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OPEN CALL – INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON CONTEMPORARY ART FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Sarajevo, June 25th-30th 2018 Application deadline: May 28th 2018 Kuma International, with the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in partnership with the Bosniak Institute – Adil Zulfikarpašić Foundation, the WARM Foundation and Brodac Gallery, presents a one-week intensive course on contemporary art from Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on visual art, design, photography, film and theatre from a […]

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Academic Conference – Revisiting Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice in the Balkans

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 […]

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS SUMMER SCHOOL and PROJECT “CHALLENGE HISTORY 2 – REACT FOR THE FUTURE”

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS SUMMER SCHOOL and PROJECT “CHALLENGE HISTORY 2 – REACT FOR THE FUTURE” 22-28 July2018 Prizren, Kosovo* The Center for Peace and Tolerance (CPT) and its project partners1 are pleased to announce the call for applications for the Summer School of “Challenge History 2 –REACT for the Future”, which will be held from 22nd to 28th July 2018 […]

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USHMM Event TEACHING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND MASS ATROCITIES: LESSONS FROM THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE

In cooperation with the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights (EIHR), Forum Civil Peace Service (forumZFD), Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC), and the Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy Bosnia and Herzegovina is well-known for being politically fragmented where the daily nourished politicization of the past creates divisions along ethnic lines which are strongly present even in our school systems. The memory landscape is […]

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Call for Applications – COURSE: Democracy & Post-Conflict Politics in Bosnia

Project on Peacebuilding is organising a weeklong course examining the history, context, and changing politics of peacebuilding It is now more than twenty five years since the war in Bosnia but the economy is still struggling, the infrastructure is still crumbling, and the political institutions are still stalled in conflict. For the international community, Bosnia is the textbook case for […]

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History textbooks and dealing with the past in Serbia

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 […]

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When paranoia and propaganda lead education

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 […]

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