The Croatian War of the 1990s, for Croatian political elites, is one of the historical periods often and gladly used to promote crude ethno-nationalism, exploit the suffering of victims, and ignore court-established facts. One event that marked the 1990s and still holds an important place in state commemorations is Operation ‘Pocket ’93’, better known publicly as the military-police operation Medak […]

Do you know letters of self-compassion? We are not talking about goodbye letters of authors parting with their identities and personalities they inherited nor about notes about the end of social and political systems that authors blindly believed into. We are also not talking about fragmented pseudo dramas in which the ego and superego are substitutes for awareness and morality. […]

Philosopher Emil Cioran gives a special status to music in our being-in-the-world. He, with a masterful lucidity, affirms that “we carry in us all the music that we have not heard in our life, which lies in the bottom part of the abyss of memory. All that is musical in us is memory. When we had no name, we must […]

We must immerse ourselves in the atmospheric experience of architecture, where it seems that there is a door hidden that can open us a wider horizon of dealing with the past. Atmospheric architecture (Böhme)[i] immerses us in the sensory aspect of space and, if we invert this approach, we can immerse ourselves in the spatial sense of the past. Consequently, […]

A person’s birthplace plays an important role in identity formation. I personally do not consider Stolac only my home, but also the place in which I became aware of the importance of an active participation in social changes. From the earliest days, I felt the need to fight against injustice and engage for values that I consider to be the […]

There’s nothing more horrifying in the recent history of the Balkans than July 1995 and Srebrenica. No matter how you personally choose to define “horrifying,” “recent history,” and the terms “we” and “us.” Almost everyone active in politics and media in the Balkans, among the creators of public opinion, is deeply aware of this fact. Therefore, every abuse of this […]

The Ministry of Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue of the Government of Serbia announced on July 5th that the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe adopted the Report on Serbia within the sixth monitoring cycle.

He was an eight-year-old boy when “Sima’s Chetniks” killed nine members of his family: six sisters, a two-year-old brother, father and pregnant mother.

Due to its imposing design, function, as well as central location directly across the street from the Government of Serbia, the General Staff building has become a symbol of the 1999 bombing, and everything consciously or subconsciously connected to that event

The current state of affairs best suits the stabilocratic despot Aleksandar Vučić, who, against the backdrop of a gaping vacuum, creates narratives that suit his ongoing need for capital enlargement. In spite of the fact that the current President of the Serbiatrics department is an honored guest and friend of the very people who were leading NATO countries during the […]

What is the music of your past? Is there a song you associate with a particular time of your life? Is there an everyday sound that brings out memories for you? While in conversation about sound’s capacity to evoke memories, music usually comes to mind; this article will explore some ideas behind listening to historic sites and the capacity of […]