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Call for Applications: Sub-granting programme for investigative journalism

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Independent Journalists` Association of Vojvodina (IJAV)Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN Kosovo)Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst Ev (forumZFD) Project “Ordinary people: Missing rights – finding solutions”Sub-granting programme for investigative journalism We are seeking local media from Serbia to contribute to freedom of expression and reductionof hate speech in the media in Serbia and Kosovo through investigative reporting on theprotection of […]

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Kosovo Honours Female War Victims on Women’s Day

Source: balkaninsight.com To mark International Women’s Day, the Kosovo authorities paid homage to female war victims and screened a documentary in parliament about sexual violence during the 1999 conflict. Petrit Collaku, BIRN, Pristina Photo: Tributes were paid to female war victims at a monument near parliament. Photo: Kosovo parliament. Kosovo’s parliament on Tuesday screened a documentary about the women who suffered sexual violence […]

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NICOLAS MOLL: A positive hero for everyone?
The memorialization of Srđan Aleksić 
in post-Yugoslav countries

Source: CODA • Essays • Open Academic Network Since the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), different attempts have been undertaken, especially by civil society actors, to promote stories of interethnic help and rescue which occurred during the war. Svetlana Broz published the book Good People in an Evil Timein 1999, and, with her NGO Gariwo, promotes such stories through lectures, films and educational […]

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Kosovo High Schools to Teach Transitional Justice

Kosovo’s education minister Arsim Bajrami said that transitional justice will be taught as part of the high school curriculum starting from September 2017. Doruntina Baliu, BIRN, Pristina Photo: Humanitarian Law Centre round table discussion on transitional justice. Photo: BIRN. Education minister Bajrami on Thursday accepted a proposal from the Humanitarian Law Centre office in Kosovo for transitional justice to be taught in […]

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The Victims of War Crimes and Their Civic Voice

Source: Recom.Link Photo: Two secondary mass graves near Snagovo, Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photocredit: MyBukit   Researching transitional justice in the Balkans: the victims of war crimes and their civic voice In 2015, Dr Denisa Kostovicova was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship that has allowed her to delve into the merits and limitations of a regional approach to transitional justice in the Balkans.  In a […]

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Christian A. Nielsen: The Hague tribunal has drawn a decent historical sketch of the breakup of the former Yugoslavia

RECOM Interview: Christian Axboe Nielsen Christian Nielsen has a doctorate in history from Columbia University, and wrote his dissertation on dictatorship of King Aleksandar. He has worked as an analyst and external consultant for the Office of the Prosecutor in the Hague, and has testified at four trials. He specializes in analyzing the work of the region’s ministries of internal affairs, […]

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Sustainable Return: A Guarantee for Stability and Integration in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Source: balkandiskurs.com This paper analyzes the importance of the return process and sustainable integration of returnees for reconciliation in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. With Annex VII of General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia (Dayton Peace Agreement, or DPA), refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) were ensured they could return to their pre-war homes. One obstacle for returnee families is in education […]

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How well do young Albanians and Serbs know each other?

Source: Recom.link Conflicting perceptions of the past, troubling perspectives for the future By Teuta Hoxha It has been more than 17 years since the war in Kosovo, yet relations between Kosovo and Serbia are still fragile. Kosovo today is struggling to achieve the idea of a multiethnic society in the aspects of communication, cooperation and eventually integration between communities living in Kosovo, […]

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A positive hero for everyone? The memorialization of Srđan Aleksić in post-Yugoslav countries

Source: Recom.link Contemporary Southeastern Europe, an international scholarly journal of the Centre for Southeast European Studies, the University of Graz, Austria, published article about momorialization of Srđan Aleksić, a war hero widely commemorated last years, especially in Serbia and Republika Srpska. Author of the article is Nicolas Moll, an independent researcher and lives in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, since 2007. […]

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