and social disorganization. This description is in total accordance with the reality of Skopje’s non-urbanised or shanty neighborhoods, Gazi Baba (Chair Municipality) one of the capital’s lifespaces where people live in very low life conditions, where the urban planning and quality of life are only imaginary syntagms. Substandard housing and unsanitary conditions are the differentia speciffica of Gazi Baba, an urban zone mainly populated by ethnical Albanians. In this paper, by using different methods, we will try to focus on the status and perspectives of real urbanization of this non-urbanized urban geography. Qualitative and quantitative data will be used to make proper anal...
RULE OF LAW, GOVERNANCE AND SOCIETY IN THE WESTERN BALKANS Contributions to the Future of Europe, 2022
Nationalism means the consciousness of community of the people of a country, the sense of common ... more Nationalism means the consciousness of community of the people of a country, the sense of common being, interest and ideal of the nation. As a concept that gained importance especially in the twentieth century, nationalism means the ideology of defending the values of a people, their glorification, even deification – a degree when nationalism turns into pseudo-religion. Post-communist nationalism is a phenomenon of the awakening of national feelings and nationalist extremism after the fall of the communist system. According to Warren Zimmermann (1999: 71), the last US ambassador to Yugoslavia (1989-1992), now a senior consultant at RAND, the term Garbo nationalism is a form of modest nationalism, "a unique nationalism, without victims and enemies." It is about a nationalist spirit of the period when the Slovenes just wanted to be left alone; of the Slovenian national consciousness and Romanticism of the ‘90s on their road to independence. In this research the analytical, comparative, historical, content analysis and quantitative methods were used. Our findings show that the Slovenian Garbo nationalism is non-aggressive, apologetic, self-defensive, while later on it took other negative, even racist nuances, as may be seen from the graffiti, the treatment of national minorities, of refugees/migrants, etc.
The prominent Australian philosopher and thinker Ivan Illich,
with regard to his controversial di... more The prominent Australian philosopher and thinker Ivan Illich, with regard to his controversial discourse, says: “You can wipe out a whole city from the earth if you take away its breath.”1 The hermeneutics of this sentence makes us understand that cities are living organisms, with a body and a soul, with “cells and tissues”, creatures that breathe and even rebel when someone takes their power away, they are entities that will never forget (M. Armağan), but they can even cease to exist if we don’t cultivate or culturalise them. From the ancient cities (Byblos, Damascus, Jericho) up to now, together with cities that have brought us civilization, a special culture has been developing that distinguishes it from the rural geist, the rural way of living. This culture has been over-labeled as city culture or urban culture, that in up-to-date form results in urban life. This way of living in postmodern times, when everything passes away, has evolved in an interesting artistic, challenging way, it is a sub-artistic form or an alternative artistic form that carries its exhortation in public places like walls, buildings, bridges, in objects like old cars, on sign posts etc., communicating with the recipient sometimes in a verbal way (words, letters) and sometimes in a nonverbal way (pictures, paintings, drawings) out of the mainstream of the social life. In times of turbulent conditions graffi ti has been used as a means of expressing oneself, communicating and identifying with groups and ideals, and dividing territories among antagonists. This article aims to unfold the trends of the graffi ti (sub)culture in Skopje, as a mural literature of hatred and to detect the ratio between alternative art and ethnocentrism and the impact of this discourse in the everyday life.
INNOVATIVE GOVERNANCE: EXPLORING DIMENSIONS OF PUBLIC MANAGEMENT, POLICY, AND ADMINISTRATION ACROSS DIVERSE SECTORS, 2024
Abstract: In today's hyper fast world, technology plays a crucial role in our daily lives and ope... more Abstract: In today's hyper fast world, technology plays a crucial role in our daily lives and operations; it changes and improves our way of thinking, interaction, and communication with the other, social groups and public institutions. Consequently, integrating technology into the public sector and administration is unavoidable. Technology not only enhances efficiency but also contributes to environmental conservation by reducing the need for excessive document printing. By developing effective online platforms, services can be accessed directly, saving both time and resources. Examining this through Emile Durkheim's functionalist theory, we can explore how technology integration improves service systems. A notable example is the online service platform ‘eKosova’, which offers a range of services including civil status document issuance, municipal complaint management, information on grants and subsidies, and online bill
payments. To assess the impact of technology integration on service efficiency, we will employ a mixed- methods approach. This will include a literature review as a secondary source and a primary survey to gauge citizen attitudes towards this platform. The survey will focus on whether the platform has simplified citizens' lives and reduced the time required for essential document processing.
