Background
Stamatović was born in Sarajevo, to a family from Montenegro which worked in Sarajevo at the time.
Stamatović was born in Sarajevo, to a family from Montenegro which worked in Sarajevo at the time.
In 1976, the family returned to Montenegro where he finished primary and secondary school, in history and archaeology. He graduated from the Philological Faculty (history and geography) in Nikšić, in March 1991.
He served the Yugoslav Army in 1985-1986. He received a master"s degree in the Philosophical Faculty (history) in Priština, in 1994. He received a Doctor of Philosophy from the Philosophical Faculty (history) in Belgrade, in January 2000.
Foreign thirteen years he worked as a professor on history in a number of primary and secondary schools in Podgorica, Montenegro.
In the 1998-2001 period he was an honorary professor on general history in the Orthodox Seminary of Saint Petar of Cetinje. He lives in Podgorica.
He is a docent of history in the University of East Sarajevo. His father was a professor who worked throughout Yugoslavia, from the vicinity of Danilovgrad, and his mother an economist from the vicinity of Šavnik.
He paternally descends from the Stamatović clan of the historical Katun nahiyah, and declares as ethnic Serb.