My life
Ivanka Popović, professor at the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy of the University of Belgrade
FEAR OF ‘THE OTHER’ IS AT THE ROOT OF ALL CONFLICT
She served as rector of the University of Belgrade in her last term and displayed the required decisiveness and strength to preserve this institution’s dignity and clear position as a public asset that should serve society, and not be used as a tool in some political or social clashes. It could be said that she inherited some of her political thinking from her grandfather, David ‘Daka’ Popović (1886-1967), who was a senator, the first noble ban of the province of Danube Banovina and served as minister of Agrarian Reform, while some of her calmness was instilled by her father, renowned Yugoslav diplomat Gavra Popović 54
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