Source: nytimes.com By CARLOTTA GALLMAY 24, 2016   Ethnic Albanians load a tractor with looted goods, taken from former Serb homes, in Peja, Kosovo. June 25, 1999. Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times         Times Insider delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how news, features and opinion come together at The New York Times. In this article, Carlotta Gall, a […]

Source: bbc.com A new museum is documenting the experiences of children during the 1990s Bosnian war by asking people to contribute personal belongings from their childhood. The War Childhood Museum is set to open in Sarajevo this year, and will display items from people who grew up during the 1992-1995 conflict. Among the pieces collected so far is an array of humanitarian […]

Source: recom.link Reconciling after civil conflict increases social capitalbut decreases individual well-being During civil wars, individuals and communities who were previously good neighbors can end up fighting each other. One approach to reknit these sundered social ties is to bring perpetrators and victims together in truth and reconciliation forums. Cilliers et al. found that these forums have helped to reestablish […]

Source: justice-report.com Author: Albina Sorguč BIRN BiH Sarajevo The Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina has charged more than 600 persons with war crimes, and persons sentenced in the final instance were sentenced to 2,087 years of prison. According to the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina, so far convictions were handed down in case of more than 80% of war crimes cases […]

Izvor: recom.link The ICC Detention Centre in Scheveningen, photo: ICC Do perpetrators of genocide and war crimes feel guilty? How do they see international justice? Have trials and tough sanctions changed their perspective, or do they dream of vengeance? Up to now, answers to such questions have been anecdotal. But for four years (2011-2015), lawyer Damien Scalia from the Catholic […]

Source: recom.link David Tolbert, photo Laura Barisonzi I think the work of the ICTY presents a mixed picture. There has been much that has been accomplished, and some very important decisions and judgements have been arrived at that will stand the test of time and, I hope, make a difference to the victims and the historical record in the region […]

Source: slobodnaevropa.org
 Mirsad Behram Even more than 20 years after the wars in former Yugoslavia, in societies of states that resulted from its dissolution, there is mostly no culture of remembrance, but rather a culture of lies and denial, as claimed by some of the more renowned critics of nationalist political elites from the Balkans. During a gathering in Mostar […]

Source: balkans.aljazeera.net Photo: Al Jazeera Author: Mladen Obrenović When they started building peace 11 years ago in a still vulnerable environment, which Sanski Most truly was after a difficult and bloody war, Vahidin Omanović and Mevludin Rahmanović did not even dream that their Peace Building Centre would soon not only extend beyond local and regional borders, but also become a globally […]

Title: "War of Memories. Places of suffering and remembrance of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina" Original Title: “Rat sjećanja. Istraživanje o mjestima stradanja I sjećanja na rat u BiH” Published by: Centar za nenasilnu akciju Sarajevo – Beograd (Centre for Nonviolent Action, Sarajevo-Belgrade) Published: 2016   Before you is a publication developed as part of the project “War Monuments in Bosnia and […]

Press Release: “The Challenge of Commemoration and Holocaust Education” On April 12th and 13th 2016, forumZFD’s Kosovo Peace Education program in cooperation with a Holocaust Education expert from Yad Vashem (Israel) and the Kosovar History Teacher Association organized a workshop on “The Challenge of Commemoration and Holocaust Education” at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Organized by forumZFD Kosovo, […]

On Friday the 22nd of April 2016 forumZFD, Vreme magazine and the Open Society Foundation will host a panel discussion on the topic: „Meeting points: What are the Balkans and what could they be? The panel will be hosted at hotel SIRIUS (Agim Ramadani street), starting at 11 a.m.  This panel discussion will be the second in a serial of […]

Source: Recom.link The long path toward reconciliation can’t be imagined as a sudden turn, after a verdict of a single person. It would rather be a joint effort of the European Union and the civil society in the Balkans, in order to support activities that denounce the mistakes of the past without any bias, and prepare the ground for a […]