A meeting of war veterans from Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was held in Doboj from 26 to 28 April 2013. It was organised by the Centre for Non-Violent Action from Belgrade/Sarajevo and its field team made up of Katarina Milićević, Davorka Turk, Nedžad Horozović, Adnan Hasanbegović and Amer Delić.
The activities included a Focus Group set up to consider the issue of memorialisation, and an accompanying workshop dealing with Taboos.
The Focus Group included a presentation of collected materials and photographs from more than thirty monuments, as well as from some still unmarked sites of suffering in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the 1992-1995 war. The intention was to discuss the existing models and examples of memorialisation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Taboos Workshop dealt with issues of facing the past in the region and the numerous controversial topics circulating in the public space. There was talk of manipulation of victims, lack of justice in the context of aquittals and unprosecuted crimes, as well as about the various interpretations of the causes behind the wars in the region.
The achievements of the veterans group in terms of peace-building were also analysed, as well as the potential participants recognise in themselves, and the possibility for joint activities in future peace actions.
