CNA [Sarajevo | Beograd]
Centre for nonviolent action
The fifth Biber Contest ran from 10 December 2021 to 1 June 2022. A total of 473 stories were entered anonymously. Twenty stories selected for the collection were chosen by the jury made up of: Lejla Kalamujić, Kalina Maleska and Olja Savičević Ivančević.
Some 750 stories were entered in the Fourth Biber Short Story Contest.
I was excited at reading the title of Lea David’s book—The Past Can’t Heal Us. I thought we would finally have some useful research that would free us of the ballast of having to sift through the past and would reveal a new way forward, so I waited for the book with anticipation. It turned out my expectations were completely wrong. To put it mildly, I was shocked.
The short story contest Biber on the subject of reconciliation announced for the second time
opening the Exhibition “War of Memories” in Belgrade
Ex-combatants committed to peacebuilding have enormous potential for deconstructing enemy images and for reducing rifts of fear and hatred produced by violence.
After a 10-year hiatus, in May this year we launched a new round of Training for Trainers in Peacebuilding.
The workshop on dealing with the past in the Georgian/Abkhaz context was held in Belgrade from 11th to 14th June. Workshop participants were representatives of civil society from that region…
At the end of March 2012, six of us from the CNA team had the opportunity to go for a study tour to Berlin and devote a whole week to monuments in Berlin.