The life of a person is more valuable than any book, and the life of books renders persons immortal.   However, I also remember, i.e. see even now the bodies of books crackling on a hot August day in 1992, consumed by the flame of hate. The bodies of dear books were disappearing in the hatred. (an excerpt from a poem […]

The exhibition entitled “Peace with Women’s Face” is a result of cooperation and efforts of the women’s peace movement Mir sa ženskim licem (Peace with Women’s Face) and Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst (forumZFD) to integrate a female perspective in the process of facing the past and peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina and present the women’s side of the story about […]

War is shit that destroys human lives even after peace is established. You will not find this definition of war in any textbook in the Balkans. The histories of the Balkans are full of our glorious victories and their cowardly defeats, our victims and their war criminals, their military superiority countered by our courage and genius. In our histories, you […]

How do we remember traumatic experiences? How do we interpret what happened to us? What happens when all the traumas result from a great evil such as a war? We remember dates, names of streets, sculptures, graveyards, monuments and buildings, marked and unmarked places of suffering through cultural events. Through this exhibition. In addition to documenting the war and post-war reality at the turn of the century, the upcoming exhibition […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Zvornik municipality, where she still lives. She survived the detention camp,  sexual  harassment,  being  a  refugee.  Together  with  her  husband,  a  disabled  war  veteran,  she  reconstructed  their  house,  which  had  been  burned  to  the  ground,  and  restored  their  family  life.  She  bravely  faced  the  criminals  by  testifying  as  an  unprotected witness before the […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić A lawyer and women’s rights activist from Bijeljina. She is the programme director of the citizen’s association for the education of Roma “Otaharin”. Bojana Jovanović was born in Zenica. Her growing up in a harmonious family was interrupted by the war when she was sixteen years old. Family Jovanović, unburdened by ethnic divisions, decided not to leave Zenica, even after […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić A women’s rights activist, the founder of the organisation “Žena BiH” and of a safe house for women and children victims of domestic violence and human trafficking in Mostar. She is one of seven women candidates in Bosnia and Herzegovina proposed for the Nobel prize in the action “Thousand Women for the Nobel Peace Prize’. Azra’s social activism started during […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Livno.  Danka is a women’s rights activist. She lives and works in Bosansko Grahovo. Danka was the youngest of six children of a typical Catholic family. When the war started in 1992, was finishing high school. Her diploma award ceremony took place in a shelter. Due to the war, they moved to Zagreb, and then […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Novi Travnik. A civic rights and peace activist, she is best known for her engagement in the field of women’s rights and association of women. She is the founder of the women’s association “Most” in Višegrad (1998) and the Foundation for Empowerment of Women (2013), where she is currently also holding the position of the foundation’s director. […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Kotor Varoš municipality, Večići village. She survived the war, years as a refugee, the death of her children and serious family and life troubles. She lives in Banja Luka and demonstrates how one can fight domestic violence. Dudija lived in Večići until 1992. During her marriage, she had six children. Her oldest son got killed by […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born on the territory of Srebrenica municipality. Today, she lives and works in Tuzla.  She survived conflict-related sexual violence,  years  as  a  refugee  and  domestic  violence. She got educated, found a job and became an activist advocating the rights of victims of conflict-related sexual violence.   At the beginning of the war,  Edina  Karić,  who  was  […]

Photo: Sanja Vrzić She was born in Tuzla. She is one of the best-known trade union activists in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who fought together with other workers in order for the factory “Dita”, where she worked, not to be shut down. Emina Busuladžić remembers her childhood and growing up in a family, where she was the youngest child, by the wise advice of […]