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Historical Revisionism as a Platform for Nationalism and an Obstacle to Lasting Peace in the Western Balkans

Intellectual elites were a key factor in constituting the national awareness and the ideology of political nationalism in the 19th century Europe. There is plenty of evidence about the principal role that intellectuals, primarily historians, have played both in generating and disseminating nationalist ideologies and doctrines of ‘young’ European nations. They were assigned with the noble task to create, establish, and solidify an […]

Reshaping the Past in Public Space: the Case of Mostar

Social changes, particularly those arising from conflict, prompt both communities and individuals to question whom they belong to and why, and what the source of their identity is. This is fertile ground for revisionism as the question of belonging – especially after the turns resulting in the loss of common identity (as was the case with the Yugoslav identity) is […]

Historical Revisionism in Bosnia and Herzegovina

For a long time, history was not just a science of the past but also a tool that political elites use to achieve their political goals. Such abuse of the past is evident also in Bosnia and Herzegovina, though maybe not to the extent as in Croatia and Serbia. Nonetheless, the waves of historical revisionism have flown over from Croatia […]

Remembering the past on Social Media

AUTHOR: VLADAN ĐUKANOVIĆ Photo credits: Vladan Đukanović We often treat social media as something new and even unknown, despite it having been part of our lives for over a decade. Ever since it made its explosive debut in the Balkans, it has been a space for discussions around dealing with the past and reproducing existing content in new forms. “15 […]

Dealing with the past in the times of Social Media

AUTHOR: SRĐAN PUHALO Photo credits: Zlatko Popović “Dealing with the past relates to processes of confronting a violent past, meaning violence towards against all victims regardless of their ethnic, political or other affiliation. Dealing with the past occurs in any particular society on different levels: personal confrontation, i.e. the processing of memories and questioning of one’s own responsibility for violence; […]

Facing your Painful Past every day: The difficulties of Dealing with the Past in the Digital Age

AUTHOR: BESNIKE SALIHU Photo credits: Besnike Salihu The digital era has introduced us to online media and social networking platforms, which have made it easier to obtain multiple formats of information in real time, fostered greater connection, brought people closer, and created alternative ways to network and communicate. Whilst these are positive changes, at some level the digital age has […]

The Trials are Ending – Now What?

Photo credits: Jovana Prusina When we speak about transitional justice, we are also speaking about criminal justice, victims and witnesses, missing and internally displaced persons and their families, mass graves and the right to truth, reparations, lustrations and more. War seeps into all crevices of society, and consequently the processes of transitional justice do too. The broader discourse surrounding transitional […]

Inside the Trap of Fake News

AUTHOR: FITIM GASHI Photo credits: Fitim Gashi Trigger Warning: This article contains graphic language depicting sexual violence against women that took place during the war in Kosovo. A member of the parliament caused a scandal with a photograph on the day the Assembly of Kosovo adopted the Resolution on Serbia’s genocide in Kosovo. In May of last year, MP Flora Brovina […]

Role of Social Media in the Affirmation of Revisionism, Re-writing the Past and the Culture of Forgetting

AUTHOR: BELMA BULJUBAŠIĆ Photo credits: Vladan Cvetković Social media is a powerful tool of the 21st century. Although its positive aspects are immense, it is often abused and used for propaganda and manipulation. A large amount of lies, disinformation and insinuation reach great numbers of people through social media networks. This is especially true of Twitter and Facebook, where problematic […]

Social media and portals – A space for overcoming or reinforcing prejudice?

AUTHOR: KATERINA SMILEVA Photo credits: Katerina Smileva The dilemma of whether the influence of online media is more positive or negative, will plague us for as long as these platforms exist. The fact is that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social networks have changed our lives. They have altered how we report on and share information. From one side, this […]

Close but Unknown

AUTHOR: FAHRI HISENI Photo credits: Fahri Hiseni It is difficult to comment on interethnic relations in any society and doing so from a Balkan perspective is no exception. One reason for this is the complex historical context within which the countries of this peninsula exist. In each of the Balkan societies today, there is a great appetite for looking back […]

“If there was a tomb where I could place flowers”

INTERVIEW WITH: MILORAD TRIFUNOVIĆ Miroslav Trifunovic had returned to Kosovo after several years of living abroad. He was 43 and was thinking of marrying and creating a family. He worked in the Belacevac surface coal mining. He even built a floor of the house he would live in when he married. In June 1998, he was about to go […]

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