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 […]

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 interpretations of the […]

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 is positive, as […]

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 at the distant […]

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 February 1924 […]

In November 1992, my father was killed. I was four years old, and just as any other daughter, I adored my father. He participated in the war that happened in our region and he fought in the belief that he was saving his country, his people, his children. I remember the day when they let my mother know that the […]

Photo: Jelena Diković   On the day when the state of emergency was introduced in Serbia, the Danas daily editor-in-chief introduced the state of emergency in our editorial office, as well. He forbade all the journalists to come to the office, while the entire, so-called technical work is to be done by the editors. We work online by making daily […]

The action takes place two weeks after COVID-19 arrives in Bosnia and Herzegovina. "Are there any flours in the shops?" "None. Missing in Bingo shop, not even in Konzum shop. " "Did I say ten days ago that food supplies should be made?" (angry voice) "But Mom … There’s really no need. They said that the delivery of basic foodstuffs […]

Every time I knock on the doors of families of the missing, the experience is unique. Every repeated knock is accompanied by the conscious fear that I am about to reopen old wounds. The latest experience was not any different than the other times when I have tackled this topic.   Some months ago, I went to meet Ajshe Shehu, […]

Photo: Media Center Belgrade Translation: Luna Đorđević The previous year hasn’t brought many changes when it comes to dealing with the past in Serbia. Everything mostly stayed the same – the inactivity of the Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor, the non-existence of a clear commitment from the government to finally deal with the violent past and the continuation of […]

While in a second it seemed that the ‘invisible enemy’ in BH did not choose between ethnicities, and that now, all Serbs and Bosniaks and Croats have a common enemy or danger – but, that second evaporated before sparking enough to feel any unity. ‘We haven’t learned anything,’ I heard somewhere. ‘All this is reminiscent of war,’ I also heard. […]

A few days ago we were talking with a friend about a family culture of remembrance, and about the conspiracy of silence that exists in almost all families, that is, there is a tacit agreement not to discuss family war. She pointed out that the only time her mother talked about it was when she told her that in all […]