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Maglaj, Truth and Propaganda

“All this happening after the war is what is the hardest thing for me. Why do we, ordinary people who are not in politics, hate each other (Not everyone!) so much? Why are they not being convinced that we should hate those who made us hate each other, to kill each other? (…) They [the politicians] agreed well on how […]

Wе, during the War and beyond

When world wars happen, like the current one in Ukraine, it reminds us, the inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula, of our history and the misfortunes that every generation has had to endure for centuries. There are monuments all over the region, but there are also ruins that remind us every day of the hostilities that took place here. There is […]

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the fragility of the Macedonian political environment

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022, changed the political climate in Europe and the world and announced a new era of global relations, which has yet to take shape in the post-conflict process, and which will be based on the complexity that arises from the emerging reality of the multipolar world. The global powers will obviously […]

DEBT

Thirty years have passed… Never has the past hit the present head-on like this year. For the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina, we came to Sarajevo, us, some fifty foreign journalists and photographers who had shared with the Sarajevan’s those dark hours of the history of Bosnia and eye witnessed the return of […]

Why is Journalism a Peace Mission?

I firmly believe that journalism, as a force of responsible, professional, and ethical public speech, has the potential to create a democratic and open society. In this article I share personal reflections on why I perceive journalism as a peace mission, especially in a post-conflict society such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here – under the influence of nationalistic politics – […]

THE “YOUTH” GENERATION

The history of Bosnia and Herzegovina has many words to say about the young people living there. Those words, however, have yet to find their way to a common binder. Marked by a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-lingual, multi-national coexistence, we are still unable to finalize the process of building peace, or at least establishing a lasting dialogue. Peace cannot come without […]

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(Extra)ordinary People. Documentation Repository on Albanian-Serbian Coexistence in Kosovo, 19th – 21st centuries

More than two decades after the Kosovo conflict, the Serbian-Albanian and Kosovar-Serbian relations are still portrayed by sinister metaphors like “Europe’s apartheid”, a “system of ethnic segregation”, a “frozen conflict” or “endless tariff war”. Regardless of certain improvements in the domains of bilateral relations, the protection of minority rights, and the political and proactive social participation of minorities at the […]

Separate histories in Kosovo and Serbia textbooks

Afërdita Lukaj You cannot find much about the 1998-99 war in Kosovo in the history textbooks of primary and secondary schools in Serbia. What those texts contain are even more crimes allegedly committed by Albanians. The primary school textbooks, grades 5 to 12, in Kosovo also present even more only the crimes committed by Serbian forces. Searches in internet also display highly […]

Heritage under the kingdom of post-war concreting

Xheneta Murtezaj Restorations without criteria have followed the buildings of special importance in Kosovo, which have suffered from destruction and damage during the war in Kosovo and from the carelessness that has prevailed in the post-war reconstruction chaos. The data of the Ministry of Culture of Kosovo show that there are 1,025 monuments of construction heritage including towers, traditional dwelling […]

Kosovo aims to address war issues in a strategy for transitional justice

Tringa Dreshaj After many attempts and more than 22 years since the end of the war in Kosovo, this year, the Government of Kosovo started to draft a National Strategy for Transitional Justice in the country. This strategy aims to address human rights violations and war crimes that took place in Kosovo during 1998-99, and a team of 10 civil […]

Divergences in Albanian and Serbian perspectives on history

Qliresa Hasani Tracing mixed emotions, Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo continue to look back at their past from completely opposite perspectives. More than two decades after the end of the 1998-99 war, in the historical perspective of Albanians, the war in Kosovo is observed in most parts of the country, while for Serbs, the former Yugoslavia is observed more as […]

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