For the past three years, Amer Delic, Dalmir Miskovic, Cedomir Glavas and Tamara Zrnovic have been putting up memorial signs at unmarked places of wartime suffering in a series of guerrilla actions across Bosnia and Herzegovina, trying to send a message that every victim deserves respect. The activists argue that memorialisation still depends on political will in the Balkans, where […]

It is our pleasure to invite you to the regional academic conference "Politics of building peace in the region: burdens from the past, visions for the future", which will be held at the Faculty of political science in Sarajevo, from 19 to 22 October 2017. Conference participants will discuss about the following topics: Ethno-national interpretations of Bosnia and Herzegovina; Building peace in contemporary […]

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of student demonstration of 1997 in Kosovo, Alter Habitus – Institute for Studies in Society and Culture, Center for Southeast European Studies (University of Graz) and University of Prishtina are organizing a conference on social movements in Kosovo, during and after socialism. Scholars of social sciences and humanities, civil society activists, artists and […]

Stories of women survivors of torture during the last war in Kosovo (10/10) My sister, sister-in-law, cousins and I About 17 women were assembled by a group of paramilitaries in a city in Kosova. The most beautiful women from the neighborhood were assembled, according to the witness. They were sent to a school in a nearby village. According to the […]

As of the upcoming Wednesday (Sep. 13, 2017), in the next 10 working days, DwP-Balkans will publish an oral history interview with a survivor of sexual violence each day, taken from the memory book "I want to be heard: Memory book with stories of women survivors of torture during the last war in Kosovo”. The aim of the project is to […]

Source: balkaninsight.com Photo: Deblokada A new feature film made by a Bosnian war veteran dramatically explores the minds of men who fought in the 1990s and how it affected them psychologically and emotionally. Igor Spaic BIRN Sarajevo At a remote hotel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a group of veterans who fought on opposing sides during the Balkan wars have come together for […]

Source: trialinternational.org The ICTY may not have brought the desired reconciliation in BiH, but its influence and legacy provides a crucial basis for future endeavors. An op-ed by Selma Korjenic. THE LAST-RESORT TRIBUNAL In 1993, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established in The Hague (Netherlands). Tasked with the prosecution of the highest-ranked suspects from across the […]

The Sarajevo Film Festival continues to provide a platform to help shed light on the consequences of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and for using film to bring important stories related to these events to wider audiences. The aim of the Dealing with the Past and True Stories Market projects is to increase awareness, dialogue and knowledge, and has […]

Source: http://safejournalists.net The Western Balkan’s Regional Platform for Advocating Media Freedom and Journalists’ Safety, representing more than 7800 members, strongly condemns death threat to journalist Dragan Bursac and welcomes the prompt reaction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Republika Srpska, who arrested a person who threatened journalist from Banja Luka. Dragan Bursac was faced with death threats because of his article […]

As a local from the Prijedor region, I hear a lot of stories of how things were before the conflict of the 1990s, what happened during the war, and how things should be in the distant future. People rarely say what can be done today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. We are caught in a never-ending circle of arguments […]

Source: http://www.bbc.com Flush with success, students in Bosnia have vowed to continue their struggle against ethnic segregation in schools. At the weekend, the regional government dropped plans to force students in the town of Jajce into two ethnically based schools after a year-long campaign. The Jajce students were given a hero’s welcome by pupils from other towns as they arrived […]