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‘Dealing with the Past: Social Movements in Kosovo in socialism and 1990s

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of student demonstration of 1997 in Kosovo, Alter Habitus – Institute for Studies in Society and Culture, Center for Southeast European Studies (University of Graz) and University of Prishtina are organizing a conference on social movements in Kosovo, during and after socialism. Scholars of social sciences and humanities, civil society activists, artists and […]

Bosnia Activists Install Signs at Unmarked War Sites

For the past three years, Amer Delic, Dalmir Miskovic, Cedomir Glavas and Tamara Zrnovic have been putting up memorial signs at unmarked places of wartime suffering in a series of guerrilla actions across Bosnia and Herzegovina, trying to send a message that every victim deserves respect. The activists argue that memorialisation still depends on political will in the Balkans, where […]

CONFERENCE “POLITICS OF BUILDING PEACE IN THE REGION: BURDENS FROM THE PAST AND VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE”

It is our pleasure to invite you to the regional academic conference "Politics of building peace in the region: burdens from the past, visions for the future", which will be held at the Faculty of political science in Sarajevo, from 19 to 22 October 2017. Conference participants will discuss about the following topics: Ethno-national interpretations of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Building peace in contemporary […]

(IN)COMPLETE IMAGES OF THE FEMALE WAR STORY

I was five years old when the war started. I do not remember the images, they are clear, but intermittent. Even today, twenty-two years after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I am unable to put them together in a single whole. I remember that immediately before the war I was supposed to start going to swimming […]

Guardian of memories

On a strange day, someone decided to start a war in Sarajevo. Consciously or unconsciously, this changed the fate of all of us who had been born and were living there and nobody asked us about the type of life that we would like to have. The very same Sarajevo that was a cradle of emotions, differences, cultures and warmth […]

Viki

Stories of women survivors of torture during the last war in Kosovo (10/10) My sister, sister-in-law, cousins and I About 17 women were assembled by a group of paramilitaries in a city in Kosova. The most beautiful women from the neighborhood were assembled, according to the witness. They were sent to a school in a nearby village. According to the […]

Civilian victims of wars at the mercy of the state of Serbia

Dževad Koldžić saw his mother for the last time on October 22, 1992. She was hijacked on that day on the way to work to Priboj from the bus that crossed the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Mioče, members of the paramilitary formation ”Avengers”, lead by Milan Lukić, took her and 15 men off the bus. They took them […]

I want to be heard

As of the upcoming Wednesday (Sep. 13, 2017), in the next 10 working days, DwP-Balkans will publish an oral history interview with a survivor of sexual violence each day, taken from the memory book "I want to be heard: Memory book with stories of women survivors of torture during the last war in Kosovo”. The aim of the project is to […]

A movie is a time capsule

Does it penetrate into the human consciousness that when a big war happens, it is always followed by smaller wars? Does the Albanian people ever pause and think that after seeing the blood flooding the alley of horror at the Reçak Massacre, after having been a target of war from another state, after many similar other scenarios, that it went […]

Dealing with the past through gatherings of youth from different post-conflict societies

During the month of July 2017, we had the opportunity to attend a summer school unlike any other neither of us had attended before. The summer school brought together 20 teenagers from ex-Yugoslavian countries, all of whom had the opportunity to learn about the region’s history from different perspectives. The summer school was named “Challenge History”, and it not only […]

‘Men Don’t Cry’: Revealing Balkan Veterans’ Emotions

Source: balkaninsight.com Photo: Deblokada A new feature film made by a Bosnian war veteran dramatically explores the minds of men who fought in the 1990s and how it affected them psychologically and emotionally. Igor Spaic BIRN Sarajevo At a remote hotel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a group of veterans who fought on opposing sides during the Balkan wars have come together for […]

DESPITE ITS LIMITS, THE ICTY HAS BLAZED A TRAIL FOR VICTIMS’ EMPOWERMENT

Source: trialinternational.org The ICTY may not have brought the desired reconciliation in BiH, but its influence and legacy provides a crucial basis for future endeavors. An op-ed by Selma Korjenic. THE LAST-RESORT TRIBUNAL In 1993, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established in The Hague (Netherlands). Tasked with the prosecution of the highest-ranked suspects from across the […]

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