Tonči Kuzmanić je jedan od osnivača Mirovnog instituta u Ljubljani. Izvanredni profesor je za područja politike, sociologije i etike u managementu Univerziteta na Primorskem, Kopar (Slovenija, EU). Zadnjih godina se intenzivno bavi istraživačkim radom na području kritike managementa, globalizacije, etike te odnosima između managementa i politike u uvjetima post-socializma i globalizacije. Dugi niz godina je djelovao u mirovnom gibanju i kao istraživač ratova, nasilja, neprijateljskog govora, rasizma i politike. Zadnja njegove knjiga s tog područja su „Neprijateljski govor u Sloveniji" (2002) te „Mediji, Politika" (MI, 2005). Njegove najnovije knjige, poglavlja u knjigama te članci se odnose na „Managerski diskurz" (Koper, FM, 2007), na „Kritiku P.F: Druckera i managerske paradigme" (MI, 2008) te na „Management i politiku" (u Biloslavo, FM, KP, 2008). Trenutno je u procesu objave kolektivna studija njegovog istraživačkog tima pod naslovom „Kritika managerske revolucije" (Časopis za kritiku znanosti, 2010). Predavač je i na postdiplomskom studiju Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis u Ljubljani, utemeljitelj Radničko-punkerskog univerziteta (Ljubljana) te To Lykeion (Koper), na kojem je i predavač (ovogodišnja predavanja: „Karl Marx i razumijevanje našeg vremena"). Vodi nekoliko projekata, istraživačkih timova i kružoka, posebice „Razumijevanje Martina Heidggera", „Čitanje Aristotela" te „Analitika Amerike i managerske revolucije". Trenutno dovršava knjigu „Kapitalizam, post-kapitalizam i managerska revolucija".
Primjer teksta Tonči Kuzmanića:
Nasilno rasturanje Jugoslavije
I. EDUCATIONAL RECORD:
BA, with highest distinction, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social and Political Science and Journalism, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1982.
MA, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social and Political Science and Journalism, University of Ljubljana, 1992.
Ph.D. Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, 1995.
II.ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Researcher at the Center for Theory and Practice of Self-management, Ljubljana, 1983-1986
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Science, University of Ljubljana from 1989-1995.
Senior Research Fellow, Peace Institute, Ljubljana (Research projects: Political Extremism in Europe, 1993-1996; Theoretical Consequences of the War in Bosnia 1996-1999).
Lecturer: Reading Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Political, Faculty of Social Science, University of Ljubljana, school year 1995-1996;
1997-1998, Theories of Violence in XX century, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana 1997/1998; Ethics and Culture, College of Management, Koper, 1996/1997, 1997/1998
III. FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Jean Monet Fellowship, European Community Program, Florence, Istituto Universitario Europeo, Fiesole, Firenze, Italia, 1992.
Ruskin Fellowship, Ruskin College, Oxford, Great Britain, 1994.
Borsa di studio di Facolta di Sociologia, Universita di Trento, Italy, 1996
IV. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Governing Board and a Founding Member, Peace Institute, Ljubljana, 1991 until the present.
Member of Editorial Board, Journal for Critique of Science, Ljubljana, 1986 until 1992.
Professional editor of Journal for Critique of Science, Ljubljana, 1986 until 1989.
V. OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCES
Consultant Member of Parliamentary Commission for Peace Politics, Slovenian Parliament, 1991-1993.
Member of the Alternative Council for Protection of Human Rights, Ljubljana 1988-1990.
Member of the Slovene National Council for the Protection of Human Rights 1991-1994
Activity in the Slovene peace and civil society movement, 1985-1990.
Freelance journalist - columnist from 1983 until the present. Regular contributor to Mladina weekly, contributor to Ost-West
Gegeninformationen Graz, War-Report and Red Pepper, London, Media Watch (OSI), Ljubljana...
Lecturer at different international new-social movements, civil society and peace movement conferences, organized by Austrian Institute for Peace and Conflict Research, Schlaining, War Resisters International, London, ACLI, Milano, Firenze, Venezia, EUPRA and IPRA associations, POPEM, La Valetta...