Today’s modern society is in a deep multidimensional crisis or upheaval, social, political,
cultu... more Today’s modern society is in a deep multidimensional crisis or upheaval, social, political, cultural and economic disruption. The pandemic or Covid-19 we faced some years ago (2019-2021) caused physical and psychological turbulencies thrughout the world. In crisological periods, religion plays the role of ‘rescue ship’, it preserves the hope and mental wellbeing. Thus, there is a fair correlation between the increase in the size of the crisis and the strengthening of spirtuality or religiosity, increase of religious ceremonies. The more powerful the crisis is, the more the figure of the homo religiosus (religious man) appears on the scene. Health and religion are intertwined. Major stressors makes some people more religious. (Leonhard et. al, 2023) In times of fear for health, survival and the future even atheists, nonbelievers change their worldview, their conception of life, of “truth here and there.” Especially at a context when even the most advanced medicine, the most sophisticated, is powerless in coping with a “inivisble actor”, a virus that shaked humanity, that has plagued and closed us planetarily. Gallup’s survey (March 28 and April 1, 2020), reveals that mental, dietary and exercise life has deteriorated, while religious life has advanced to 19% of interviewee, a picture which Newport (2020) interprets as a religious resurgence or revivification. He also mentions the ascending curve of religious indivudals and structures that perform constructive and charitable tasks. According to Bentzen the term prayer in Google increased sharply (in 95 coutries) during March 2020 when Covid 19 was top theme globally. (Catholic Herald, 2020). This paper based on empirical data and interview (32 ethnic Albanian intellectuals from North Macedonia) aims to build an original research on this very sensistive issue of beginning of the third millenium, treating global and local aspects. Findigs from our field research show an more vivid religiosity in Covid-19 times: more than 2/3 (68.9 %) of respondents feel themselves more religious in the period of Covid-19 and the most frequent terms in interviews are ‘belief ’ and ‘God’.
Batı'nın İslam konusunda en çok tanınmış bilim adamlarından birisi olan William Montgomery Wa... more Batı'nın İslam konusunda en çok tanınmış bilim adamlarından birisi olan William Montgomery Watt, İslami öğretilerin doğuşunu, tarihini ve sosyal yansımalarını mihrak alan bir çalışma ortaya çıkarmak için tarih, ilahiyat, siyaset ve sosyoloji gibi disiplinleri bir arada toplayarak kullanmaktadır. Watt, Batı biliminde İslamı sevimli ve objektif bir renkte tasvir etme konusunda önemli bir ilerleme kaydeden ender müsteşriklerdendir. Watt dünyanın büyük dinlerinden birisi olan İslam'ın tarihini, sosyal felsefesini incelerken ve sosyolojisini yaparken önemli bir iş yapmıştır. Kendisi aynı zamanda bugünkü İslam ülkelerindeki dinî inanç ile siyasal öğretiler arasındaki sıkı ilişkiler üzerine de durmaktadır. Onun eserleri, Hz. Muhammed ve onun halefleri tarafından kurulmuş siyasî-dinî yapıdan, bugünkü çağdaş dünyadaki durumuna kadar İslam'ın siyasî boyutunun açık ve geniş bir mütalaasını temsil etmektedir. Onun çalışmaları politik, sosyoloji ve İslami ilimlerle uğraşanlar için te...
This paper deals with one of the most prominent Turkish poets of the last century, Mehmet Akif Er... more This paper deals with one of the most prominent Turkish poets of the last century, Mehmet Akif Ersoy whose worldwide sociological dimension is appreciable. It is a micro social hermeneutic on the Akif's societal engineering based on Islamic tradition and its value system, opposite to racial-nationalism, caesarism and despotism, the social deviations of his Zeit as alienation, atheism, defeatism etc. Akif, through his poetical discourse, tried to save and affirm the spirit of solidarity and of the universal Islamic community (ummah), to affirm the idea of authentic identity based on spirituality, morality, patriotism and knowledge. In sum, this article is a synopsis of Ersoy's poetic vision, functionalist social philosophy, constructivist ethical-cultural approach and pro-active lifestyle that emanates in his magnum opus Safahat.
