We were glad that we were joined in Goražde by figures from its political life, who also have the power and responsibility to forge a different culture of memory
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Media: As veterans honour Ahmici victims, activists criticise Croatia’s silence
While veterans from the region were paying their respects for the victims of the 1993 massacre in the village of Ahmici, Croatian activists were criticising their country’s leadership for not participating in the April 16th commemoration.
War Veterans from the Region at the Commemoration in Ahmići: We Need to Remember All Victims
“We are here to show by our presence that we can and must show compassion and respect not just for victims from our own people, but for others too. To show that there is another way. Then we can set the foundations for peace and coexistence in this region, which is our goal. So that our children never have to go through what we went through,” said Krešimir Ivančić, a veteran of the Croatian Army.
Joint Visit by War Veterans to the City of Niš and Participation at the Commemoration in Aleksinac
Since 2008, the Centre for Nonviolent Action, with offices in Sarajevo and Belgrade, has been organising visits by groups of war veterans from Croatia, Serbia and BiH to sites of atrocities against civilians and soldiers committed in the recent war and to official commemorations honouring victims, organised by local and state authorities and victims associations.
On Hatred, Violence, and the Media
On Friday, 8 March, the Centre for Peacebuilding in Kragujevac organised a round table at the Vuk Karadžić National Library on “Violent speech in the media and on social networks – verbal violence or freedom of expression”
Third Regional Short Story Contest Biber
Short story contest for authors writing in Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian or Serbian.
Members of the BiH Presidency Should Visit Sites of Atrocities Together
Mirza Dajić writes in Oslobođenje (6 January 2019) about the need for political officials to jointly visit sites of suffering, following the example of, among others, war veterans from the region who have been visiting sites of atrocities together for 10 years now, under the organisation of CNA.
New handbook: Nonviolence!
Our new handbook, bringing together experience gained over 20 years of trainings, has just come out in print.
At a Crossroad Again
From the Annual Report 2018: Political and social contexts in which we work: We’re not adapting to nobody, no way (about Bosnia and Herzegovina), Subjective experience (about Montenegro), Bearers of European Values (about Croatia), What have(n’t) we learned from our neighbours (about Kosovo), There is Tension (Again) (about Kosovo), At a Crossroad Again (about Macedonia), As the old saying goes, “The higher they climb the harder they fall” (about Serbia)