{"id":35069,"date":"2025-05-14T10:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T08:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/?post_type=publikacija&#038;p=35069"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:31:09","slug":"eco-extremism","status":"publish","type":"publikacija","link":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/publication\/eco-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Eco-extremism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>In recent years, there has been a notable rise in ecologically motivated violent incidents, which could lead to the delegitimisation and criminalisation of justified environmental initiatives. Serbia is no exception in this regard. Over the past few years, environmental initiatives opposing lithium mining in Serbia have surfaced, and authorities have labeled them as eco- terrorists and eco-extremists in an effort to discredit them. Therefore, it is crucial to clearly differentiate radicalism from extremism in order to support democratic activism while preserving community safety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"border-borderMain\/50 ring-borderMain\/50 divide-borderMain\/50 dark:divide-borderMainDark\/50 dark:ring-borderMainDark\/50 dark:border-borderMainDark\/50 bg-transparent\">\n<div class=\"gap-y-md flex flex-col\">\n<div class=\"relative font-sans text-base text-textMain dark:text-textMainDark selection:bg-super\/50 selection:text-textMain dark:selection:bg-superDuper\/10 dark:selection:text-superDark\">\n<div class=\"min-w-0 break-words [word-break:break-word]\">\n<div id=\"markdown-content-0\" class=\"gap-y-md after:clear-both after:block after:content-['']\" dir=\"auto\">\n<div class=\"relative\">\n<div class=\"prose text-pretty dark:prose-invert inline leading-normal break-words min-w-0 [word-break:break-word]\">\n<p class=\"my-0\">The author of this backgrounder is Aleksa Simi\u0107, an intern at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecological degradation and climate change in recent decades have raised citizens\u2019 concerns and led to the formation of many environmental protection movements. However, alongside legitimate activism, radical and extremist groups have also emerged, employing violent methods to draw attention to their aims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8606,8607],"tags":[11360,11361,11362],"vrsta":[9448],"pdfpub":[],"coauthors":[164],"class_list":["post-35069","publikacija","type-publikacija","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenges-risks-and-threats","category-extremism","tag-eco-extremism","tag-environmental-initiatives","tag-radicalism","vrsta-glossary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacija\/35069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacija"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publikacija"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35069"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacija\/35069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35084,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publikacija\/35069\/revisions\/35084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35069"},{"taxonomy":"vrsta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vrsta?post=35069"},{"taxonomy":"pdfpub","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pdfpub?post=35069"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}