This paper is an analytical synopsis of Ahmet Davutoglu’s pro-civilizational activism, an essay o... more This paper is an analytical synopsis of Ahmet Davutoglu’s pro-civilizational activism, an essay on this globally recognized diplomat and expert in the field of international relations, history of political thought and political philosophy. Davutoglu is an author of the strategic doctrine of new Turkey as global actor with neo-Ottomanist Geist. It shows his multidimensional approach to civilizations and their world views (Weltanschauung), to their truth perceptions and cultural other/otherness, as well as his diplomatic discourse that generates security, peace and democracy that made him one of the main initiators of the Alliance of Civilizations in an era of Huntingtonian macro-conflictualism as new global disorder. This article focuses on non-rational differentiation in the West and the rest in the era of post-modern “international sprint”, when the world is transformed into a global village and when the only solution is in finding common values, a social philosophy that ties diffe...
«МЕЃУНАРОДЕН ДИЈАЛОГ: ИСТОК - ЗАПАД» (ПРАВО И ПОЛИТИКОЛОГИЈА), 2016
Interculturalism refers to support for cross-cultural dialogue and challenging self-segregation ... more Interculturalism refers to support for cross-cultural dialogue and challenging self-segregation tendencies within cultures. In the last few decades, interculturalism or multiculturalism, in Western countries, and in Macedonia since 2001 Ohrid Framework Agreement, has been frequently used in theoretical and public debates in the field of cultural policies in terms of whether there should be a stratification of cultures (dominant and secondary) or cultural relativism (every culture is important and deserves equal treatment). This study, which comprises of a descriptive-analytical and empirical-quantitative part, aims at producing an objective overview of the perceptions of citizens of Kumanovo in relation to pluralistic identities in this town, to the relations with the others, the otherness, communication, mutual trust, socio-economic conditions, the impact of indicators such as the media, politicians, education, family, etc., upon the ethnical cohabitation-frustration
In the literature of urban sociology slum is defined as a heavily populated urban area characteri... more In the literature of urban sociology slum is defined as a heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing, as a squalid section of a city, characterized by inferior living conditions and usually by overcrowding, usually a densely populated urban area marked by dirty rundown housing, poverty, and social disorganization. This description is in total accordance with the reality of Skopje’s non-urbanised or shanty neighborhoods, Gazi Baba (Chair Municipality) one of the capital’s lifespaces where people live in very low life conditions, where the urban planning and quality of life are only imaginary syntagms. Substandard housing and unsanitary conditions are the differentia speciffica of Gazi Baba, an urban zone mainly populated by ethnical Albanians. In this paper, by using different methods, we will try to focus on the status and perspectives of real urbanization of this non-urbanized urban geography. Qualitative and quantitative data will be used to make proper anal...
RULE OF LAW, GOVERNANCE AND SOCIETY IN THE WESTERN BALKANS Contributions to the Future of Europe, 2022
Nationalism means the consciousness of community of the people of a country, the sense of common ... more Nationalism means the consciousness of community of the people of a country, the sense of common being, interest and ideal of the nation. As a concept that gained importance especially in the twentieth century, nationalism means the ideology of defending the values of a people, their glorification, even deification – a degree when nationalism turns into pseudo-religion. Post-communist nationalism is a phenomenon of the awakening of national feelings and nationalist extremism after the fall of the communist system. According to Warren Zimmermann (1999: 71), the last US ambassador to Yugoslavia (1989-1992), now a senior consultant at RAND, the term Garbo nationalism is a form of modest nationalism, "a unique nationalism, without victims and enemies." It is about a nationalist spirit of the period when the Slovenes just wanted to be left alone; of the Slovenian national consciousness and Romanticism of the ‘90s on their road to independence. In this research the analytical, comparative, historical, content analysis and quantitative methods were used. Our findings show that the Slovenian Garbo nationalism is non-aggressive, apologetic, self-defensive, while later on it took other negative, even racist nuances, as may be seen from the graffiti, the treatment of national minorities, of refugees/migrants, etc.
