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Education and Transitional Justice: Opportunities and Challenges for Peacebuilding [report]

Recom.link: http://www.recom.link/education-and-transitional-justice-opportunities-and-challenges-for-peacebuilding-report/ To gain a stronger understanding of how education can help countries dealing with legacies of conflict and mass atrocities, ICTJ partnered with UNICEF on an ambitious research project examining the connections between education and transitional justice in peacebuilding contexts. After over two and a half years of work examining experiences in nine countries and covering a myriad of […]

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Balkan Politicians ‘Not Taking Reconciliation Seriously’

Recom link: http://www.recom.link/balkan-politicians-not-taking-reconciliation-seriously/ Constant self-victimisation is prolonging the divisions that fuelled the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, experts warned during a discussion in Belgrade. Marija Ristic, BIRN, BelgradePoliticians are failing to properly address the issue of post-war reconciliation, experts told a panel discussion on Monday organised by a coalition of NGOs involved in campaigning for a regional […]

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Researching reconciliation: between public narratives and micro-politics

Text written for REKOM, www.recom.link By Catherine Baker Who needs to reconcile with each other after the Yugoslav wars, what would have to occur before reconciliation could take place, and how would anyone be able to tell if it had happened? Many researchers as well as policy-makers have tried to approach this question in post-Yugoslav societies – but often imply that meaningful […]

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Tears Falling on Bread ~ Winning Story of Srđan Aleksić Youth Competition

Source: http://www.recom.link/suze-padaju-na-kruh-pobednicka-prica-konkursa-srdan-aleksic/  Nevena Medic was recently awarded first place in the Post-Conflict Research Center’s “Srđan Aleksić Youth Competition”. “Srđan Aleksić Youth Competition“, challenges young people in Bosnia to discover, collect, and share stories of peacebuilding, moral courage, and interethnic cooperation from their local communities. Through the competition, the center hopes to inspire youth to take an active role in the promotion of […]

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Distorted Remembrance Culture ‘Traps Bosnia in Past’

(Photo: www.church-and-peace.org | Source: www.balkaninsight.com) Bosnian university professor Ljubinka Petrovic-Ziemer says the culture of silence in Bosnia – and the selective or politically motivated cultures of remembering the war – are holding back meaningful reconciliation.  Her warnings are contained in a new paper titled: “Cultures of Remembrance in Sarajevo, or the Protracted Search for Multiperspectivity and Integration”. “We are trapped in the past,” she […]

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