It is a sunny May morning in Prijedor. The summer heat could already be felt from the early hours of the day. We entered the premises of the KVART Youth Center. The hallway was crowded, there was a sense of urgency in the air, everyone had their own tasks and moved from room to room. We passed through the first […]

Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the most serious ”dark tourism” destinations on the planet. The remnants of the war and crimes committed, including the genocide in Srebrenica, have placed our country high on the list of destinations appealing to tourists seeking something different than the traditional ”sun, sea and sand” holiday.  Author: Sanela Karaica To begin with, let us […]

When bombs fell on universities in Gaza, they did not just destroy buildings – they targeted the future. Nadia Sonneveld, an associate professor and legal anthropologist at Leiden University, together with a group of colleagues and students from the Netherlands and Palestine, has spent the past two years documenting this destruction in the framework of the project Picturing Scholasticide – […]

The wars that engulfed the territory of the former Yugoslavia triggered one of the largest waves of forced migration in European history after the Second World War. It is estimated that between 1991 and 2001, more than three million people left the territory of the former Yugoslavia, moving to cities in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and other European […]

“Hallo München” is a documentary film by Croatian director Krsto Papić from 1968, which tells the story of economic migrants (the so-called gastarbeiters) in Germany and their influence on the Dalmatian hinterland, where they would bring their “Western” cars, luxurious household appliances, and money – things their compatriots who had remained in Yugoslavia could only dream of. A few years […]

The Institute for Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina is frequently a ”hostage” of a complex political system, in which the lack of budget funds is directly prolonging the agony of families that have been waiting to find the mortal remains of their family members for decades.  Author: Zinaida Đelilović More than 7,500 persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina are still […]

International Roma Day, April 8, is not only an opportunity to celebrate cultural identity, but also an obligation to remember the numerous and serious human rights violations that have accompanied the survival and social acceptance of this ethnic community. Contemporary Montenegro is fundamentally grounded in anti-fascist principles and values. The current public debate on the socialist legacy somehow marginalizes and […]