The year 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina… One gets up and sees that everything that one has known, all ideals, dreams, love and hopes are disappearing. One feels something evil in the air, in people around one. And one would prefer to run away, but cannot, because one is not a person to run, but rather a person to fight. […]

The exhibition entitled "Peace with Women’s Face" is a result of cooperation and efforts of the women’s peace movement Mir sa ženskim licem (Peace with Women’s Face) and Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst (forumZFD) to integrate a female perspective in the process of facing the past and peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina and present the women’s side of the story about […]

War is shit that destroys human lives even after peace is established. You will not find this definition of war in any textbook in the Balkans. The histories of the Balkans are full of our glorious victories and their cowardly defeats, our victims and their war criminals, their military superiority countered by our courage and genius. In our histories, you […]

How do we remember traumatic experiences? How do we interpret what happened to us? What happens when all the traumas result from a great evil such as a war? We remember dates, names of streets, sculptures, graveyards, monuments and buildings, marked and unmarked places of suffering through cultural events. Through this exhibition. In addition to documenting the war and post-war […]

Photo: Miroslav Vujović Translation: Luna Đorđević I come from Kragujevac. I’m not saying that to get better acquainted with you, but as a reminder that I come from a city where around 2300 people were executed in a war crime. Next year we will be marking eight decades since the mass crime in Šumarice. Those are 80 years of collective […]

When the pandemic started and public gatherings were prohibited, we, activists, were joking that COVID-19 was actually an Antifa virus, since commemorations for ustashas killed in Bleiburg and gatherings of chetniks in Republika Srpska and Serbia were prohibited. Unfortunately, these gatherings were not prohibited due to their Nazi and clero-fascist ideology, but rather due to health-related reasons, just as any […]

At a given moment, when we were unanimously refusing that someone could halt the trend of social, economic and political development, the so-called globalism – it did happen in fact and everything changed overnight! We were locked down not in fear of those who speak differently, who look different or have different beliefs, but in fear of ourselves and of […]

These past few months have found us humans cooped up in our private spaces, be they large family homes, tiny apartments or shared accommodation. The global pandemic hit pause on ‘regular life’, creating this new state of being, unimagined and alien to many of us. Schools are closed, jobs have been lost, and travel is restricted, leaving many of us […]

The development of the concept of transitional justice represents one of the most dramatic events in the legal political science. We can rarely find another concept or theory in the legal political science which managed to develop with such a speed as is the case with the concept of traditional justice. In less than 60 years, the concept of transitional […]

Translation: Luna Đorđević For the media, the past is an insurmountable challenge. It is like a monolith still standing ‘somewhere out there’ which they choose whether and how to deal with. The entire universe of non-linear processes, events and experiences is not actually somewhere out there, it is a part of our everyday lives. And, as William Faulkner said: “The […]

Picture: Oštra Nula Every May 09, we have been celebrating the day of victory over fascism in our region for 75 years, but also throughout the world, or this is what we naively believe it to be. When democratic systems are facing a crisis, nationalism becomes extreme, and historical revisionism becomes the key tool in the hands of those who […]

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 shocked the […]