As the recent protests in North Macedonia show, cultural issues can be as divisive and disruptive as political issues. In the case of North Macedonia and Bulgaria, old political disputes over territory are virtually non-existent in mainstream discourse, both countries recognize each other’s borders and no modern Bulgarian political parties or organizations seek the incorporation of North Macedonia into the […]

It was rightly said: the siege and fall of Vukovar represent the final act in Yugoslavia’s death. Final because Yugoslavia was already sentenced to death in 1972 at the latest, when the bearers of the neoconservative (structurally neostalinist) turn triumphed, and the consequences could be seen in the complete removal of sense or meaning from the dominant proclamations and slogans […]

In the framework of the festival “Mirëdita – Dobar dan”, which is held in honour of the actor Bekim Fehmiu, with the purpose of promoting the coexistence and tolerance between Serbs and Albanians, a summary of excerpts from the interviews of the architect, urbanist, urbanologist, idealist, Professor Bogdan Bogdanović, selected and prepared for publication by Shkëlzen Gashi, was promoted. As […]

“The Other Serbia” project, implemented by ADMOVERE with the financial support of KFOS, has compiled a collection of the attitudes of Serbian intellectuals who opposed the drastic violations of human rights of the Albanians in Kosovo by the Serb authorities, from the abolition of Kosovo’s autonomy by Serbia on 23 March 1989 to NATO’s entry on 12 June 1999, and […]

Public space has long served to encourage social and cultural exchange and as a domain to both convey power or oppose it. After the Second World War, many public spaces in Kosovo’s urban areas – just as everywhere else in former Yugoslavia – were used as places to commemorate the fight against fascism, to celebrate victory, and to support the […]

The Dealing with the Past Principles is a civic initiative promoted by a group of practitioners and civil society organizations in the field of Dealing with the Past (DwP) that consists of 5 organizations and one expert: Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo, KRCT – Kosova Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims, Integra, Youth Initiative for Human Rights – Kosovo (YIHR KS), BIRN […]

Photo: Media Center Belgrade It seems obvious that the official – and it is official because it’s promoted by local officials – story about the Serbian world is entirely constructed based on the analogy with the story of the Russian world. Which would mean – if we wanted to understand the idea of the Serbian world, we would have to […]

Darko Dimitrijević is attending an Albanian language course, yet he says he is still unable to communicate fluently. He was born in Gorazhdec/Goraždevac, a village with a Serb majority in the Municipality of Peja/Peć. Since the war of 1998-99, it is one of the few Serb villages in this part of Kosovo.  There, the legacy of the past is felt […]

“Everything older than ten and younger than seventy-five will die in Šibenik. And we will not leave a single house standing…”, said the high-ranking officer of the Yugoslav People’s Army at the time, and now a convict serving time for war crimes, Ratko Mladić. It was exactly thirty years ago, in early fall of 1991, not half a decade before […]

On September 9, 2021, the children’s section of the library “Dositej Novaković” in Negotin was scheduled to hold a promotion for the book by Veselin Šljivančanin “This is My Land This is Where I Command” (Ovo je moja zemlja ovde ja komandujem). Although in the end the library cancelled this event, the question remained whether war criminals had a place […]

Photo: Archive of the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo Abductions and forced disappearances are almost regularly used as a strategy for spreading terror during conflicts or by dictatorships. Forced disappearances have become a global problem and they are not limited to a certain region of the world, but occur in almost all conflicts, even internal ones, and they are also used […]

Photo: YIHR In Croatia there are now two dominant political approaches to confronting Operation Storm and its consequences which took place in August 1995, led by two of the highest state institutions – the Government and the President. Through coordinated public appearances, the government, led by HDZ and the minority partner, the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS), has directed the […]