University of Prishtina and forumZFD Kosovo programme invite proposals for an international conference—to be held in Prishtina 20-22 September 2018—on the topic of dealing with the past and transitional justice. The Conference aims to bring together scholars from diverse academic fields and practitioners who are working from different thematic and theoretical paradigms to explore approaches to dealing with the past […]

An interview with Joanna Hanson and Shkelzen Gashi: After the presentation of the NGO New Perspektiva project “Multi-perspective History Teaching in Kosovo” in August 2017, we asked Joanna and Shkelzen some questions, as we wanted to know more about their research and the findings. B.P: Joanna and Shkelzen, in your project you have analysed how various events in Kosovo-Serbian history […]

Marijana Toma In armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, between 1991-2001, more than 130,000 persons lost their lives, several million became refugees or internally displaced persons, and we are still looking for approximately 10,000 missing persons. Tens of thousands of people suffered as victims of different war crimes committed in these conflicts: mass killings, enforced disappearances, systematic rape and other […]

Dealing with the past is part of various programs at the University of Prishtina, although there could be much more done. Here are some insights and voices the university’s faculty, collected by Arbër Selmani October 1 this year marked the 20th anniversary of protests started in Prishtina by students who were fought by the macabre regime of that time. In […]

Children have the desire to learn in diversity, that is why we should support and strengthen multi-ethnic schools, not only in Macedonia but everywhere, argues Kristina Atovska. To create a responsible and peaceful multi-ethnic society, education as a socialization factor should be a priority in policy making. In a country like Macedonia, the need for an integrated education, which strengthens […]

The instrumentalisation of education to create stereotypes of Albanians as “dangerous” is not entirely unintentional. Paranoiacs need an alibi to justify discriminatory policies and to cleanse their consciences that has been soiled by propaganda that renders Macedonia dangerous. It is almost three decades now since Macedonia gained its independence, as a pluralist and democratic country. However, these years have not […]

Our author, Dardan Hoti, met a very strong woman, who turned her house into a museum to fight against oblivion. No voices are heard besides lady of the house, Ferdonije Qerkezi. Although it is not her profession, now she works as a guide. Often, the voice betrays her, inside her very home, which she has now officially named a museum. […]