The prominent Australian philosopher and thinker Ivan Illich,
with regard to his controversial di... more The prominent Australian philosopher and thinker Ivan Illich, with regard to his controversial discourse, says: “You can wipe out a whole city from the earth if you take away its breath.”1 The hermeneutics of this sentence makes us understand that cities are living organisms, with a body and a soul, with “cells and tissues”, creatures that breathe and even rebel when someone takes their power away, they are entities that will never forget (M. Armağan), but they can even cease to exist if we don’t cultivate or culturalise them. From the ancient cities (Byblos, Damascus, Jericho) up to now, together with cities that have brought us civilization, a special culture has been developing that distinguishes it from the rural geist, the rural way of living. This culture has been over-labeled as city culture or urban culture, that in up-to-date form results in urban life. This way of living in postmodern times, when everything passes away, has evolved in an interesting artistic, challenging way, it is a sub-artistic form or an alternative artistic form that carries its exhortation in public places like walls, buildings, bridges, in objects like old cars, on sign posts etc., communicating with the recipient sometimes in a verbal way (words, letters) and sometimes in a nonverbal way (pictures, paintings, drawings) out of the mainstream of the social life. In times of turbulent conditions graffi ti has been used as a means of expressing oneself, communicating and identifying with groups and ideals, and dividing territories among antagonists. This article aims to unfold the trends of the graffi ti (sub)culture in Skopje, as a mural literature of hatred and to detect the ratio between alternative art and ethnocentrism and the impact of this discourse in the everyday life.
GOVERNANCE IN PUBLIC SECTOR CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES, 2018
The conference aimed to provide academic platform for interaction for
junior academics, researche... more The conference aimed to provide academic platform for interaction for junior academics, researchers with more established academic com- challenges of good governance theme. In addition, this event strived to bring together policy makers, decision makers, representatives of IGO and academics on discussing the issue of governance in the public - tives in achieving good governance principles in public sector leading to successful public administration reform. Within the composed panels exploring three major thematic sessions elaborated further of understanding the importance of governance relations with capacity of political leadership and structural/organizational setting of local governance. Papers contributing to this panel titled “Political Leadership and Local Governance” attempted to respond to the question of what is the role of political leadership in envisioning future developments challenging current state of affairs? Second panel titled “Public Administration Reforms” papers contributed on how much the existing organizational structure is supported by means of professional education in public management?
Квалитетот на живот во ера на глобална криза: Реалноста на Албанците од Македонија Skopje/Shkup, ... more Квалитетот на живот во ера на глобална криза: Реалноста на Албанците од Македонија Skopje/Shkup, 2012 QUALITY OF LIFE IN GLOBAL CRISIS ERA: THE REALITY OF MACEDONIA'S ALBANIANS keywords: poverty, social exclusion, social cohesion, social services, unemployment FYROM
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changes and improves our way of thinking, interaction, and communication with the other, social groups
and public institutions. Consequently, integrating technology into the public sector and administration is
unavoidable. Technology not only enhances efficiency but also contributes to environmental conservation
by reducing the need for excessive document printing. By developing effective online platforms, services
can be accessed directly, saving both time and resources. Examining this through Emile Durkheim's
functionalist theory, we can explore how technology integration improves service systems. A notable
example is the online service platform ‘eKosova’, which offers a range of services including civil status
document issuance, municipal complaint management, information on grants and subsidies, and online bill
payments. To assess the impact of technology integration on service efficiency, we will employ a mixed-
methods approach. This will include a literature review as a secondary source and a primary survey to gauge
citizen attitudes towards this platform. The survey will focus on whether the platform has simplified
citizens' lives and reduced the time required for essential document processing.
cultural and economic disruption. The pandemic or Covid-19 we faced some years ago
(2019-2021) caused physical and psychological turbulencies thrughout the world. In
crisological periods, religion plays the role of ‘rescue ship’, it preserves the hope and mental
wellbeing. Thus, there is a fair correlation between the increase in the size of the crisis and
the strengthening of spirtuality or religiosity, increase of religious ceremonies. The more
powerful the crisis is, the more the figure of the homo religiosus (religious man) appears on the
scene. Health and religion are intertwined. Major stressors makes some people more religious.
