Will there be war again? For the past two months, this is the question on everyone’s lips in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
thoughts
The Rule of Overgeneralisation *
Review of The Past Can’t Heal Us (2020) by Lea David
Response to “The Past Can’t Heal Us”
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.
Does anyone get what’s going on here?
Political and social contexts in which we operate – from the annual report for 2020
Anno Covidi
COVID-19 has managed to “infect” various areas. Democratic processes have, unfortunately, not remained immune.
People, Not Places
Three stories about people from Bilovode, Zecovo and Prijedor
The Enemy Within (thoughts about Victims and Camps)
We were taught about the Second World War in school, we watched films, read books. We expect there to be a consensus, at least about the basics. The Holocaust, the casualties of the Second World War, the reign of fascism and the horrors of destruction left in its wake are (mostly) not disputed. However, if we can agree on that, why can’t we commemorate this properly, by commemorating victims and the places where lives were taken?
Dialogue with the devil
Would you speak to your enemy? – published by FriEnt originally
Nenad Vukosavljević: People, not territories! New Approaches Needed in the Western Balkans
What can Germany do better in the Western Balkans? Nenad Vukosavljević (Centre for Non-Violent Action) recommends: No border changes but people-to-people contacts & no tolerance of authoritarian tendencies