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The theatre group challenging Bosnia’s ethnic divisions

I was imprisoned in Omarska concentration camp. There’s a growing danger it could happen again. That’s why I’m working with young people to help stop it. During the 1990s, I witnessed first-hand the horrific consequences of the rise of ethnic nationalism in my country, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I was born in Prijedor, one of the regions most severely affected during […]

Learning lessons from a violent past for a peaceful future

Seminar cycle for educators, teachers, student-teachers, museum professionals and NGO-representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and Germany. 30.9.-6.10. 2018: First seminar in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Spring 2019: Second seminar in France; Fall 2019: Third seminar in Germany Joint Memory Lab-project organized by the Forum ZFD Bosnia and Herzegovina (Soraja Zagic / Michel Parente), the History Museum Bosnia and Herzegovina (Tijana […]

Jajce – students fighting against ethnic divisions

In May 2016, the media throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina published an ”unbelievable” piece of news: a group of students of the Secondary Vocational School ”Jajce” went out into the streets of the small Central Bosnia town, which has an almost identical proportion of Bosniaks and Croats, with very few persons defining themselves as belonging to other categories, connected the flags […]

Suppressed siege of Bihać region

Just as during all other years, the recent news about the 26th anniversary of the beginning of siege of Bihać region went unnoticed. It was mentioned only briefly in the local media. The first associations that I have in case of such anniversaries and memories of the siege are shrapnels that missed me by a few centimetres, exploding shells, deaths […]

Anniversaries

”Why should we be writing about it, there is nothing new there… as compared to others. Montenegro basically has not participated in the war at all”, said a colleague recently, an experienced journalist who works for a high-circulation daily newspaper, while answering the question why war crimes, in case of which light has never been fully shed on and which […]

How can arts and culture contribute to dealing with difficult pasts and to reconciliation in Europe?

Source: Memorylab Seminar cycle for teachers, museum professionals, NGO-representatives and artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France and Germany. 30 September – 6 October 2018: First seminar in Germany; Spring 2019: Second seminar in France; Fall 2019: Third seminar in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Joint Memory Lab-project organized by Max-Mannheimer-Study-Centar Dachau (Magdalena Geier), Memorial de Rivesaltes (Elodie Montes), History […]

OPEN CALL – INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON CONTEMPORARY ART FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Sarajevo, June 25th-30th 2018 Application deadline: May 28th 2018 Kuma International, with the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in partnership with the Bosniak Institute – Adil Zulfikarpašić Foundation, the WARM Foundation and Brodac Gallery, presents a one-week intensive course on contemporary art from Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on visual art, design, photography, film and theatre from a […]

In the shadow of a diplomatic war

Photo: Rade Vilimonović At the moment of publication of the EU Progress Report for Serbia in which Serbia was requested, among other things, to ”demonstrate stronger commitment to the resolution of the war crimes legacy and foster mutual trust and reconciliation”, there was an ongoing verbal war between Serbian and Croatian politicians. By reacting to a provocation of the Defence Minister, […]

Academic Conference – Revisiting Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice in the Balkans

University of Prishtina and forumZFD Kosovo programme invite proposals for an international conference—to be held in Prishtina 20-22 September 2018—on the topic of dealing with the past and transitional justice. The Conference aims to bring together scholars from diverse academic fields and practitioners who are working from different thematic and theoretical paradigms to explore approaches to dealing with the past […]

These societies are proving on a daily basis and in every sense that they have not faced the past at all

There is a vast number of reasons for a text with such a headline, because such reasons appear on an almost daily basis. We could have written about all of this also following the Mladić judgment, just as we could have done so after the judgments in case of officials of Herzeg-Bosnia or Šešelj.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS SUMMER SCHOOL and PROJECT “CHALLENGE HISTORY 2 – REACT FOR THE FUTURE”

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS SUMMER SCHOOL and PROJECT “CHALLENGE HISTORY 2 – REACT FOR THE FUTURE” 22-28 July2018 Prizren, Kosovo* The Center for Peace and Tolerance (CPT) and its project partners1 are pleased to announce the call for applications for the Summer School of “Challenge History 2 –REACT for the Future”, which will be held from 22nd to 28th July 2018 […]

USHMM Event TEACHING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND MASS ATROCITIES: LESSONS FROM THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE

In cooperation with the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights (EIHR), Forum Civil Peace Service (forumZFD), Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC), and the Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy Bosnia and Herzegovina is well-known for being politically fragmented where the daily nourished politicization of the past creates divisions along ethnic lines which are strongly present even in our school systems. The memory landscape is […]

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