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Third Regional Short Story Competition Biber

The competition is open to both established and unpublished authors writing in Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian or Serbian. Competition Theme The theme for the first two Biber competitions was reconciliation, but this time we have expanded it. In addition to stories about reconciliation in the context of the aftermath of the wars and violence in the countries of former […]

BIRN Publishes Report on Challenges to Transitional Justice

Source: balkaninsight.com The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network published a major report on post-conflict justice in the former Yugoslavia, highlighting regional challenges in dealing with issues like war crimes prosecutions, missing persons and victims’ participation in judicial processes. BIRN’s newly-published report, ‘After the ICTY: Accountability, Truth and Justice in the Former Yugoslavia’, maps out current challenges in regional cooperation over war crimes prosecutions […]

In a Divided Bosnia, Segregated Schools Persist

TRAVNIK, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The school in this medieval town is divided by a flimsy metal fence and the legacy of war. Each day, children stream into the same school building, only to study separately, using separate textbooks, while learning in different languages. The ethnic Croatians from the suburbs are taught in the right side of the building. They […]

Peace must be around you and in you

Interview with Kemal Šalaka, peace activist On Saturday, November 10, we had the opportunity to host Kemal Šalaka, a peace activist and a former under-aged soldier of the Army of Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war of the 90s. In a very open discussion, Kemal talked about his motives to become a soldier during the war, to demobilize […]

Open call for participants in the project 1918-2018: Building peace – lessons from World War One

1918-2018: Building peace – lessons from World War One Youth seminar Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Germany, Sarajevo 7-13/11/2018 Organization: Youth Initiative for Human Rights Bosnia and Herzegovina, Forum ZFD Bosnia and Herzegovina, in cooperation with the Embassy of Germany in Bosnia and Herzegovina and of the Embassy of France in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the support of the German […]

From a culture of war to a culture of peace

Conflicts and wars never and nowhere happen accidentally, although their motives and justifications might seem sudden, hasty and completely banal. No matter how much peace advocates are appalled by this fact, wars have their internal logic, they are deliberate, even in those cases when we believe that complete psychopaths initiate them. It is important to keep in mind the truth […]

Border and Belonging

The maps of region, which used to show the borders of the former common state Yugoslavia, are now full of thick lines marking the borders of independent states as well as thin lines marking their internal units (entities, cantons, regions). Dilemmas are still present in case of the thickness of the line framing Kosovo and it is uncertain whether such […]

Revisiting Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice in the Balkans

Revisiting Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice in the Balkans This conference brings together scholars from diverse academic fields, and practitioners working from different thematic and theoretical paradigms, to explore approaches to dealing with the past and transitional justice in the Yugoslav successor states and beyond. Agenda

Transitional Justice: Theory versus Reality

CONCEPT The concept of transitional justice emerged from the international human rights movement and became popular in the last two decades. Initially, the term transitional justice referred to the judicial processing of human rights violations committed by dictatorial regimes during transition to a democratic society. Lately, the term transitional justice has begun referring to the prosecution of war crimes and […]

The theatre group challenging Bosnia’s ethnic divisions

I was imprisoned in Omarska concentration camp. There’s a growing danger it could happen again. That’s why I’m working with young people to help stop it. During the 1990s, I witnessed first-hand the horrific consequences of the rise of ethnic nationalism in my country, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I was born in Prijedor, one of the regions most severely affected during […]

Learning lessons from a violent past for a peaceful future

Seminar cycle for educators, teachers, student-teachers, museum professionals and NGO-representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, France and Germany. 30.9.-6.10. 2018: First seminar in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Spring 2019: Second seminar in France; Fall 2019: Third seminar in Germany Joint Memory Lab-project organized by the Forum ZFD Bosnia and Herzegovina (Soraja Zagic / Michel Parente), the History Museum Bosnia and Herzegovina (Tijana […]

Jajce – students fighting against ethnic divisions

In May 2016, the media throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina published an ”unbelievable” piece of news: a group of students of the Secondary Vocational School ”Jajce” went out into the streets of the small Central Bosnia town, which has an almost identical proportion of Bosniaks and Croats, with very few persons defining themselves as belonging to other categories, connected the flags […]

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