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The Unbearable Lightness of Going to War - 30 years since the beginning of the war in Croatia

“Living with Memories of the Missing” Kanal10 broadcasts 10 Audio Drama in Kosovo

International Women’s Day Across Three Decades

How long does a war crime last?

The Right to The Truth in the European Human Rights System: Then and Now

Republic Srpska lives in a political dictatorship

Estimates of War Victims in Kosovo Still Using the “Around” Measurement

Reshaping the Past in Public Space: the Case of Mostar

Historical Revisionism in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Historical Revisionism as a Platform for Nationalism and an Obstacle to Lasting Peace in the Western Balkans

No Country for Old Men

The Need to Review History Teaching

Amending History Textbooks is a Precondition to Normalize Relations

Metodija Andonov – Chento: Hero/Traitor/Hero

The ICTY Conditionality and North Macedonia’s Compliance with It

Family Members of the Missing Persons Request that “Discriminatory” Laws be Amended

Life under the Stigma of Rape and Insufficient State Pension

Second Attempt within the Year to Establish the Institute for the Research of War Crimes

Erroneous Identification of War Victims Revive the Pain of Family of Members

Civilian Victims Forgotten by the Collective Memory

Inclusive memorialization is crucial for the future of the Western Balkans

In-Between Peacebuilding and State-Building: 25 Years of the Dayton Peace Agreement

25 Years After the Dayton Agreement: INTERPRETING TWO PIECES OF GOOD NEWS

Beautiful Memories of Trauma? 

From ''Goodbye Lenin'' to goodbye future

Kevljani - a beautiful village

Temporary Camps, Permanent Memorials

Untold Stories

Reconciliation Ambassador in Project of Peacebuilding

The Ministry of Defense Revisionist Reader

Is there a middle ground between war crimes denial and the peacebuilding process?

Diaspora – its importance in the peacebuilding of BiH

Empathy as a way of building peace in our communities

Goran Zorić: A change of narrative or ''these are not the 1990s''

Denis Džidić: The failure to face the past has created room for manipulation

Predrag Kojović: The front line includes every centimetre

The Dark Shadows of Dubrovnik

Instead of Substance, Spectacle

Štefica Galić: Our societies are completely crazed, unhappy and poor

Amela Nevaljalović: Reflection on Dealing with the Past "In youth eyes program 2020"

Nedim Bajgorić: Movies connects you with the past in a deeper and personal way

‘Global War’ Against A Virus

Individual War Stories Shaping the Historical Dialogue for Peacebuilding

Midhat Izmirlija: Who is guiltier or more responsible?

Media literacy - the most effective vaccine against fake news epidemic

Looking back

SILENCE AS AN ALIBY

25 Years Later: Can “Operation Storm” Come to Mean Reconciliation?

Numbers and letters

The False Politics of Reconciliation

The other side of the coin

“The poisonings that envenomed my life”

Open Call – In Youth Eyes: Western Balkans Youth Team

About the exhibition "Peace with Women’s Face"

The exhibition I want to show my daughter

A WOMEN'S CHALLENGE TO THE OFFICIAL HISTORY

Anđa Obradović

AZRA HASANBEGOVIĆ

BOJANA JOVANOVIĆ

DANKA ZELIĆ

DUBRAVKA KOVAČEVIĆ

DUDIJA HIBIĆ

EDINA KARIĆ

EMINA BUSULADŽIĆ

GORDANA VIDOVIĆ

IFETA MEJREMIĆ

INDIRA BAJRAMOVIĆ

JASMINKA DRINO KIRLIĆ

MARA RADOVANOVIĆ

MILENA KARAPETROVIĆ

REJHA AVDIĆ

SEIDA KARABAŠIĆ

SMILJA MITROVIĆ

SUVADA SELIMOVIĆ

ŠTEFICA GALIĆ

VILDANA DŽEKMAN

Yes, It Happened

“He counted 145 murdered people in the yard”

Culture of remembrance in times of a pandemic

...a body’s memory of past as a reaction to the pandemic?