(Leonhard et. al, 2023) In times of fear for health, survival and the future even atheists, nonbelievers
change their worldview, their conception of life, of “truth here and there.” Especially
at a context when even the most advanced medicine, the most sophisticated, is powerless in
coping with a “inivisble actor”, a virus that shaked humanity, that has plagued and closed
us planetarily. Gallup’s survey (March 28 and April 1, 2020), reveals that mental, dietary
and exercise life has deteriorated, while religious life has advanced to 19% of interviewee, a
picture which Newport (2020) interprets as a religious resurgence or revivification. He also
mentions the ascending curve of religious indivudals and structures that perform constructive
and charitable tasks. According to Bentzen the term prayer in Google increased sharply (in
95 coutries) during March 2020 when Covid 19 was top theme globally. (Catholic Herald,
2020). This paper based on empirical data and interview (32 ethnic Albanian intellectuals
from North Macedonia) aims to build an original research on this very sensistive issue of
beginning of the third millenium, treating global and local aspects. Findigs from our field research show an more vivid religiosity in Covid-19 times: more than 2/3 (68.9 %) of
respondents feel themselves more religious in the period of Covid-19 and the most frequent
terms in interviews are ‘belief ’ and ‘God’.
Framework Agreement, has been frequently used in theoretical and public debates in
the field of cultural policies in terms of whether there should be a stratification of cultures (dominant and secondary) or cultural relativism (every culture is important and
deserves equal treatment).
This study, which comprises of a descriptive-analytical and empirical-quantitative part, aims at producing an objective overview of the perceptions of citizens of Kumanovo in relation to pluralistic identities in this town, to the relations with the others,
the otherness, communication, mutual trust, socio-economic conditions, the impact
of indicators such as the media, politicians, education, family, etc., upon the ethnical
cohabitation-frustration
with regard to his controversial discourse, says: “You can wipe
out a whole city from the earth if you take away its breath.”1 The
hermeneutics of this sentence makes us understand that cities are
living organisms, with a body and a soul, with “cells and tissues”,
creatures that breathe and even rebel when someone takes their
power away, they are entities that will never forget (M. Armağan),
but they can even cease to exist if we don’t cultivate or culturalise
them. From the ancient cities (Byblos, Damascus, Jericho) up to
now, together with cities that have brought us civilization, a special
culture has been developing that distinguishes it from the rural
geist, the rural way of living. This culture has been over-labeled
as city culture or urban culture, that in up-to-date form results in
urban life. This way of living in postmodern times, when everything
passes away, has evolved in an interesting artistic, challenging way,
it is a sub-artistic form or an alternative artistic form that carries its
exhortation in public places like walls, buildings, bridges, in objects
like old cars, on sign posts etc., communicating with the recipient
sometimes in a verbal way (words, letters) and sometimes in a nonverbal way (pictures, paintings, drawings) out of the mainstream of
the social life. In times of turbulent conditions graffi ti has been used as a means of expressing oneself, communicating and identifying with groups and
ideals, and dividing territories among antagonists. This article aims to unfold the
trends of the graffi ti (sub)culture in Skopje, as a mural literature of hatred and to
detect the ratio between alternative art and ethnocentrism and the impact of this
discourse in the everyday life.
changes and improves our way of thinking, interaction, and communication with the other, social groups
and public institutions. Consequently, integrating technology into the public sector and administration is
unavoidable. Technology not only enhances efficiency but also contributes to environmental conservation
by reducing the need for excessive document printing. By developing effective online platforms, services
can be accessed directly, saving both time and resources. Examining this through Emile Durkheim's
functionalist theory, we can explore how technology integration improves service systems. A notable
example is the online service platform ‘eKosova’, which offers a range of services including civil status
document issuance, municipal complaint management, information on grants and subsidies, and online bill
payments. To assess the impact of technology integration on service efficiency, we will employ a mixed-
methods approach. This will include a literature review as a secondary source and a primary survey to gauge
citizen attitudes towards this platform. The survey will focus on whether the platform has simplified
citizens' lives and reduced the time required for essential document processing.
cultural and economic disruption. The pandemic or Covid-19 we faced some years ago
(2019-2021) caused physical and psychological turbulencies thrughout the world. In
crisological periods, religion plays the role of ‘rescue ship’, it preserves the hope and mental
wellbeing. Thus, there is a fair correlation between the increase in the size of the crisis and
the strengthening of spirtuality or religiosity, increase of religious ceremonies. The more
powerful the crisis is, the more the figure of the homo religiosus (religious man) appears on the
scene. Health and religion are intertwined. Major stressors makes some people more religious.
