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The Centre for the Renewal of Culture (COK) was founded by Dr Stephen Nikola Bartulica and his colleagues in 2009, based in Zagreb, Croatia. The Vice President, Dr Robin Harris, took on the role of President in 2024, when Mr Bartulica became a Member of the European Parliament.<\/p>

As the name suggests, the assumption behind its activity is that it is a country’s culture, not just the parties and politicians who run public affairs, that ultimately matters. This culture needs to be renewed for and by each generation. Our culture must be founded upon the principles of Western civilization, which, themselves, have been shaped by Christianity. For our more detailed programme see pur homepage.<\/p>

Our first public event, in 2009, was a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Among leading speakers were Lech Walesa and Mart Laar.<\/p>

Much of our work has concentrated on educating the rising generation of leaders in Croatia who must face the national and international challenges of the future. To this end, over the years, we have held summer schools addressed by distinguished speakers in Kor\u010dula, Zadar and Split.<\/p>

After the slow-down imposed by COVID, we returned to full working mode with three Free Market Road Show conferences \u2013 in collaboration with the Austrian Economic Centre and Hayek Centre from Vienna; a Young Leadership Academy \u2013 in collaboration with the Brussels-based conservative think tank New Direction; and hosting a Swedish professor lecturing on the threat to Christian values in Europe.<\/p>

In Washington DC, we visited CPAC 2020, established cooperation with the Leadership Institute, and held discussions with our old friends at the Heritage Foundation (the world’s biggest conservative think tank). In November 2022, in Warsaw, our then President Stephen Bartulica \u2013 now a member of the European Parliament – delivered a lecture on the rule of law at the invitation of the chairman of the Polish Constitutional Court. Also that November, we launched an initiative to expose, in cooperation with likeminded individuals and organisations in Slovenia, the full, detailed facts about the crimes committed by Yugoslav Communists – about which too many people remain silent.<\/p>

In July 2023 \u2013 in cooperation with New Direction \u2013 we organised a Summer University in Zagreb. As well as discussions of the nature of freedom, we held two panels on the Crimes of Communism and a key note address by Jo\u017ee De\u017eman on the mass graves of the victims of Communism in Slovenia. We also held a panel on the demographic crisis which we face in Europe and especially in Croatia.<\/p>

We have promoted the publication of important texts in Croatian \u2013 such as books by Christopher Dawson, Russell Kirk, Ryszard Legutko and Marcello Pera. In recent years, we have organised in our premises in central Zagreb a regular Academy open to young people \u2013 students and young professionals \u2013 with courses on history, philosophy, politics, and economics.<\/p>

We believe that Croatia must regain its consciousness of being part of Central Europe \u2013 which in the era before Yugoslavia it always was. We, therefore, participate in activities organised by like-minded organisations in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland. We have recently made a special effort to grow closer to those who think as we do in Slovenia.<\/p>

In 2025 we plan to highlight the crimes committed by the Partisans in 1945, when they took control after the Second World War, and more broadly to discuss the argument about whether what happened eighty years ago represented liberation (as it is still called), or enslavement to a different totalitarian system. We shall systematically address, over the coming years, other themes relating to the history of Croatia.<\/p>

Among contemporary topics, we plan to discuss the significance of the election of US President Donald Trump, and the policies which his Administration may pursue, focusing on Europe and on our own and adjoining regions. Energy, trade, and demography are other major themes with which we intend to engage.<\/p>

COK is a registered non-profit NGO that can be found here<\/a> and reached here<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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