The Present of Our Past study trip included visits to marked and unmarked sites of suffering in the wider Jasenovac and Novska area in Croatia, as well as Donja Gradina, Kozara, Prijedor and Sanski Most in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Special Report: Peacebuilding in South Asia and the Western Balkans – Insights from an Unusual Encounter
A special report about an extraordinary encounter with our colleagues from South Asia.
Results of the Fifth Biber Contest
The jury of the fifth regional Biber Short Story Context, comprising Kalina Maleska, Lejla Kalamujić and Olja Savičević Ivančević, has chosen the winners and the 25 stories that will be published in the multilingual collection.
Documentation: South Asia – Western Balkan Peacebuilding Exchange
The encounter within the project “South Asia – Western Balkan Peacebuilding Exchange” took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 26 March to 2 April 2022. The exchange included two parts: optional study trip in Mostar and the workshop held in Sarajevo. The participants of this exchange programme came from India, Manipur/India, Bangladesh, Germany, North Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Fifth Regional Short Story Contest Biber
On Human Rights Day 2021 the fifth Biber Short Story Contest has been opened. Both established and unpublished authors writing in Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian or Serbian are eligible to enter.
Collection of Stories from the Regional Biber Contest Promoted in Bugojno
Biber 04, a collection of anti-war short stories and short stories about reconciliation, was promoted in Bugojno on 9 November 2021.
Results of the Fourth Biber Short Story Contest
Some 750 stories were entered in the Fourth Biber Short Story Contest.
In memoriam
Our Novica Kostić, one of the bravest peace activists in the region, war-veteran, has died at the age of sixty-one.
Fourth Regional Short Story Contest Biber
Authors writing in Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian or Serbian are eligible to enter. The contest is open until 1 December 2020.
Biber 03
Collection of short stories selected through the third Biber Contest is published.
Biber 03: Press Release
Press Release on the completion of the Third Biber Competition
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.
Third Regional Short Story Contest Biber
Short story contest for authors writing in Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian or Serbian.
New handbook: Nonviolence!
Our new handbook, bringing together experience gained over 20 years of trainings, has just come out in print.
Public Debate on the Peacebuilding Strategy
On Human Rights Day, 10 December, a public debate on the Peacebuilding Strategy was held