Collective trauma: Revisiting us in Pandemic times

“My Father said: I will not leave the house”

Defining the concept of transitional justice

The Past According to Social Media

Historical revisionism on the day of victory over fascism

Remembering the past on Social Media

Dealing with the past in the times of Social Media

Facing your Painful Past every day: The difficulties of Dealing with the Past in the Digital Age

The Trials are Ending – Now What?

Inside the Trap of Fake News

Role of Social Media in the Affirmation of Revisionism, Re-writing the Past and the Culture of Forgetting

Social media and portals – A space for overcoming or reinforcing prejudice?

Close but Unknown

Dealing with the Forgotten goes online

Let us live!

Media in Time of Pandemic

IN THE DARKNESS OF MISSING PERSONS

War as the beginning of a new era

Dealing with the Forgotten

What we are doing while “grandpa Ratko embraces us” or on the (non-)processing of war crimes in Serbia

“Sarajevo, the biggest concentration camp in the world"

Curfew for fascism

The heroines around us

Fascism in the late twentieth century: The siege of Sarajevo in numbers

War criminals as national war heroes, and all by law

Narratives of the past

The sun is far away

Fear of the truth is our defeat

Between truth and lies

Holes (in memory)

FACING THE PAST AND THE PRESENT

Shattered Mirror

850 Priorities and the time that passes

*Call for Papers* “Culture and Politics of Remembrance – Southeast European and Balkan Perspective

...what if we were in the shoes of the other side?

What Happens When the Mind is Blind?

It is difficult to deal with the past when pain unfolds

The Law on Free Access to Public Information and Access to Public Information in Practice

The Media and the Past that is not Passing

Truth not spoken at the right time is worse than a lie

MEDIA REPORTING ON THE PAST: CONTINUATION OF CONFLICT OR PEACE BUILDING?

Challenging the Truth

Media As Society’s Alarm to Deal with the Past

The Serbia Case: Tabloid Journalism and Dealing with the Past

Onlineseminar - Dealing with the Past Remembrance, reconciliation and reintegration

My lessons learnt from a violent past for a peaceful future

The Burden of Reporting on War Crimes in Kosovo

Bosnia Spends €2 Million on ‘Divisive’ War Memorials

WE CLOSE OUR EYES IN FRONT OF WAR CRIMES

The Danger of Silence

“New time” for the Missing from Kosovo

Hide and Seek

18 YEARS LATER

Gravesites far away from the courtrooms

The challenges of searching for missing persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Once Upon a Time and Never Again: Commemorating the missing and killed children from the war in Kosovo

A lifetime of searching for the Missing

We are not victims; we are fools who allowed another war to happen

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S EFFORTS AT RECONCILIATION AND DEALING WITH THE PAST

Angel Awaiting Salvation - Dedicated to Kurbinovo

KAZANI AS SARAJEVO'S STAIN DURING THE SIEGE

FEMALE SIDE OF PEACE

Can over there become over here?

Prishtina Walks

Dealing with the past in the Western Balkans

Can we build a peace without gender equality?

October in Belgrade

"Dealing with the Past" program

Peacebuilding in Prijedor

The past is our common field in the sets of our memories

Why discuss topics that don't bother you?

When Memorials Speak

How much past is enough?

New Public Monuments in the Region: a weapon in the civil war of memory

Visit to Omarska & Trnopolje

Post-Dayton Kozarac

Scream in the past

A brief history (an attempt) of the institutionalization of a memory

Storytelling

Freeing Space

Forgiveness

Economic Instability and War

Skopje 2014: Ethnocentric Memorialization and Kleptocracy

FEELINGS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE

It's high time for us to become individuals and stop being ethnicities

Law on War Memorials in Serbia: Nationalistic Monopoly over Memory

Personal Commemoration in the face of Public Oblivion

Building Memory

Women in Bronze

Fake news - global phenomenon with no solution on the horizon

Wake me up when it ends

The day that might dawn tomorrow

Srebrenica: dehumanising the Other

Oblivion, negation and denial equals genocide

MECHANISM LAUNCHES MEDIA TOOL KIT PAGE AND SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN COMMEMORATING THE 24TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SREBRENICA GENOCIDE

