Afërdita Lukaj You cannot find much about the 1998-99 war in Kosovo in the history textbooks of primary and secondary schools in Serbia. What those texts contain are even more crimes allegedly committed by Albanians. The primary school textbooks, grades 5 to 12, in Kosovo also present even more only the crimes committed by Serbian forces. Searches in internet also display highly […]

Xheneta Murtezaj Restorations without criteria have followed the buildings of special importance in Kosovo, which have suffered from destruction and damage during the war in Kosovo and from the carelessness that has prevailed in the post-war reconstruction chaos. The data of the Ministry of Culture of Kosovo show that there are 1,025 monuments of construction heritage including towers, traditional dwelling […]

Tringa Dreshaj After many attempts and more than 22 years since the end of the war in Kosovo, this year, the Government of Kosovo started to draft a National Strategy for Transitional Justice in the country. This strategy aims to address human rights violations and war crimes that took place in Kosovo during 1998-99, and a team of 10 civil […]

Qliresa Hasani Tracing mixed emotions, Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo continue to look back at their past from completely opposite perspectives. More than two decades after the end of the 1998-99 war, in the historical perspective of Albanians, the war in Kosovo is observed in most parts of the country, while for Serbs, the former Yugoslavia is observed more as […]

DRENUSHA CANOLLI Agron Limani, from Krusha e Vogël, and his family continue to wait to know the fate of the father, uncle and uncle’s son. In 2014, mortal remains of his brother, Luan, were found in a mass grave near Prizren. His father, brother and two uncles were killed at noon on 26 March 1999. They were killed in Krusha […]

Blendrita Avdiu Zarife Çoçaj, is one of 11 students of the Balkanistics, the new program of the Faculty of Philology that was accredited this year, to provide the teaching of Albanian and Serbian languages, as well as other Balkan languages, ​​along with their literature, culture and history. She says she sees this program as a good opportunity for her future. […]

Besmire Kluna It was September 1989 when the Gallery of the Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade would make room for 1,247 Kosovo artifacts for a temporary exhibition. The contingent that included 571 ethnological exhibits and 676 archeological exhibits turned out to be the most long-term exhibition because they have not been returned to their country of origin even […]

The spring of 1998 was terrible for I.B.’s family from Kosovo. 23 years from the disappearance of the family head, the hope of family members for justice is disappearing little by little every day. Nevertheless, they do have a ray of hope in the Specialist Court. Besian Beha I.N. has just registered in the program of Victims’ Participation Office of […]

Our partners of the regional project Alliances for Peace Education, namely EIHR, PCRC and forumZFD BiH are honored to present the publication of the pedagogical Manual ” Holocaust & Peace”- Lessons from the past for the future: a practical guide for educators. The Manual developed by fifteen authors includes 11 Lesson plans/workshops divided in 4 Modules teaching about and on History, Human […]

Autor: Klajdi Ballanca, objavljeno na https://klajdiballanca.medium.com/a-norman-in-sarajevo-33678cf796f2 A brief summary of my experience as a participant of SFF’s In Youth Eyes Project Where to start????? I find myself in a strange place, on one hand, I have paragraph after paragraph that begs to be written, and on the other, I feel that all words, in all languages would do no justice, […]

Multilingualism is still regarded as a responsibility of the educational system in Kosovo, yet the majority of schools practice the use of only one language in the classrooms. The issue of multilingualism in Kosovo, within an education system that is mainly divided along the ethnic lines, still reflects the past and divisions that weigh upon the linguistic diversity. The Language […]

On July 23, 2021, the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina published a Decision on Enacting the Law on Amendment to the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina. More specifically, the amendments refer to Article 145a introducing a prohibition of public approval, denial, gross trivialisation, attempt to justify and glorification of crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes.