BULGARIAN ETHNIC MODEL NATIONAL VERSION OF THE DIALOG OF THE CIVILIZATIONS

Vladimir Chukov

Vladimir Chukov PhD, is an Assistant Professor, and the
Director of Bulgarian Center for Middle East
Studies

Bulgarian society innovated theoretically and historically its
own civilization model during the war in Kosovo. It was called Bulgarian
ethnical model and represents such intern social and political construction,
which is characterized by stability, equality and common responsibility.

The ethnos as political process initiating subject took away
the appropriate functions from the religious group. Bulgarian civilization
dialogue is dominantly multitude of complex interethnic relations against the
background of the contrasting interrelations between Bulgarians and Turks, the
two big ethnic groups in the country. Ahmed Dogan, the leader of the Movement
for the Rights and Freedoms and the biggest Bulgarian liberal political party
founded the principles of the above-mentioned pattern from theoretical and
terminological point of view. Meanwhile, as strictly ideological matter the
paints of the local Conservators and Socialists have colored Bulgarian ethnical
model. Bulgarian kind of participating or supporting nationalism and the
specific national Statehood traditions contribute to this civilization choice
implementation.

Bulgarian ethnic model is a small part of the global process of
the dialog of the civilizations. Its specific national features enrich the
diversity of the world civilization dialog. It may prove to be a conspicuous
sample for Balkan tranquility and willingness for social welfare.