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 […]

Photo: Miroslav Vujović Translation: Luna Đorđević I come from Kragujevac. I’m not saying that to get better acquainted with you, but as a reminder that I come from a city where around 2300 people were executed in a war crime. Next year we will be marking eight decades since the mass crime in Šumarice. Those are 80 years of collective […]

When the pandemic started and public gatherings were prohibited, we, activists, were joking that COVID-19 was actually an Antifa virus, since commemorations for ustashas killed in Bleiburg and gatherings of chetniks in Republika Srpska and Serbia were prohibited. Unfortunately, these gatherings were not prohibited due to their Nazi and clero-fascist ideology, but rather due to health-related reasons, just as any […]

At a given moment, when we were unanimously refusing that someone could halt the trend of social, economic and political development, the so-called globalism – it did happen in fact and everything changed overnight! We were locked down not in fear of those who speak differently, who look different or have different beliefs, but in fear of ourselves and of […]

These past few months have found us humans cooped up in our private spaces, be they large family homes, tiny apartments or shared accommodation. The global pandemic hit pause on ‘regular life’, creating this new state of being, unimagined and alien to many of us. Schools are closed, jobs have been lost, and travel is restricted, leaving many of us […]

The development of the concept of transitional justice represents one of the most dramatic events in the legal political science. We can rarely find another concept or theory in the legal political science which managed to develop with such a speed as is the case with the concept of traditional justice. In less than 60 years, the concept of transitional […]

Translation: Luna Đorđević For the media, the past is an insurmountable challenge. It is like a monolith still standing ‘somewhere out there’ which they choose whether and how to deal with. The entire universe of non-linear processes, events and experiences is not actually somewhere out there, it is a part of our everyday lives. And, as William Faulkner said: “The […]

Picture: Oštra Nula Every May 09, we have been celebrating the day of victory over fascism in our region for 75 years, but also throughout the world, or this is what we naively believe it to be. When democratic systems are facing a crisis, nationalism becomes extreme, and historical revisionism becomes the key tool in the hands of those who […]

Photo credits:  Fitim Gashi Trigger Warning: This article contains graphic language depicting sexual violence against women that took place during the war in Kosovo. A member of the parliament caused a scandal with a photograph on the day the Assembly of Kosovo adopted the Resolution on Serbia’s genocide in Kosovo. In May of last year, MP Flora Brovina shocked the […]

Photo credits: Vladan Cvetković Social media is a powerful tool of the 21st century. Although its positive aspects are immense, it is often abused and used for propaganda and manipulation. A large amount of lies, disinformation and insinuation reach great numbers of people through social media networks. This is especially true of Twitter and Facebook, where problematic interpretations of the […]

Photo credits: Katerina Smileva The dilemma of whether the influence of online media is more positive or negative, will plague us for as long as these platforms exist. The fact is that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social networks have changed our lives. They have altered how we report on and share information. From one side, this is positive, as […]

Photo credits: Fahri Hiseni It is difficult to comment on interethnic relations in any society and doing so from a Balkan perspective is no exception. One reason for this is the complex historical context within which the countries of this peninsula exist. In each of the Balkan societies today, there is a great appetite for looking back at the distant […]