VI. RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION
Research field is political theory, specially history of political ideas, comparative studies and conflicts. My major research interest in the past lay in the field of conflicts and politics - especially strikes, war(s) and new social and specially antipolitical, extremists movements.
VII. LANGUAGE SKILLS
Native: Croatian
Fluent: English, Italian and Slovene
VIII. SOME PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS: Kuzmanić, Tonči: (1988): Strikes - the Beginning of the End (of Self-Management), KRT, Ljubljana, 1988
Kuzmanić & Truger (eds.) (1992): Yugoslavia, War... , Peace Institute Ljubljana and Schlaining - Slovenia and Austria... (in English language), Second edition 1993.
Kuzmanić, Tonči (1997): Creation of Antipolitics, The Elements of Genealogy of Social Sciences, ZPS, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Kuzmanić, Tonči (1999): Hate Speech in Postsocialist Slovenia - Chauvinism, Racism and Sexism, Slovene-English edition by Open Society Institute, Slovenia (bilingual: slovene & english).
SOME ARTICLES: Kuzmanić, Tonči: Yugoslavhood and Subnational Conflicts in Yugoslavia. // V: New Challenges for Europe After 1989. - The Consortium For the Study of European Transition. - Budapest - 1991; The Center for European Studies, Budapest.- pp. 49-60. ISBN 9630415275.
Kuzmanić, Tonči: Stalinism as the Problem of Methodology. // V: Kuzmanić & Truger, Yugoslavia, War... - Peace Institutes: Ljubljana and Schlaining. - 1992; pp. 45-52. - NUK - Ljubljana sign. - 30264064.
Kuzmanić, Tonči: Entmilitarisierung im ehemaligen Jugoslawien. // V: Gaisbacher et. all (Hrsg.). - Krieg in Europa - Analysen Aus Dem Ehemaligen Jugoslawien. - Edition Sandkorn - Frankfurt a.M., 1992; str.58-68. - ISBN 3-7638-0190-1 (dipa. Verlag), ter ISBN 3-901100-22-9 (de. sandkorn).
Kuzmanić, Tonči: Iugoslavia: Una guerra di religione?. // V: Religioni e Societa, Firenze, No 14 (1992); str. 107-122.
Kuzmanić, Tonči: La disgregazione della Jugoslavia come disgregazione dello "jugoslavismo", v Europa, Europe, Cespeco, Fondazione Istituto Gramsci, Roma. 1992, CL 64-3013-9
Kuzmanić, Tonči: Understanding the War in Former Yugoslavia. // V: v Kuzmanić & Truger (ed.): Yugoslavia, War... , 2. izdaja, Peace Institutes Ljubljana and Schlaining, 1993; str. 181-198 - NUK Ljubljana št. - 30264064.
Kuzmanić, Tonči: Guerra e religione nella ex-Jugoslavia, v Mare di guerra, mare di religioni, a cura di Luciano Martini, Il Caso Mediterraneo, ECP, Firenze, 1994, ISBN 88-09-14014-1
Kuzmanić, Tonči: Strikes, Trade Unions, and Slovene Independence, v Independent Slovenia, ed. Benderly and Kraft, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994. ISBN 0-312-09963-0
Kuzmanić, Tonči: Towards Aristoteles, Časopis za kritiko znanosti, Ljubljana, št. 174, 1995, pp. 145-173
Kuzmanić, Tonči: Slovene political extremism, Časopis za kritiko znanosti, Ljubljana (1997), pp. 46.
Kuzmanić, Tonči: Racist Antipolitical Discourse in Slovene Newspapers, Časopis za kritiko znanosti, Ljubljana (1998), pp. 51.
Kuzmanić, Tonči: Slovenia: From Yugoslavia to the Middle of Nowhere?, in Democratization in Central and Eastern Europe, eds. Kaldor & Vejvoda, Pinter, London and New York, 1999, pp. 121 - 134.