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.