“You turn the TV on and realize that it’s a state of war”

Call for Applications: Summer School and Project “Challenge History 3 – React for the Future” Follow up

An American in Kosovo: Reflections on Collective Identity, National Belonging, and America’s Wartime Legacy

I do not know my father’s name

Urbanization of the past and wars of the 1990s

White Ribbon Day

Why has Serbia not faced its own war past?

In Situ Art Festival – Interview with Bojana Stojmenovska, Festival Director

The Old Bazaar - Skopje’s Treasure

THE EMOTIONAL ABOVE ALL

IMAGINATION AS TRUTH

The Power of Art in Dealing with the Past

Is it possible to speak about the past, whilst remaining silent about the present and future?

The Reconciliation of Blood Feuds Campaign 1990-1991: Oral History and Memory

Is there a (political) life after war crimes?

From Forgiveness to Reconciliation: Extending a Hand for a Better ‘Today’

Third Regional Short Story Competition Biber

BIRN Publishes Report on Challenges to Transitional Justice

In a Divided Bosnia, Segregated Schools Persist

Peace must be around you and in you

Border and Belonging

Open call for participants in the project 1918-2018: Building peace – lessons from World War One

From a culture of war to a culture of peace

Revisiting Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice in the Balkans

Transitional Justice: Theory versus Reality

The theatre group challenging Bosnia's ethnic divisions

Open Call – Sarajevo Film Festival Docu Corner and DwP Program 2018 for BiH Participants

Learning lessons from a violent past for a peaceful future

Jajce – students fighting against ethnic divisions

Suppressed siege of Bihać region

Anniversaries

How can arts and culture contribute to dealing with difficult pasts and to reconciliation in Europe?

OPEN CALL - INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON CONTEMPORARY ART FROM BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

In the shadow of a diplomatic war

Academic Conference - Revisiting Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice in the Balkans

These societies are proving on a daily basis and in every sense that they have not faced the past at all

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS SUMMER SCHOOL and PROJECT “CHALLENGE HISTORY 2 – REACT FOR THE FUTURE”

USHMM Event TEACHING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST AND MASS ATROCITIES: LESSONS FROM THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE

CROATIA – FACING THE PAST

Call for Applications – COURSE: Democracy & Post-Conflict Politics in Bosnia

To Each his Own History: Istorija (Serbian), Historija (Bosnian), Povijest (Croatian)

POLITICS OF MEMORY

How do we remember March 24, 1999?

To Women Who Cannot be Cast into Oblivion

Multiperspectivity – Sowing the seeds of reconciliation

History textbooks and dealing with the past in Serbia

Studies of cultural memory and oral history as a starting point to deal with the past

Multi-ethnic education is necessary from the earliest age

When paranoia and propaganda lead education

A CHANCE TO DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING

Living to talk about it

Historija? Istorija? Povijest?

Ten years of the Republic of Kosovo

A moratorium on the past?

If Albanian and Serb historical textbook narratives remain staunchly divided, what needs to change?

Balkan States ‘Expected to Sign Truth Commission Agreement’

The socialist legacy

Two schools under one roof – a principle that is no longer functioning!