(Leonhard et. al, 2023) In times of fear for health, survival and the future even atheists, nonbelievers
change their worldview, their conception of life, of “truth here and there.” Especially
at a context when even the most advanced medicine, the most sophisticated, is powerless in
coping with a “inivisble actor”, a virus that shaked humanity, that has plagued and closed
us planetarily. Gallup’s survey (March 28 and April 1, 2020), reveals that mental, dietary
and exercise life has deteriorated, while religious life has advanced to 19% of interviewee, a
picture which Newport (2020) interprets as a religious resurgence or revivification. He also
mentions the ascending curve of religious indivudals and structures that perform constructive
and charitable tasks. According to Bentzen the term prayer in Google increased sharply (in
95 coutries) during March 2020 when Covid 19 was top theme globally. (Catholic Herald,
2020). This paper based on empirical data and interview (32 ethnic Albanian intellectuals
from North Macedonia) aims to build an original research on this very sensistive issue of
beginning of the third millenium, treating global and local aspects. Findigs from our field research show an more vivid religiosity in Covid-19 times: more than 2/3 (68.9 %) of
respondents feel themselves more religious in the period of Covid-19 and the most frequent
terms in interviews are ‘belief ’ and ‘God’.
Framework Agreement, has been frequently used in theoretical and public debates in
the field of cultural policies in terms of whether there should be a stratification of cultures (dominant and secondary) or cultural relativism (every culture is important and
deserves equal treatment).
This study, which comprises of a descriptive-analytical and empirical-quantitative part, aims at producing an objective overview of the perceptions of citizens of Kumanovo in relation to pluralistic identities in this town, to the relations with the others,
the otherness, communication, mutual trust, socio-economic conditions, the impact
of indicators such as the media, politicians, education, family, etc., upon the ethnical
cohabitation-frustration
with regard to his controversial discourse, says: “You can wipe
out a whole city from the earth if you take away its breath.”1 The
hermeneutics of this sentence makes us understand that cities are
living organisms, with a body and a soul, with “cells and tissues”,
creatures that breathe and even rebel when someone takes their
power away, they are entities that will never forget (M. Armağan),
but they can even cease to exist if we don’t cultivate or culturalise
them. From the ancient cities (Byblos, Damascus, Jericho) up to
now, together with cities that have brought us civilization, a special
culture has been developing that distinguishes it from the rural
geist, the rural way of living. This culture has been over-labeled
as city culture or urban culture, that in up-to-date form results in
urban life. This way of living in postmodern times, when everything
passes away, has evolved in an interesting artistic, challenging way,
it is a sub-artistic form or an alternative artistic form that carries its
exhortation in public places like walls, buildings, bridges, in objects
like old cars, on sign posts etc., communicating with the recipient
sometimes in a verbal way (words, letters) and sometimes in a nonverbal way (pictures, paintings, drawings) out of the mainstream of
the social life. In times of turbulent conditions graffi ti has been used as a means of expressing oneself, communicating and identifying with groups and
ideals, and dividing territories among antagonists. This article aims to unfold the
trends of the graffi ti (sub)culture in Skopje, as a mural literature of hatred and to
detect the ratio between alternative art and ethnocentrism and the impact of this
discourse in the everyday life.
junior academics, researchers with more established academic com-
challenges of good governance theme. In addition, this event strived
to bring together policy makers, decision makers, representatives of
IGO and academics on discussing the issue of governance in the public
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tives in achieving good governance principles in public sector leading
to successful public administration reform. Within the composed panels
exploring three major thematic sessions elaborated further of understanding
the importance of governance relations with capacity of
political leadership and structural/organizational setting of local governance.
Papers contributing to this panel titled “Political Leadership
and Local Governance” attempted to respond to the question of what
is the role of political leadership in envisioning future developments
challenging current state of affairs? Second panel titled “Public Administration
Reforms” papers contributed on how much the existing organizational
structure is supported by means of professional education
in public management?