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- Title
THE ROLE OF YOUTH IN ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS IN SERBIA.
- Authors
Manic, Ivana; Manic, Milos
- Abstract
The paper deals with the issue of sustainable development and its key principles and goals. By adopting the National Strategy for Sustainable Development, the Republic of Serbia has accepted that sustainable development should become its permanent development commitment. For this paper, two principles of the strategy are identified through which the role of citizens in achieving sustainable development goals in the country can be seen: 1) open and democratic society - citizen participation in decision-making, ensuring civil rights, access to information and participation in decision making; 2) involvement in social processes, ie integration of citizens into society. A special focus of the work is placed on the youth population as a special category that should contribute to sustainable development in the country through its participation and activism. The Republic of Serbia has to some extent ensured the role of young people in achieving the goals of sustainable development by conceiving the National Strategy for Youth for the period from 2015 to 2025. The strategy is based on the strategic commitment of the state to work with and for young people. The strategy calls for continuous and systematic investment in youth development and the establishment of a partnership between youth and the state in order to increase active participation in society, encourage social integration and ensure the involvement of young people in the development of youth policy. The participation of young people in society, ie their role in achieving the goals of sustainable development, as viewed through the results of the latest research on the position and needs of young people in the Republic of Serbia conducted by the Ministry of Youth and Sports in the period 2015-2019. The analysis of the results aimed to establish the extent to which the basic ideas and principles of sustainable development were present in these researches, as well as the role of young people in the realization of these principles. The research showed that in 2015, young people showed a majority disinterest in political events in the country and low social activism. The situation worsened in 2016 because an even larger number of young people were not interested in participating in the work of an organization and events in the country. The turnaround followed in 2017 because a majority growth of young people's interest in political events in the country was established, but the position remained that young people are powerless in terms of influencing political processes and decisions. The following year, the interest of young people decreased again, and in 2019, the majority of disinterest was established again. The results of this research can build on existing knowledge in this area. Many studies have already shown that young people in Serbia are insufficiently involved in decision-making (Kuka, 2013, Veljković, 2017) that they have accumulated energy for social activism, but that they often do not know how to channel it (Marković, 2004), that they are not interested in politics or work to be politically informed (Popadić et al., 2019), that the basic trend is present among young people in Serbia, the trend of alienation from the political and social dynamics of society (Jarić & Živadinović, 2012), that reduced political activity of young people is a significant obstacle to their full integration social system (Jarić & Živadinović, 2012) and that Serbia still has a lot of work to do in terms of improving the quality of youth policies, strengthening their implementation and monitoring (Mojsilović, 2018).
- Subjects
SERBIA; SUSTAINABLE development; SOCIAL advocacy; SOCIAL systems; DECISION making; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Knowledge: International Journal, 2020, Vol 41, Issue 1, p213
- ISSN
2545-4439
- Publication type
Article