With deep sorrow, we share the news of the passing of Mr. Bajram Qerkini. Bajram Qerkini was the Executive Director of the Missing Persons Resource Center and a long-term partner and colleague of Pro Peace in Kosovo. His passing leaves an immense void in the ongoing efforts for truth-finding and reconciliation in Kosovo. Through his tireless work, Mr. Qerkini became […]

Dr. Feride Rushiti, a prominent human rights advocate from and executive director of the Kosovar Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims (KRCT) has been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. This nomination, proposed by Swedish Member of Parliament Magnus Jacobsson, recognizes Feride’s and KRCT‘s significant contributions to justice, human rights and the rehabilitation of survivors of wartime sexual violence in […]

To highlight the importance of preventing the Holocaust and mass atrocities, PCRC, Educators Institute for Human Rights, and forumZFD BiH held a conference in Sarajevo. The event, titled “Lessons from the Past for the Future,” marked the International Day of Remembrance of Holocaust Victims. The conference was opened by Naida Hota-Muminović, Minister of the Ministry of Education of Sarajevo Canton, […]

The ban on the Serbian-Kosovan festival “Mirëdita, Dobar Dan!” is a serious setback for the efforts to promote dialog and mutual understanding in the region, forumZFD comments. Yesterday, just a few hours before the planned start, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia banned the festival “Mirëdita, Dobar Dan!” (Albanian and Serbian for “Good day”) in Belgrade. A written order […]

Nikola Vučić Published in Association Network for Building Peace As a visiting scholar in Beirut, Lebanon, in fall 2023, I often found myself enjoying discussions with various actors on the challenges of peacebuilding in this multi-confessional country – particularly in a city that was once known as the Paris of the Middle East. However, these conversations with representatives of different […]

Terms of Reference (ToR) for “Regional Research on Sound Art, Dealing with the Past, and Public Spaces within the framework of the project Landscapes of Repair”

From September 25 to 29, 2023, forumZFD Kosovo held a workshop on “Sound, Memory, and Public Places” in cooperation with the Centre for Narrative Practice in Prishtina/Kosovo and Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) at the University of Arts London, and the Shortwave Collective. The workshop was part of forumZFD’s collaborative and transnational project Landscapes of Repair which was […]

WARM Foundation / WARM Academy5th edition TELLING THE STORY IN TIMES OF CRISISOPEN CALL Sarajevo, 10-15 July 2023Application deadline: 25 June 2023 Dear Sir/Madam, We are delighted to inform you about the upcoming 5th edition of the WARM Academy, organized by the WARM Foundation. The WARM Academy is a multidisciplinary educational program that aims to explore and showcase cutting-edge approaches, […]

A NOVEL DEDICATED TO “DEALING WITH THE PAST” Dina Greenberg’s trauma-informed writing, research, and teaching gives voice to survivors of war, displacement, and sexual violence. Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and The Millions, her publications include NERMINA’S CHANCE, a novel that begins in 1992 Bosnia. After her family is murdered and she is raped by Serbian soldiers, […]

Together with our partners from RadioMOF, we spoke with Dmytro Kovbasyuk, an activist from Odessa, Ukraine. On the podcast, you can hear more about the current political situation in Ukraine, the challenges for the common people during these difficult times and peace work during the times of armed conflict.

Opening of the exhibition PËRPARA on 24 January 2023 at 19.00 at Galeria 17 The exhibition is based on forumZFD – Kosovo‘s research on space, sound and memory within the framework of the Landscapes of Repair project and is been realized in cooperation with Shtatëmbëdhjetë PËRPARA 24/01 – 24/03/2023 There is an interesting ambiguity in Albanian culture which affects the way in which the physical and temporal […]

INTERVIEW WITH EDITA TAHIRI In this interview Dafina Lata talks to Edita Tahiri, who was part of delegation at the Peace Conference in Rambouillet and Chief Negotiator of the normalization dialogue with Serbia in Brussels from 2011 to 2017. Ms. Tahiri, we will first speak about times in the ‘90s. How do you recall that time? Tahiri: The 1990s were a […]