Educational institutions have become places of intolerance in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That’s why initiatives like the “Education for Peace” project are very much needed, writes Aleksandra Letić, programme manager of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights Although the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended 22 years ago, its consequences are still very visible in all segments of society. Painful war […]

It’s not only when it comes to the subject of history that the ethnic fragmentation of schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina is evident. How to move on from there? Let teachers and students take the lead, suggests Melisa Forić.   The answer to the question “how to teach history in Bosnia and Herzegovina?” is not easy to formulate, at least not […]

A coalition campaigning for the establishment of the RECOM regional fact-finding commission on the 1990s wars said ex-Yugoslav states could sign an agreement committing their support in July. The Coalition for RECOM announced on Monday that five Western Balkan states – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia – are likely to sign an agreement to establish the new […]

Author: Leon Runje It is widely considered that during the communist period corruption in the Western Balkans was widespread, but was, for the most part, petty. During this period administrative corruption was prevalent, meaning that it took the form of low level bureaucratic corruption of state and public institutions as opposed to the corruption of centralized government bodies and agencies […]

2018 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN COMPARATIVE CONFLICT STUDIES  June 24 to July 1, 2018Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS) at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK),Singidunum University, Belgrade The Center for Comparative Conflict Studies (CFCCS) at the Faculty of Media and Communications (FMK), Singidunum University invites you to apply for the 9th International Summer School in Comparative Conflict Studies. […]

After almost a quarter of a century, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia closed down in December, after convicting 90 people, most of them for wartime crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina. But its closing did not pass off without controversy, as it handed down two of its most important judgments just weeks before shutting its doors. In November, […]

On 15 December 2017 ‘Okruzenje’, Balkans’ unique democratic media initiative, celebrated its 6 years of broadcast across the region in a momentous promotional event and episode filming in Tirana. The event, organized for the first time ever in Tirana, gathered numerous visitors, including members of the diplomatic corps, media representatives, longtime friends of the series, former Albanian guests of the […]

Kosovo government minister Dalibor Jevtic says Serbs and Albanians need to build trust – and that Kosovo Serb children should learn the Albanian language to ensure better communication for the future. “The key word today in Kosovo is trust, which has to be built both between the two communities and towards [state] institutions,” Dalibor Jevtic, the Minister for Communities and […]

The CDRSEE invites you to join the filming of a special episode of ‘Okruzenje/Vicinities’ in Tirana that will take place on: December 15, at 11.00 am, at Tirana International Hotel On the occasion of shooting a special episode of the successful regional television talk show ‘Okruzenje/Vicinities’, the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe and the European Fund for […]