This year, X Regional School of Political Philosophy Dr. Zoran Djindjić will take an in-depth look at “The work of Zoran Djindjić – twenty years later”. The school, intended for undergraduate and master’s students from Serbia and the region, will be held in Belgrade from Tuesday, November 14 to Thursday, November 16, 2023.

In the year that marks two decades since the murder of Serbia’s first democratically-elected prime minister, the Zoran Djindjic Regional School of Political Philosophy aims to renew interest in Djindjic’s academic, scientific and political work. Dr. Djindjić’s academic and scientific work, including a significant contribution to the questioning and critical analysis of dominant philosophical trends in his youth, as well as dealing with political and constitutional topics in the later stages of his work. In his theoretical work, Djindjić tried to answer the key questions facing the region at a time when philosophical, legal and economic paradigms, geopolitical circumstances and state borders were changing.

Dr. Djindjić’s practical-political work was marked by his fight against Slobodan Milošević’s authoritarian regime during the 1990s, the (re)building of the institutions of representative democracy and the rule of law, and the resolution of major territorial issues while the region was recovering from wartime and inter-ethnic intolerance. The questions raised by the school are about the relevance of Djindjić’s academic and political work today, its impact on contemporary regional societies and states, as well as his contribution to solving the most important political issues in the late 1990s and early 2000s.