Introduction North Macedonia has a unique and complicated relationship with the EU in comparison to other Western Balkans countries. This relationship presents a vulnerability that can be exploited by a host of actors, domestic and foreign, intent on undermining the EU. This mainly relates to the country’s ethnic composition, its fraught relationship with neighbouring Greece and Bulgaria, and the resulting […]

Introduction Gandhi once said: ”There is no path to peace – peace is a path.” This thought resonates strongly in the work of the Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, the founder of peace studies, who pointed out that peace does not happen spontaneously, but must be rather carefully built over a long period of time. According to Galtung, the so-called positive […]

Ever since 4-5 years ago, a young man from Pro Peace (at that time forumZFD) suggested that we join forces with this organization and create media content. We, as Radio MOF [YEF], as a small non-profit and youth media with over 10 years of experience – immediately accepted, since we realized that the organization had down-to-earth and sincere intentions that […]

At the end of May 2025, the Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue in the then newly formed Government of Serbia, Demo Beriša, opened the conference “The Suffering of Roma during the Conflict in Kosovo and Metohija” as the envoy of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia. The Minister stated that we must not forget […]

The European Union’s green transition has opened a new chapter in the relationship between Europe and its peripheries, both within and beyond EU borders, most recently through the EU’s Green Deal which aims for net zero emissions by 2050.[1] Although Bosnia and Herzegovina has formally adopted EU climate regulations and strategies, limited institutional capacity and financial constraints have ensured that […]

The collapse of the Eastern Bloc was celebrated in the West as the triumph of freedom over communism, nurturing the illusion that history had reached its conclusion. Fukuyama’s “end of history” became shorthand for the expectation of a liberal era in which democracy and prosperity would erase old ideological and political divisions.[1] Within this narrative, the wars in Yugoslavia were […]

Any memory of a war crime carries its own graveness, however, the graveness of the suffering of Grabovica adds an additional aspect of bitterness due to the context in which this crime happened. This village was not the scene of fights, victims were not killed by crossfire, but were rather killed in their own homes and in the yards of […]

Srebrenica, Prijedor, Ahmići, Višegrad… When it comes to war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, these are the locations that are usually mentioned in this context. This happens for a reason. Crimes committed elsewhere were swept under the rug. One of these locations is Čelinac, an idyllic town near Banja Luka.   Author: Milkica Milojević In the period from 1992 to […]

The Hospital for Skeletal Diseases in Stolac was repurposed in the summer of 1993. Back then, one of the darkest chapters of the war history of Bosnia and Herzegovina started. Usually, it is the most innocent ones who pay the highest price for the madness of persons that target others for being different and consider them enemies for this reason. […]