TheBelgrade Circle is anNGO established inBelgrade,Serbia, in February 1992.
Initially, the organisation hosted lectures and discussions with mainly Serbian intellectuals, united by their opposition to thenationalist policies ofSlobodan Milošević. The Belgrade Circle formed links with NGOs in other parts of the former Yugoslavia, and began to gain an international reputation, hosting lectures by internationally acclaimed intellectuals includingJacques Derrida,Christopher Norris andRichard Rorty.[1] The organisation subsequently focused on strengtheningcivil society, and worked in co-operation with universities and academics from across the world.[2] It also publishes theBelgrade Circle Journal, which was a member of theEurozine network between 1995 and 2013,[3] and has published prominent thinkers such as Rorty,Jürgen Habermas andNoam Chomsky.[4]
In 1992 a book entitledDruga Srbja (Second Serbia orOther Serbia) came out featuring a selection of texts and speeches, made during the spring of 1992 at meetings of the Belgrade Circle, against the government, the media, the growth of nationalism and war;Other Serbia became during the 1990s, a term to designate groups and individuals who wereanti-war and opposed to nationalism.[5]
