Source: balkaninsight.com To mark International Women’s Day, the Kosovo authorities paid homage to female war victims and screened a documentary in parliament about sexual violence during the 1999 conflict. Petrit Collaku, BIRN, Pristina Photo: Tributes were paid to female war victims at a monument near parliament. Photo: Kosovo parliament. Kosovo’s parliament on Tuesday screened a documentary about the women who suffered sexual violence […]

Source: CODA • Essays • Open Academic Network Since the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), different attempts have been undertaken, especially by civil society actors, to promote stories of interethnic help and rescue which occurred during the war. Svetlana Broz published the book Good People in an Evil Timein 1999, and, with her NGO Gariwo, promotes such stories through lectures, films and educational […]

Source: Recom.link   From Hybrid Peace to Human Security: Rethinking EU Strategy towards Conflict   The Berlin Report of the Human Security Study Group is the culmination of a five year research programme Security in Transition, based at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The report was presented to […]

Kosovo’s education minister Arsim Bajrami said that transitional justice will be taught as part of the high school curriculum starting from September 2017. Doruntina Baliu, BIRN, Pristina Photo: Humanitarian Law Centre round table discussion on transitional justice. Photo: BIRN. Education minister Bajrami on Thursday accepted a proposal from the Humanitarian Law Centre office in Kosovo for transitional justice to be taught in […]

Source: Recom.Link Photo: Two secondary mass graves near Snagovo, Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photocredit: MyBukit   Researching transitional justice in the Balkans: the victims of war crimes and their civic voice In 2015, Dr Denisa Kostovicova was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship that has allowed her to delve into the merits and limitations of a regional approach to transitional justice in the Balkans.  In a […]

RECOM Interview: Christian Axboe Nielsen Christian Nielsen has a doctorate in history from Columbia University, and wrote his dissertation on dictatorship of King Aleksandar. He has worked as an analyst and external consultant for the Office of the Prosecutor in the Hague, and has testified at four trials. He specializes in analyzing the work of the region’s ministries of internal affairs, […]

Source: balkandiskurs.com This paper analyzes the importance of the return process and sustainable integration of returnees for reconciliation in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. With Annex VII of General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia (Dayton Peace Agreement, or DPA), refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) were ensured they could return to their pre-war homes. One obstacle for returnee families is in education […]

Source: Recom.link by Vladan Petkovic, BERLIN 2016 Ognjen Glavonić is the first Serbian filmmaker to tackle the war crimes of his nation head-on in the Forum documentary Depth Two   For six years, Serbian filmmaker Ognjen Glavonić has been researching a hidden event from the war in Kosovo for a fiction feature he is trying to make. While the lack of financing is still […]

Source: Recom.link Conflicting perceptions of the past, troubling perspectives for the future By Teuta Hoxha It has been more than 17 years since the war in Kosovo, yet relations between Kosovo and Serbia are still fragile. Kosovo today is struggling to achieve the idea of a multiethnic society in the aspects of communication, cooperation and eventually integration between communities living in Kosovo, […]

Source: Recom.link Contemporary Southeastern Europe, an international scholarly journal of the Centre for Southeast European Studies, the University of Graz, Austria, published article about momorialization of Srđan Aleksić, a war hero widely commemorated last years, especially in Serbia and Republika Srpska. Author of the article is Nicolas Moll, an independent researcher and lives in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 2007. […]

Source: Recom.link Photo: Alija Izetbegović, center, president of Bosnia and Herzegovina, looks on as Franjo Tudjman, right, president of Croatia, and Slobodan Milošević, president of Serbia, shake hands after initializing a peace accord between their countries during the Dayton Peace Accords of 1995. (John Ruthroff/AFP/Getty Images) By Gerard Toal and John O’Loughlin, Washington Post Last November and December, a series of events […]