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 […]

Source: cdrsee.org The JHP II’s series of regional launches was concluded in Ljubljana on November 22. The final ‘History of the Future’ event, held at the Museum of Contemporary History, was met with an overwhelmingly successful reception. With a diverse audience consisting of members of the diplomatic corps, international organisations, CSOs, NGOs, journalists, history teachers and students, the two new […]

Piše Erna Mačkić Izvor: balkaninsight.com The UN court in The Hague convicted former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic of the genocide of Bosniaks from Srebrenica, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and sentenced him to life imprisonment. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia found former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic guilty on Wednesday of genocide and crimes […]

The CDRSEE invites you to the official launch of our new Joint History Project Workbooks which will take place on: 22 November 2017 at 09:30 – 12:00 in Ljubljana at the National Museum of Contemporary History   These books are part the Southeast European Joint History Project – an initiative now running for 18 years-which creates supplementary multi-perspective teaching resources for […]

BOOK OF ABSTRACTSConference "Politics of building peace in the region: burdens from the past and visions for the future"

Booklet and agenda of the Conference "Politics of Building Peace in the Region: Burdens from the Past and Visions for the Future", which will be held at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Sarajevo   Download Booklet

For the past three years, Amer Delic, Dalmir Miskovic, Cedomir Glavas and Tamara Zrnovic have been putting up memorial signs at unmarked places of wartime suffering in a series of guerrilla actions across Bosnia and Herzegovina, trying to send a message that every victim deserves respect. The activists argue that memorialisation still depends on political will in the Balkans, where […]

It is our pleasure to invite you to the regional academic conference "Politics of building peace in the region: burdens from the past, visions for the future", which will be held at the Faculty of political science in Sarajevo, from 19 to 22 October 2017. Conference participants will discuss about the following topics: Ethno-national interpretations of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Building peace in contemporary […]

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of student demonstration of 1997 in Kosovo, Alter Habitus – Institute for Studies in Society and Culture, Center for Southeast European Studies (University of Graz) and University of Prishtina are organizing a conference on social movements in Kosovo, during and after socialism. Scholars of social sciences and humanities, civil society activists, artists and […]