Foto: Majlinda Hoxha, Interview with Dea Dedi Once Upon a Time and Never Again is currently being exhibited at the Documentation Centre of Kosovo (DCK) in Prishtina, Kosovo. DCK isa project of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) Kosovo, a local organization that has been collecting data on human rights violations since 1997. Established in 2017, DCK is an exhibition and […]

Foto: Arsim Gerxhaliu Arsim Gerxhaliu In 1994, I decided to study forensics in Prishtina, unaware that I would live through a war. Since 1989, Kosovo had been suffering from Serbia’s violent measures, and all Albanians were excluded from public institutions, including schools and colleges. We taught students in a parallel system, in private homes using slides. This lasted until 1999. […]

ORAL STATEMENT BEFORE THE SECURITY COUNCIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS ON 5 NOVEMBER 2019 BY SELMA KORJENIĆ, HEAD OF PROGRAM AT TRIAL INTERNATIONAL IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA  Thank you Madam President, and good morning from Sarajevo! Madam President, Excellences, ladies and gentlemen, My name is Selma Korjenić, and I am Head of Program at TRIAL International in Bosnia and Herzegovina, […]

As researchers in the guise of cartographers, we set out to map the stories of Pristina citizens that capture the history of the city in the past one hundred years. Having conducted twenty-nine oral history interviews, as well as having consulted over one hundred interviews from the Oral History Kosovo digital archive (oralhistorykosovo.org) and other public and privately owned photographic […]

In Bosnia, we don’t really care about gender equality. We consider it irrelevant because we live in a patriarchal society still heavily influenced by tradition. All three nations from these regions have a negative attitude towards women, whether due to the strong influence of religion or some other factor, it is difficult to say. Imposed beliefs through the ages, patriarchal […]

It was my pleasure to participate in the Project on Peacebuilding in Prijedor. The reason for my application was a suggestion from my organization, SVITAC, which I joined in 2012. SVITAC has  worked on peacebuilding in north eastern Bosnia since 1998.  My goal was to present our results and to learn what youth from other areas think about life together […]

In Bosnia, we like to say that there is nothing without memory. But I wonder what memories are left after the 1992-1995 war. A culture of monuments actually includes all the material remains that bear witness to past events in this region. Every day we pass such places: to some the monuments are symbols of suffering and sorrow and for […]

Trnopolje As someone who is from Bosnia and Herzegovina, I was already familiar with what happened in the Prijedor region in 1992. However, it wasn’t until I took part in Most Mira’s Project on Peacebuilding, that I had the chance to visit the actual location of the horror. On day 4 of the project, we visited Trnopolje, where the Youth […]

In the heart of Europe, there’s a country with a tragically history. The country has always served as a bridge between the east and west. If you visit the country for the first time, you will notice its nature, cities, and people who have been living here for centuries. Once upon a time, there was a small village in the northern […]

I always write poetry about love, but this time I decided to write about war. Love and war are often thought of as two completely opposite things but their existence is often intertwined in one way or another. Forgiveness I am standing on the grassEngulfed by the silent past,Red letters spilt on white stoneTell us the story of forgotten bones. […]

On the second day of the project we went to Ljubija to see the once great city, which is now mostly abandoned. It is astonishing to think that Ljubija was once the cultural capital of the region and a much larger city than Prijedor. Zoran Vuckovac took us on a tour through the city while explaining the history of the […]