In Serbia anti-war intellectuals started to unite around their opposition to the dictatorship, media consensus, the growth of nationalism and war.
[2] In 1992 the Belgrade Circle published a book edited by Ivan Čolović and Aljoša Mimica, called The Other Serbia; the book contained 80 speeches and essays, made during ten public forums that took place from April 11 to June 20, 1992 at the Student Cultural Center.
[3] The participants of those forums which raised its voice against war, hatred, extermination, and ethnic cleansing (mostly university professors, writers, artists, journalists, activists, and anti-fascists) became known as the Other Serbia.
[5] According to Filip David, the opponents of Other Serbia were "nationalist elites who declared us enemies and traitors.
[7] According to historian Florian Bieber, Other Serbia fulfilled at the time an important symbolic function in "challenging the seeming homogeneity in intellectual and popular support for extreme nationalist policies.