KOSOVO AND METOHIJA: BETWEEN BRUTAL REALITY AND NORMATIVE SACREDNESS
KOSOVO AND METOHIJA: BETWEEN BRUTAL REALITY AND NORMATIVE SACREDNESS

Summary/Abstract: To the Serbian people and the state of Serbia, the status of Kosovo and Metohija is a question of elementary identity and integrity: of identity – in the sense of Serbian self-understanding being determined by the normative sphere within which the Vow of Kosovo and Vidovdan ethics2 certainly fall; of integrity – not only in the sense of territorial integrity and sovereignty, but also integrity as the capacity for self-preservation. That is why Kosovo is a vital issue of the Serbian state and national organism, or, the organic issue of the Serbian state and national vitality. When facing the problem of Kosovo, we are – as a nation and a state – split up between the brutal reality (military capture of Kosovo and Metohija by NATO, allied with the revolting Albanians in this province of Serbia) and normative sacredness (the significance of Kosovo in the church-national tradition).

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