The Roma community in North Macedonia is the most marginalized community that has been dealing with serious problems for decades, from socio-economic problems, all the way through problems with education, discrimination, access to all rights and services, poor living conditions, and what not!? According to the latest census in North Macedonia (2021), the total population is 1,836,713 inhabitants, of which […]

Built at the beginning of the 16th century, completely destroyed at the beginning of the war in the 1990s, the Dugalića Mosque at the centre of Nevesinje was reconstructed.   Author: Miljan Kovač The last in a series of 12 destroyed mosques in this municipality should be officially opened as soon as the next summer. Final works are underway.   […]

Author: Edvin Kanka Ćudić Ana and Vasilj Lavrov were arrested in October 1993. They were Ukrainians by ethnicity, married and living in Sarajevo. They were executed by the members of the Tenth Mountain Brigade of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In November of the same year, they were exhumed from the pit in Kazani and buried […]

The European Commission recently released its annual progress reports — an ideal moment to pause and reflect on where the Western Balkans stand on their path toward European integration. Despite the title, this text is not written to pin the blame on Brussels. While colonial continuities and paternalistic frameworks do exist in the way the European Union (EU) approaches the […]

Introduction North Macedonia has a unique and complicated relationship with the EU in comparison to other Western Balkans countries. This relationship presents a vulnerability that can be exploited by a host of actors, domestic and foreign, intent on undermining the EU. This mainly relates to the country’s ethnic composition, its fraught relationship with neighbouring Greece and Bulgaria, and the resulting […]

Introduction Gandhi once said: ”There is no path to peace – peace is a path.” This thought resonates strongly in the work of the Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, the founder of peace studies, who pointed out that peace does not happen spontaneously, but must be rather carefully built over a long period of time. According to Galtung, the so-called positive […]

Ever since 4-5 years ago, a young man from Pro Peace (at that time forumZFD) suggested that we join forces with this organization and create media content. We, as Radio MOF [YEF], as a small non-profit and youth media with over 10 years of experience – immediately accepted, since we realized that the organization had down-to-earth and sincere intentions that […]

At the end of May 2025, the Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue in the then newly formed Government of Serbia, Demo Beriša, opened the conference “The Suffering of Roma during the Conflict in Kosovo and Metohija” as the envoy of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia. The Minister stated that we must not forget […]