2018 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL IN COMPARATIVE CONFLICT STUDIES

Bosnia: Landmark Verdicts Highlight Post-War Divisions

PROMOTION IN TIRANA: "OKRUZENJE IS PERFECTLY PLACED TO LINK REGIONAL INITIATIVES WITH THE PEOPLE LIVING IN THE WESTERN BALKANS”

Kosovo Serb Minister: Learning Albanian is Necessary

Facts from The Hague

Yugoslavia from a historical perspective and perspective of research on Yugoslavia

The role of dealing with the past in Kosovo’s education system

The Bosnian ideal – the lost lifestyle

Reflection on the identity – who am I and what determines me

The CDRSEE invites you to join the filming of a special episode of ‘Okruzenje/Vicinities’ in Tirana, December 15 at 11.00 am

Genocide is forever

JOINT HISTORY PROJECT II VOLUMES LAUNCH IN SLOVENIA

From a hero to a coward, the line was thin

The Hague judgments and media wars

Ratko Mladic Convicted of Genocide, Jailed for Life

Stories from the closet

And after the war, again the war

The CDRSEE invites you to the official launch of our new Joint History Project Workbooks which will take place in Ljubljana

A heavy inheritance

Right to remember: Fighting manipulations

Cultivation of genetically modified nationalism

The forgotten ones

Childhood and memories

My path to where I am

People that have a soul

Book of abstracts - Conference "Politics of building peace in the region: burdens from the past and visions for the future"

Booklet and agenda of the Conference "Politics of Building Peace in the Region: Burdens from the Past and Visions for the Future

From the rehabilitation of Chetniks to the rehabilitation of the war criminal politics from the nineties

‘Dealing with the Past: Social Movements in Kosovo in socialism and 1990s

Bosnia Activists Install Signs at Unmarked War Sites

CONFERENCE “POLITICS OF BUILDING PEACE IN THE REGION: BURDENS FROM THE PAST AND VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE”

(IN)COMPLETE IMAGES OF THE FEMALE WAR STORY

Guardian of memories

Civilian victims of wars at the mercy of the state of Serbia

I want to be heard

CDRSEE launches new collaboration with “Dealing with the past” website

A movie is a time capsule

Dealing with the past through gatherings of youth from different post-conflict societies

‘Men Don’t Cry’: Revealing Balkan Veterans’ Emotions

DESPITE ITS LIMITS, THE ICTY HAS BLAZED A TRAIL FOR VICTIMS’ EMPOWERMENT

New editions of Dealing with the Past and True Stories Market to Be Presented at Sarajevo Film Festival

Journalist associations from the region welcome the arrest of a person who threatened journalist Dragan Bursac

Memories As a Form of Wounds

Tragic Search for Victims of Croatia’s Operation Storm

CfA "International Youth Camp - Dealing with the Past and Holocaust Histories in the Balkans", Bitola, Macedonia, Sept. 10-19, 2017.

'OKRUZENJE' MAKES HISTORY IN TRIESTE

Invitation to the roundtable - “Challenge History: lessons learnt for a better future”

Monuments and memorials in the former Yugoslavia as an obstacle for facing the past

Hide-and-seek game

‘OKRUŽENJE’ (VICINITIES) ENTERS ITS SIXTH SEASON

Dealing with the Past from the perspective of Psychotherapy

Victorious Bosnia students 'will continue segregation struggle'

My visual memory

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Greater efforts needed to enhance social cohesion and media freedom

Partisans’ Necropolis in Bosnia’s Mostar Left to Rot

Pupils Challenge Ethnically-Divided Education in Bosnia

Apply for the Summer University Srebrenica

SELECTIVE MEMORY

Mirrors of our memories

The Fates of Balkan and Western Democracy are Inseparable

Academic conference “The Politics of Building Peace in the Region: Burdens of the Past and Visions for the Future”

Democracy & Post-Conflict Politics in Bosnia

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: SUMMER SCHOOL “CHALLENGE HISTORY”

Post-Yugoslav ‘Common Language’ Declaration Challenges Nationalism

Srebrenica’s First Serb Mayor Tries to Escape the Past

Croatian Tour Guides Ask for War History Lessons

Seeking Justice in a Divided Region: Text Analysis of Regional Civil Society Deliberations in the Balkans

RECONCILIATION IS NOT COOL

Mitrovica’s Flashpoint Bridge Symbolises Kosovo’s Divisions

Kosovo’s Thaci Announces Post-War Reconciliation Commission

Sarajevo Peace Charter Challenges Balkan Warmongers

Refik Hodžić on the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal

Bosnia’s War Childhood Museum Opens in Sarajevo

Which Balkan Minorities Is Less Talking About?

