Since June 1999, Jovan has been at the Patriarchate of Peć in Kosovo and Metochia. He supervised the Church relations with the KFOR and United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. He worked for the salvation of religious objects, refugee protection, calculating and determining the number of victims, wounded, lost, expelled and working on the documentation of the suffering of Serbs civilians. In January 2001, Jovan visited Israel, as a member of the Yugoslavia State Delegation, and prestented his viewpoints on the Kosovo Question. In the same year, this connection went to Italy to build cooperation with Italian institutions for the protection of the heritage of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and Metochia.[1]
In the early 2000s, Jovan contributed to the efforts of the Serbian Orthodox Church for the rehabilitation of Nikolaj Velimirović, a controversial figure due to his extensive anti-Semitic rhetoric in the 1930s. Jovan has faced criticism by some authors for not addressing antisemitism within the Church and the work of Velimirović.[6] He organised and led the project of adapting poems written by Nikolaj Velimirović into rock music album, titled Pesme iznad istoka i zapada (Songs beyond East and West), which gathered a number of Serbian and Yugoslav rock bands.[5]
In 2004, he was awarded Golda Meir Award and in 2020 he was awarded the Israeli order "Knight of Ladino".[7]
Jovan has emphasized the necessity for political and military victories of the Bosnian Serb community over that of spiritual victory despite military defeat which other figures in Republika Srpska have emphasized. According to Ćulibrk, this victory is reflected in the "cleansing" of a part of multiethnic Bosnia by the Serb forces. As such Ćulibrk has claimed that "Serbian Sarajevo is also the symbol of a town cleansed by fire".[8]
Jasenovac Committee
In 2002, Ćulibrk participated in the third international conference about Jasenovac concentration camp in Jerusalem. He led Serbian delegations to international conferences on the Holocaust in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2010. In 2006 in Israel, he gave lectures on Breakup of Yugoslavia and interethnic relations at the Vidal Sassoon Center in Jerusalem. On March 14–15, 2007, as a representative of the Serbian Orthodox Church, he participated in the 6th meeting between Orthodoxy and Judaism at Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.[1]
In his role as the director of the Jasenovac Committee, Jovan has claimed that the Jasenovac concentration camp was the "worst of all camps and extermination sites in WWII".[6]
He widely developed the work of the Jasenovac Commission of the Serbian Church to promote the worldwide awareness of the Genocide of Serbs. In 2009, he gave two lectures on Jewish history and culture at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and he gave lectures again on Jewish culture in Belgrade in 2020.[9]
The State of Israel and its Relations with Successor States of Former Yugoslavia During the Balkan Conflict of 1991-1999 and in its Aftermath, 2008[18]
^Čolović, Ivan (2002). The Politics of Symbol in Serbia: Essays in Political Anthropology. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 255. ISBN1850655561. In his opinion, that victory is reflected in the fact that the Serbs destroyed and cleansed at least part of multiethnic Bosnia, at least part of the Sarajevo the Serbs so hated, that city where they had to live in the false, fictitious peace of a multinational community which, after Tito, was imposed on them by the West and its pop-culture. (..) "Serbian Sarajevo is also the symbol of a town cleansed by fire."
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