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2012 CALL
FOR PAPERS
THE
FIRST FREEDOMS:
MIHAJLOV'S QUEST
FOR
DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
The times call for a re-assessment of Mihajlo Mihajlov's life, work, and legacy, whose significance reaches well beyond Tito’s
Yugoslavia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. Mihajlov’s quest for democracy and
human rights is an inspiration for all who strive for an open society,
pluralism, and tolerance. An indefatigable human rights champion, Mihajlov’s
example contributed to the rise of dissent, civic culture, and civil society,
which ushered in momentous changes culminating in the peaceful revolution in
Eastern Europe and the demise of Soviet rule. Mihajlov’s first freedoms–speech,
thought, press, assembly, association, philosophical, political and religious
persuasion–remain a continuing challenge worldwide. Curiously, Mihajlov’s
thought offers a conceptual bridge between Westernizers and Slavophiles, while
his universalism helped him befriend dissidents of all ethnic groups. Indeed,
Mihajlov’s was a universal message of individual freedom and social justice. His
undogmatic spirituality and central conception of human dignity drew on Russian
religious philosophy. The question arises: Can the Mihajlov strategy guide today
the quest for basic human rights and freedoms, constitutionalism, the rule of
law, and democratization by strengthening global civil society? And, can the
vision of popular self-government be realized in a world of competing
socio-economic, political, and ethno-national interests and ideologies?
Manuscript Deadline:
March
1, 2012. Send
3 both-sided copies of: 15-25 page mss., each with a 150-word Abstract, typed, double-spaced, in-text
citation format, author identification on a separate sheet (with postage for mss.
return/SASE) to: Dr. O. Gruenwald, JIS Editor, IIR, 1065 Pine Bluff Dr., Pasadena,
CA 91107, USA. Early mss.
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