Nijaz Duraković

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Nijaz Duraković (born January 1, 1949 in Stolac ; † January 29, 2012 in Sarajevo ) was a Yugoslav or Bosnian political scientist and politician .

Life

He studied sociology and political science at the University of Sarajevo and received his doctorate in 1979. He was a lecturer there, and from 1986 as a full professor for comparative political systems research and international relations .

From 1989 he was chairman of the Bosnian regional association of the Union of Communists of Yugoslavia . After its dissolution he was chairman of the successor party Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine (SDP); in this office he was succeeded in 1997 by Zlatko Lagumdžija . During the Bosnian War , Duraković was a successor to Fikret Abdić of the seven-member Bosnian presidency, which was otherwise dominated by the nationalist parties. In 1998 he was elected to the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a member of the SDP . He participated in the establishment of the Socijaldemokratska unija Bosne i Hercegovine (SDU), a spin-off from the SDP. In 2006 he was re-elected to the Federation's Parliament for the SDU. In 2010 he was unable to return to parliament. He was married and had two daughters.

Works

  • Prokletstvo Muslimana (The Curse of the Muslims), 1993
  • Bosanski izazovi (Bosnian Challenges), 1999
  • Uporedni politički sistemi (Comparable Political Systems), 2000 ( ISBN 9958947625 )
  • (with Muhamed Filipović): Tragedija Bosne (The Tragedy of Bosnia), 2002
  • Prevara Bosne (Fraud against Bosnia), 2004

Web links

  • Obituary on slobodnaevropa.org (Serbo-Croatian)
  • Obituary for al Jazeera Balkans (Serbo-Croatian)
  • Obituary in the Dnevni Avaz (Bosnian)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mirko Pejanović , Through Bosnian eyes. The political memoir of a Bosnian Serb , 2004 ( ISBN 1-55753-359-8 ), p. 112
personal data
SURNAME Duraković, Nijaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav or Bosnian political scientist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Stolac
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2012
Place of death Sarajevo