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The League of Nations , was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It... was the first permanent international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. Its primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, included preventing wars through collective security and disarmament, and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. Other issues in this and related treaties included labour conditions, just treatment of native inhabitants, human and drug trafficking, arms trade, global health, prisoners of war, and protection of minorities in Europe. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members. The diplomatic philosophy behind the League represented a fundamental shift from the preceding hundred years. The League lacked its own armed force and depended on the Great Powers to enforce its resolutions, keep to its economic sanctions, or provide an army when needed. However, the Great Powers were often reluctant to do so.
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The University of Novi Sad is a university located in Novi Sad, the capital of Serbian province of Vojvodina and the second largest city in Serbia.... The University of Novi Sad is the second largest among six state universities in Serbia. The main University campus provides the University of Novi Sad with a unique and beautiful setting in the region and the city of Novi Sad. Having invested considerable efforts in intensifying international cooperation and participating in the process of university reforms in Europe, the University of Novi Sad has come to be recognized as a reform-oriented university in the region and on the map of universities in Europe. Novi Sad and Vojvodina have always been major centers of culture and education in Serbia. Although the contemporary University of Novi Sad was established in 1960 with its modern campus, Novi Sad and the whole region have a record of education starting from the 11th century with religious seminaries. The University campus is located in Novi Sad, the capital of the province of Vojvodina.
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The University of Niš is a university located in Niš, Serbia. It was founded in 1965 and it consists of 13 faculties with 1500 teachers,... 630 staff and extracurricular staff, and around 30,000 students. Since its foundation the University diploma was acquired by more than 50,000 students, including 1300 foreigners. The University comprises a university library "Nikola Tesla" and 13 academic units of which the Faculty of Technology is located in Leskovac and the Teacher-Training Faculty in Vranje. The University of Niš was incorporated as an independent degree-granting institution on June 15, 1965. Its establishment rounded off an important, in many ways pioneering, period in the more recent history of the town which started in 1960 when the first undergraduate programs commenced in Niš under the academic patronage of the University of Belgrade. They were institutionalized as the faculties of Law & Economics, Medicine, and Engineering, constituting a core from which a more and more complex and richer physiognomy of the University would systematically develop, following the demands of times and life itself.
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The Megatrend University is a private university located in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1989 and is organized into 19 institutions. Since... its founding, the University has educated more than 12,000 bachelors, around 120 magisters, 20 masters , and 60 doctors. The very first institute of the university was Belgrade's Megatrend Business School which was established 1989, and later on was the founder of all other institutes which comprise the present Megatrend University. During 1991, Megatrend Business School, together with the Technical Faculty of Bor carried out the project of management graduate studies introduction. This project which was the first one of this type in South-East Europe, was financially supported by the European Union TEMPUS Fund which was specifically intended for the development of business education. This success has caused further expanding of Megatrend educational network. In the previous educational system, institutes were missing that could provide the similar kind of knowledge. Most notable is the Faculty of Geo-economy the first institute of this kind in this part of the world.
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Goran Bregović is one of the most internationally known modern musicians and composers of the Balkans. He currently splits his time between... Paris and Belgrade, where he settled down during the Yugoslav Wars. Bregović has composed for such varied artists as Iggy Pop and Cesária Évora. He rose to fame playing guitar with his rock band Bijelo dugme. Among his better known scores are Emir Kusturica’s films . Bregović’s compositions, extending Balkan musical inspirations to innovative extremes, draw upon European classicism and Balkan rhythms. Bregović's music carries Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian, Bulgarian, Greek and Romani themes and is a fusion of popular music with traditional polyphonic music from the Balkans, tango and brass bands. Bregović was born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia, to a Serbian mother and Croatian father. His father was an officer in the Yugoslav People's Army .
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Haris Čizmić is a Bosnian American artist, musician, video producer and graphic, industrial and web designer. Čizmić obtained a... Bachelor of Arts degree in Design from University of Sarajevo. He began his career working as a consultant for companies in Slovenia, Sweden, Germany, Italy and Croatia. As the youngest member of the Bosnian Professional Artist Society, he exhibited his work at several solo and group exhibitions. After graduation, he worked as an assistant teacher at High School of Applied Arts in Sarajevo. In 2000 he moved to the United States. Since then, he has worked in areas of marketing and advertising to all forms of media: Web, TV, video, print, illustration, 3D, animation, and traditional media. As a senior Art Director at Campbell-Ewald, and later at Wunderman-Team Detroit, his work includes brand and online media units for Chevy, Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Warrior Sport, Scotts, Bosch, and many others. Haris is involved in many different and diverse fields and is extremely multi talented in many different aspects.
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Branko "Đuro" Đurić is a Bosnian actor, director and musician from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Born to a Serb father and Bosniak mother... in Sarajevo, Đurić rose to prominence throughout the former Yugoslavia with the hit comedy series Top Lista Nadrealista during the 1980s. Đuro became something of an epitome for the Bosnian people, primarily due to his accent and slang. He was also one of the founding members of SCH and the frontman of Sarajevo rock band Bombaj Štampa. During the Yugoslav wars he moved to Slovenia. Following his appearances on Top lista nadrealista and Audicija sketch comedy shows, Đuro was cast by the award-winning director Emir Kusturica in Dom za vešanje. Though his role in the movie was minor , Đuro left a good impression that opened doors for an acting career. Notable films where he appeared have included: Currently, Ðurić is married to Slovenian actress Tanja Ribič with whom he played with in Kajmak in marmelada and lives and works in Slovenia, where he leads Theatre 55, a film production company.
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Sejo Sexon is the stage name of Davor Sučić, Bosnian rock and roll musician, composer, actor and television director. Sejo was one of the... founders of the New Primitivism movement in Sarajevo, where he co-founded the band Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors , and was the lead-guitarist and co-author with the original setup of Zabranjeno pušenje. He also participated in the Top lista nadrealista - war edition TV show in episodes which were created and aired between 1992 and 1994 in besieged Sarajevo. After the Bosnian War he moved to Zagreb, Croatia where he lived for some time. Later he came back to Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and continued one of the two later fractions of Zabranjeno pušenje .
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