http://www.balkaninsight.com/ BIRN’s Kosovo War Film Screened at Sarajevo University Sarajevo University’s law and political sciences faculties screened BIRN’s documentary ‘The Unidentified’, about the Serbian fighters responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the Kosovo war in 1999. Ajla Gezo BIRN Sarajevo  ‘The Unidentified’, which investigates attacks on Kosovo villages in 1999 and names those involved in an attempted cover-up […]

Source: recom.link For a new exhibition in Pristina, Dutch photographer Willem Poelstra used his own parents’ story as a starting point to show the long-term impact of the 1990s war on ordinary people in Kosovo. When Willem Poelstra, the son of a Jewish mother and a Dutch father who worked for a German company during World War II, first visited […]

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ Jasminko Halilovic Author of War Childhood and Founder of the War Childhood Museum Tensions in the Balkans have reached a height not seen in the region since the end of the war in Kosovo in 1999. At the same time, we are building a museum in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina to promote peace. Are we as naive as […]

Source: ictj.org Roger Duthie and Paul Seils As the refugee crisis deepens, does action on transitional justice issues have to wait for peace? A new paper explores what sort of consultation and documentation work can be done now, while conflict is ongoing, to shape outcomes moving forward. As many European countries were beginning to emerge from the depths of the […]

Source: http://www.balkaninsight.com/   War victims are launching an appeal in The Hague, calling for the Netherlands to be held responsible for the deaths of all the Bosniaks from Srebrenica who were killed in July 1995. Denis Dzidic, BIRN, Sarajevo The Mothers of Srebrenica and Zepa Enclaves victims’ group will launch an appeal on Thursday in The Hague against a 2014 verdict […]

Source: recom.link Author: Nadim Khoury In the last twenty years the concept of political reconciliation has gained currency amongst political and social theorists. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the democratic transitions of several South American countries and other similar cases introduced this seemingly foreign concept to our contemporary political lexicon. Reconciliation typically refers to attempts for divided societies […]

Source: http://www.balkaninsight.com/   The Pristina authorities will consider restoring a monument celebrating Serb and Albanian anti-fascist cooperation in WWII after a one-man protest by the head of the Union of Montenegrins in Kosovo. Die Morina/ BIRN/Pristina         The head of the Union of Montenegrins in Kosovo, Slobodan Vujicic, said that the Pristina municipality has promised to examine the […]

Source: recom.link By Refik Hodzic, ICTJ “We’ve gotten used to the conflict; and that habit has created a vicious situation in which many prefer the certainty of war – with its clear rules and predictable risks, with the dead being a burden for others, with its hate routines and well-defined enemies – than the uncertainty of peace. The decision ahead […]

Source: recom.link A discussion on Srebrenica was held as part of the Clinton Global Initiative gathering in New York, in which Aleksandar Vucic and Camil Durakovic took part. B92 reporter said that the debate “The Balkans – 20 Years Later” was moderated by Bill Clinton, while the first to speak was Advika Ibrahimovic who survived the Srebrenica genocide. She told […]

Source: Kosovo 2.0 BY DANNY WILKINSON – SEPTEMBER 17, 2016 Full house debates conflict-related sexual violence at K2.0. When reflecting upon the Kosovo war of 1998-9, men are often portrayed as heroes, while women are reduced to victims; despite roles as leaders, fighters and activists, women remain excluded from the broader narrative, while the reality of men as victims is rarely acknowledged. […]

Source: http://www.balkaninsight.com/ People’s memories of a huge anti-war concert in Sarajevo in 1991 are being collected for a project which also acts as a warning about the dangers of nationalism in contemporary Europe, its creator says. Sasa Dragojlo BIRN Belgrade When the war in the former Yugoslavia started in 1991, 14-year-old Serb Danijel Visevic was a thousand miles away in the German city […]

Source: http://www.balkaninsight.com/ Amid heightened regional tensions, prosecutors from Bosnia, Croatia and Montenegro met to show commitment to achieving justice for war crimes victims, the Hague Tribunal’s chief prosecutor said. Ajla Gezo BIRN Sarajevo Prosecutors meeting in Brijuni, Croatia. Photo: Bosnian prosecution The 10th Annual Regional Conference of War Crimes Prosecutors on Monday in Brijuni in Croatia was a gesture of commitment […]