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Suppressed siege of Bihać region

Just as during all other years, the recent news about the 26th anniversary of the beginning of siege of Bihać region went unnoticed. It was mentioned only briefly in the local media. The first associations that I have in case of such anniversaries and memories of the siege are shrapnels that missed me by a few centimetres, exploding shells, deaths […]

Anniversaries

”Why should we be writing about it, there is nothing new there… as compared to others. Montenegro basically has not participated in the war at all”, said a colleague recently, an experienced journalist who works for a high-circulation daily newspaper, while answering the question why war crimes, in case of which light has never been fully shed on and which […]

How can arts and culture contribute to dealing with difficult pasts and to reconciliation in Europe?

Source: Memorylab Seminar cycle for teachers, museum professionals, NGO-representatives and artists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France and Germany. 30 September – 6 October 2018: First seminar in Germany; Spring 2019: Second seminar in France; Fall 2019: Third seminar in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. Joint Memory Lab-project organized by Max-Mannheimer-Study-Centar Dachau (Magdalena Geier), Memorial de Rivesaltes (Elodie Montes), History […]

OPEN CALL – INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON CONTEMPORARY ART FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Sarajevo, June 25th-30th 2018 Application deadline: May 28th 2018 Kuma International, with the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in partnership with the Bosniak Institute – Adil Zulfikarpašić Foundation, the WARM Foundation and Brodac Gallery, presents a one-week intensive course on contemporary art from Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on visual art, design, photography, film and theatre from a […]

In the shadow of a diplomatic war

Photo: Rade Vilimonović At the moment of publication of the EU Progress Report for Serbia in which Serbia was requested, among other things, to ”demonstrate stronger commitment to the resolution of the war crimes legacy and foster mutual trust and reconciliation”, there was an ongoing verbal war between Serbian and Croatian politicians. By reacting to a provocation of the Defence Minister, […]

Academic Conference – Revisiting Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice in the Balkans

University of Prishtina and forumZFD Kosovo programme invite proposals for an international conference—to be held in Prishtina 20-22 September 2018—on the topic of dealing with the past and transitional justice. The Conference aims to bring together scholars from diverse academic fields and practitioners who are working from different thematic and theoretical paradigms to explore approaches to dealing with the past […]

These societies are proving on a daily basis and in every sense that they have not faced the past at all

There is a vast number of reasons for a text with such a headline, because such reasons appear on an almost daily basis. We could have written about all of this also following the Mladić judgment, just as we could have done so after the judgments in case of officials of Herzeg-Bosnia or Šešelj.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS SUMMER SCHOOL and PROJECT “CHALLENGE HISTORY 2 – REACT FOR THE FUTURE”

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS SUMMER SCHOOL and PROJECT “CHALLENGE HISTORY 2 – REACT FOR THE FUTURE” 22-28 July2018 Prizren, Kosovo* The Center for Peace and Tolerance (CPT) and its project partners1 are pleased to announce the call for applications for the Summer School of “Challenge History 2 –REACT for the Future”, which will be held from 22nd to 28th July 2018 […]

USHMM Event TEACHING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND MASS ATROCITIES: LESSONS FROM THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE

In cooperation with the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights (EIHR), Forum Civil Peace Service (forumZFD), Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC), and the Sarajevo Faculty of Philosophy Bosnia and Herzegovina is well-known for being politically fragmented where the daily nourished politicization of the past creates divisions along ethnic lines which are strongly present even in our school systems. The memory landscape is […]

Croatia – Facing the past

I was in Ahmići (Bosnia and Herzegovina) with around twenty activists from human rights organisations from Croatia, and then we also honoured the victims in Trusina (Bosnia and Herzegovina). There was a warm welcome in Ahmići, and the local population’s message was as follows: ”You were brave to come here. We thank you for sharing our pain.”

Call for Applications – COURSE: Democracy & Post-Conflict Politics in Bosnia

Project on Peacebuilding is organising a weeklong course examining the history, context, and changing politics of peacebuilding It is now more than twenty five years since the war in Bosnia but the economy is still struggling, the infrastructure is still crumbling, and the political institutions are still stalled in conflict. For the international community, Bosnia is the textbook case for […]

To Each his Own History: Istorija (Serbian), Historija (Bosnian), Povijest (Croatian)

Most people have an opportunity at some point in their life to learn about history as a science of the past which, among other things, focuses on people and everything people did, created and left behind as a legacy. Every secondary school or university student will say that history is life’s torturer rather than teacher, because in our educational system, […]

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