Kosovo’s Serbs Feel Frightened, Insecure and Misused

BIRN’s Kosovo War Film Screened in Banja Luka

Fascist Slogan Near Croatia Concentration Camp Sparks Anger

Sarajevo Siege Novel Celebrates Decency Under Fire

Bosnian War Childhood Museum Edges Closer to Opening

Kosovo Director Focuses Lens on Post-War Trauma

Victims of War are Becoming Invisible in Times of Peace

Bosnian War Rape Victims Rue Lost Motherhood

BIRN’s Kosovo War Film Screened at Sarajevo University

UN Presses Bosnia on Missing Persons

Photographer Documents Kosovo War’s Human Impact

The Case for Action on Transitional Justice and Displacement

Netherlands Targeted in Appeal Over Srebrenica Deaths

Amid Growing Tensions In The Balkans, A Museum For Peace Is Born

Political Reconciliation: With or Without Grand Narratives? [Paper]

Kosovo Could Restore Serb-Albanian Anti-Fascist Monument

Transitional Justice and Media: A Crucial But Neglected Relationship

Vucic and Durakovic talk about Srebrenica at Clinton panel

HER- AND HIS- STORY DISCUSSED IN SMALL TALK

Yugoslav Rock Music’s Doomed Concert for Peace

Balkan Prosecutors Vow Justice for War Crimes Victims

On the Progress of Transitional Justice in Serbia

Serbian City Plans Monument to Partisans’ WWII Victims

A POIGNANT TRIBUTE TO KOSOVO’S MISSING PERSONS

Ending the silence surrounding secret mass graves and the fates of the missing

Kosovo President: Missing Persons are a ‘Grave Wound’

What is Political Reconciliation? Reflections on Reconciliation after the Karadzic Trial

Bosnian War Crimes Convicts Pay to Stay Free

On Reconciliation

The insufficient commemoration of civilian victims in Kosovo

Sarajevo Museum of Crimes Against Humanity Open

Dealing with the Past, a project of the Sarajevo Film Festival

More efficient prosecution of war crimes and respect for rights of civilian victims of war – condition for EU membership

Mirëdita Dobar Dan Festival in Belgrade: We Stuck our Foot in the Open Door

BiH Alternative Report 2016: Political criteria

Speech of future President of Serbia in Srebrenica on July 11th

International Youth Workcamp – Dealing with the Past and Jewish History in the Balkans

THE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN POST-CONFLICT BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

RESPONding to the Past must involve RESPONsibility Acceptance

UN Women Statement for the first International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict

About Remembrance and Reconciliation: ICTJ Debate Summary

Sandra Orlović: Prosecution of war crimes in Serbia will sink even lower

Izetbegović’s Visit to Kazani is a Contribution to Reconciliation

Macedonia is reaching crisis point and the West is looking the other way

Educational Standards and the Wars in Former Yugoslavia

Justice for atrocity and economic crimes: can the EU deliver?

Educating about transitional justice in Kosovo [policy paper]

A Reporter Returns to Kosovo, 15 Years Later

Bosnia museum highlights childhood war experiences

The psychological cost of reconciliation

What 50 War Criminals Have to Say about International Justice

More than 600 persons indicted for war crimes

David Tolbert: The Šešelj, Karadžić and Gotovina judgements have been disappointing

The Balkans and culture of remembrance: Murderers as model citizens

Omanović: My life from hate to peace building

Research on culture of remembrance

“The Challenge of Commemoration and Holocaust Education”

„Meeting points: What are the Balkans and what could they be?

