The 6th Biber Contest was open from 8 December 2023 to 26 May 2024. A total of 490 stories were submitted.
activities
Peace Activists and Veterans from the Region Attend the Anniversary of the Closing of the Heliodrom Camp
Members of the team from the Centre for Nonviolent Action, together with a smaller group of war veterans from the region, attended the commemoration to mark 31 years since the closing of the Heliodrom camp near Mostar
We Come in Peace Book Promotion and Photography Exhibition in Goražde
On Monday, 17 March 2025 the Culture Centre in Goražde hosted the presentation of the book We Come in Peace: War Veterans in Peacebuilding, followed by the opening of the exhibition of photographs
Arte.tv – Re: Späte Versöhnung, nach Krieg und Terror
Arte.tv about examples of reconciliation work in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Spain
Valterportal.ba: “Books like We Come in Peace can work like an elixir”
Valterportal.ba asks how war veterans, people who used to look at each other through cross-hairs, can become not just peace activists, but good friends, and gives answers through a review of our book
Prometej.ba about the book We Come in Peace
Through an interview with Nenad Vukosavljević, the Prometej.ba portal looks into the book about CNA’s work with war veterans.
Mirjana Trifković Marjanović: “Welcome to a life-changing experience”
The Training in Peacebuilding was the first time I heard openly from different sides and different participants in the conflict
Indictments raised for several sites we marked in past years
In the first days of 2025, the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina raised a series of indictments against individuals accused of war crimes committed in the area of Livno, Žepče and Hrasnica.
New Book: “We Come in Peace: War Veterans in Peacebuilding”
We are pleased to announce the publication of our new book “We Come in Peace: War Veterans in Peacebuilding”.
Beacons of Peace
As part of the twentieth action to mark unmarked sites of suffering, we visited and marked the sites in the areas of Zvornik, Lukavac and Prnjavor
Open Letter – in response to the statement by the Mayor of Prnjavor
Open letter to the Mayor of Prnjavor in response to his media statements and denial of war crimes in the City of Prnjavor
Peace activists mark unmarked sites of suffering in Zvornik, Lukavac, Prnjavor and Teslić
At the same time, the action to mark unmarked sites of suffering in Croatia was started by activists of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights
Women against violence, hate speech and genocide: Experience from the Kigali workshop
The Office of the UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide (OSAPG) organised a workshop in Kigali, Rwanda on 4 and 5 November 2024 for women active in communities
27th Annual Report Published
We have published the 27th Annual Report of the Centre for Nonviolent Action. We look forward to your comments, suggestions and feedback about this report.
Results of the Sixth Biber Short Story Contest
The jury for the regional Biber Short Story Contest, comprising Almin Kaplan, Jasna Dimitrijević and Tanja Stupar Trifunović, selected 24 stories to be included in the multilingual collection and decided on the prizes. One story was selected for the collection by the Biber organisation team.