Source: http://www.bbc.com Flush with success, students in Bosnia have vowed to continue their struggle against ethnic segregation in schools. At the weekend, the regional government dropped plans to force students in the town of Jajce into two ethnically based schools after a year-long campaign. The Jajce students were given a hero’s welcome by pupils from other towns as they arrived […]

Izvor: http://www.balkaninsight.com​ Sven Milekic BIRN Mostar Photo by: Sven Milekić The monumental Partisans’ Cemetery in the Bosnian town of Mostar, where Yugoslav anti-fascist WWII fighters were buried, has been abandoned to decay, a victim of changing attitudes to history in the 1990s.  “The Partisans’ Cemetery? Yeah, Communists come there for their annual commemoration in… I forgot the month. Tourists? Some come, not many, […]

Summer University Srebrenica is a program for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers to conduct research projects on topics related to Genocide, Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Studies, and Human Rights. Through dialogue, research, and first-hand experience with the aftermath of Genocide and the obstacles in terms of Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding, the Summer University Srebrenica aims at understanding how such […]

Source: balkaninsight The crisis of democratic governance in the Balkans is obvious. But the overt turn towards authoritarianism in countries like Macedonia and Serbia is being accelerated by the still more significant crisis of democratic norms and constitutional government in the West. These two dynamics are intrinsically linked – as is any hope of resolving them. Take the recent assault […]

Call for Participants and Abstracts The Faculty of Political Science of the University of Sarajevo and forumZFD are organizing a two-day academic conference titled “The Politics of Building Peace in the Region: Burdens of the Past and Visions for the Future”. The conference will be held at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo from 19-22 October 2017. Keynote speakers […]

A weeklong course examining the history, context, and changing politics of peacebuilding It is now more than twenty 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 post-conflict peacebuilding, but what has actually […]

Source: http://www.balkaninsight.com   Anti-smoking warning “Smoking kills” on a packet of cigarettes in Bosnia, written completely the same in all languages, with the only difference is that the Serbian warning is written in the Cyrillic script. Photo: Facebook/Sava Mandic    A declaration that Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are all variations of the same language has annoyed conservatives, but received […]

Source:balkaninsight Photo: Srebrenica town centre, Samun Benutzer/Wikicommons   Mladen Grujicic, Srebrenica’s first Serb mayor, says he wants to look beyond the trauma of war and the bitterly-contested genocide debate to seek a better future for the depopulated, impoverished town. “When people see things going forwards, they will stop going back to the past. The past has only created conflict and […]

Source: http://www.balkaninsight.com Sven Milekić, BIRN, Zagreb Croatia’s tourist guide association told BIRN that it is working alongside the country’s tourism ministry to change the regulations on qualifying examinations for guides to include specialised tuition on the 1990s war. “We see tourist guides as a link between tourism and cultural heritage; without a well-educated guide, there can be no cultural tourism. And […]

Source: recom.link By Denisa Kostovicova* ABSTRACT Contemporary conflicts are seldom contained within nation states. The cross-border nature of violence has prompted scholars to call for a regional approach to transitional justice (TJ). This article furthers our understanding of the regional dimension of postconflict justice by addressing the puzzle of whether discourse in regional-level debates is different from that in national- […]