When we talk about Kosovo’s tragic past, this narrative often ends with NATO’s air strike campaign, the intervention which we see as the end of the period of violence in Kosovo. On the 23rd anniversary of the 78-day-long NATO air raid, we remember the short history of the fall of Yugoslavia and the position of Kosovo as its socialist autonomous […]

The national day of guilt was marked on 26 February 2022, the thirtieth anniversary since the start of the secret state project of depriving non-Slovenian citizens of their civil rights and expelling them from Slovenia. After WWII the Germans began raising awareness about guilt and taking responsibility ten years or so later, until it became collectively accepted some fifteen to […]

Destroyed buildings, terrified persons trying to reach the border with the neighbouring country or are trying to find alternatives to meet their basic living needs in their city under the siege – it sounds like a description of the four-year state of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, this is currently happening in Ukraine, a country that has been fighting […]

More than two decades after the Kosovo conflict, the Serbian-Albanian and Kosovar-Serbian relations are still portrayed by sinister metaphors like “Europe’s apartheid”, a “system of ethnic segregation”, a “frozen conflict” or “endless tariff war”. Regardless of certain improvements in the domains of bilateral relations, the protection of minority rights, and the political and proactive social participation of minorities at the […]

Photo: Personal archive Kosovo’s declaration of independence could have meant the beginning of a different relationship of Serbia regarding human rights violations in the near future. It could have been a beginning of the implementation of a new type of politics which would show a clear denunciation of war crimes as well as those who committed, organized and ordered them. […]

As the recent protests in North Macedonia show, cultural issues can be as divisive and disruptive as political issues. In the case of North Macedonia and Bulgaria, old political disputes over territory are virtually non-existent in mainstream discourse, both countries recognize each other’s borders and no modern Bulgarian political parties or organizations seek the incorporation of North Macedonia into the […]

It was rightly said: the siege and fall of Vukovar represent the final act in Yugoslavia’s death. Final because Yugoslavia was already sentenced to death in 1972 at the latest, when the bearers of the neoconservative (structurally neostalinist) turn triumphed, and the consequences could be seen in the complete removal of sense or meaning from the dominant proclamations and slogans […]

In the framework of the festival “Mirëdita – Dobar dan”, which is held in honour of the actor Bekim Fehmiu, with the purpose of promoting the coexistence and tolerance between Serbs and Albanians, a summary of excerpts from the interviews of the architect, urbanist, urbanologist, idealist, Professor Bogdan Bogdanović, selected and prepared for publication by Shkëlzen Gashi, was promoted. As […]

“The Other Serbia” project, implemented by ADMOVERE with the financial support of KFOS, has compiled a collection of the attitudes of Serbian intellectuals who opposed the drastic violations of human rights of the Albanians in Kosovo by the Serb authorities, from the abolition of Kosovo’s autonomy by Serbia on 23 March 1989 to NATO’s entry on 12 June 1999, and […]

Public space has long served to encourage social and cultural exchange and as a domain to both convey power or oppose it. After the Second World War, many public spaces in Kosovo’s urban areas – just as everywhere else in former Yugoslavia – were used as places to commemorate the fight against fascism, to celebrate victory, and to support the […]

The Dealing with the Past Principles is a civic initiative promoted by a group of practitioners and civil society organizations in the field of Dealing with the Past (DwP) that consists of 5 organizations and one expert: Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo, KRCT – Kosova Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims, Integra, Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Kosovo (YIHR KS), BIRN […]

Photo: Media Center Belgrade It seems obvious that the official – and it is official because it’s promoted by local officials – story about the Serbian world is entirely constructed based on the analogy with the story of the Russian world. Which would mean – if we wanted to understand the idea of the Serbian world, we would have to […]