Dealing with the Past Necessary for Reconciliation in the Western Balkans

Post-Karadzic Bosnia and Herzegovina: The End of the Criminal Justice Era

Invitation - “Depth Two”

The Past as a Supermarket

Results of Competition on Culture of Remembrance “Moments-Monuments-Movements

'Farah Tahirbegović' Award for the Youth Initiative 'Because it Concerns Me'

Why Macedonia is Not Interested in Reconciliation Process in the Region?

Peace Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Effects of Ingroup Identification, Outgroup Trust and Intergroup Forgiveness on Intergroup Contact

Activists March to Kosovo Mass Grave in Belgrade

History textbooks in post-conflict societies: Education for reconciliation? [Publication]

Tribunal convicts Radovan Karadžić for crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina

What the Karadzic verdict means for Bosnia

Promotion of Bekim Fehmiu book "Brilliant and Terrifying" – part two

Eric Gordy on forthcoming verdict in Radovan Karadžić case

Arrested Truth: Transitional Justice and the Politics of Remembrance in Kosovo

START OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IN SKOPJE ABOUT THE GENOCIDE OF ROMA AND SINTI DURING WORLD WAR II

Call for Applications: Sub-granting programme for investigative journalism

Kosovo Honours Female War Victims on Women’s Day

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

The Berlin Report of the Human Security Study Group

The Victims of War Crimes and Their Civic Voice

Kosovo High Schools to Teach Transitional Justice

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

People and Memories Talk

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

Depth Two: Facing up to our own crimes

How well do young Albanians and Serbs know each other?

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

What Bosnians think about being divided by ethnicity?

Open the Archives of the Yugoslavia Tribunal!

Report Serbia - Events of 2015

Hate Speech That May Evolve into Crime

Silence and Denial in Višegrad

Open University: Nationalism and the Recent Past

3rd International Summer School

Reparations and Assistance for Victims: What’s the Difference?

Igor Štiks: We still haven’t been able to create a regional narrative about reconciliation

“MemorInmotion”- pedagogical tool on the culture of remembrance/ Documentation and evaluation for 2015

The Soul’s Remembrance – Book Promotion Event

Education – cure or symptom?

"MemorInmotion" works

Sarajevo Remembers Serb Wartime Victims

“not to be repeated!”: ongoing trauma for victims of bosnia-herzegovina civil war 20 years later.

Branko Ćulibrk: It is important to initiate a discussion on "difficult" issues and not be afraid of threats

The EU’s Policy Framework on support to transitional justice

THEATER OF PEACE LIVE

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Almost 7,000 people still missing

Education and Transitional Justice: Opportunities and Challenges for Peacebuilding [report]

Balkan Politicians ‘Not Taking Reconciliation Seriously’

4 Open University Sarajevo

Bosnia’s Unending War

‘The Dark Ages’ Turns Bosnian War into Drama

Researching reconciliation: between public narratives and micro-politics

Tears Falling on Bread ~ Winning Story of Srđan Aleksić Youth Competition

DAY OF REMEMBRANCE OF THE VICTIMS AT KAZANI

ANNIVERSARY OF THE SUFFERING OF VICTIMS FROM SJEVERIN

Humanity with a woman’s face in Bosnia and Herzegovina

War Childhood Museum

Distorted Remembrance Culture ‘Traps Bosnia in Past’

Bekim Fehmiu Film Week in Kosovo, 06 – 10 October 2015

Cultures of Remembrance in Sarajevo, or the Protracted Search for Multiperspectivity and Integration

UDIK-ICMP: THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE DISAPPEARED OBSERVED IN SARAJEVO

An action for expressing support to the establishment of the RECOM initiative was held in Banja Luka

Documenting detention camps and other detention facilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 1992-1995

TRIAL/analysis: Enforcement of damage compensation requests of war crimes victims in criminal proceedings in BiH

Project entitled ''Mapping Detention Camps/Detention Facilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 1992-1995''

CDTP organised a RECOM support campaign in Banja Luka

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