Centre for Nonviolent Action

We are pleased to announce the publication of our new book “We Come in Peace: War Veterans in Peacebuilding”.

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.

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.

We have published the 26th Annual Report of the Centre for Nonviolent Action. We look forward to your comments, suggestions and feedback about this report.

We published the second expanded edition of On the Trail of the Danube Swabians in Vojvodina in German in 2023

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.

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

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

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 about examples of reconciliation work in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Spain

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

Through an interview with Nenad Vukosavljević, the Prometej.ba portal looks into the book about CNA’s work with war veterans.

We are pleased to announce the publication of our new book “We Come in Peace: War Veterans in Peacebuilding”.

The meeting of war veterans at Mount Ozren in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 23 to 27 September 2024 also included meetings with local authorities and associations in Maglaj, Lukavac and Petrovo

A group of peace activists and war veterans attended the marking of White Armband Day in memory of non-Serb civilians killed during the war from 1992 to 1995 in Prijedor

The commemorative gathering in front of the Herceg Novi Security Centre at noon on 25 May 2024 marked 32 years since the war crime committed against Bosniak civilians

Peace activists of the Centre for Nonviolent Action Belgrade – Sarajevo attended the commemoration for 37 civilian victims in Čardak near Derventa

A group of peace activists and war veterans will attend the commemorations on 16 April 2024 both in Ahmići and in Trusina

Together with prison camp survivors, supported by peace activists, reporters and war veterans, from 9 to 11 March 2024, the Centre for Nonviolent Action visited former detention facilities in the area of Konjic, Mostar, Istočni Mostar and Jablanica

In a relaxed working atmosphere in Daruvar, war veterans discussed the need for joint planning and next steps and reviewed their work over the past period.

Invited by the “Suza” Association of Families and Friends of Missing Persons from Rogatica, a mixed group of war veterans and peace activists from the region attended the commemoration to mark 31 years since the start of persecution of non-Serbs in the Rogatica area

The Training in Peacebuilding was the first time I heard openly from different sides and different participants in the conflict

Report from the 46th Basic Training in Peacebuilding, Ulcinj, Montenegro, 18-28 October 2024

17 participants, 2 interpreters, 5 trainers. All survived, with some losses.

The Basic Training in Peacebuilding, its 45th edition, was held in Kruševo, in the south of North Macedonia from 6 to 16 October 2023.

Report from the fifth Peacebuilding Training for students from Bosnia and Herzegovina that held from 22 to 28 July 2023 on Mount Vlašić

The 44th Basic Training in Peacebuilding organised by the Centre for Nonviolent Action Sarajevo/Belgrade was held in Ulcinj, Montenegro from 14 to 24 October.

Many topics and questions discussed at the training are taboos in our societies, they are not spoken about, not even in the most intimate circles

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

Through an interview with Nenad Vukosavljević, the Prometej.ba portal looks into the book about CNA’s work with war veterans.

Portal Kosovo 2.0 published an article about the peace work of the CNA, especially about our working with war veterans

The report was recorded on February 26 and 27, 2020, during the participation of war veterans from the region at the commemoration in Prijepolje, for the victims in Štrpce.

Lupiga.com about war veterans action in Prijepolje in february 2020.

The official awards ceremony was held on 12 December 2019 at the Croatian National Theatre in Osijek

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.

Political and social contexts in which we live

The people of Kosovo are far from reconciliation, but it remains a common desired goal. Luan Imeri, a columnist of Рацин.мк wrote this reportage a few days after visiting Kosovo with a group of friends – peace activists from the former Yugoslavia, led by the Centre for Nonviolent Action

Political and social contexts in which we live

Starting from 1 January 2024, citizens of Kosovo will be able to travel visa-free anywhere in Europe, but not to BiH, for which they will need to obtain a visa either from Zagreb, Podgorica, Tirana or Skopje

BETWEEN DENIAL AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Who and what does the Kazani memorial serve?

Nedžad Novalić, member of the CNA team, in a text published by the ResPublica portal writes about the commemoration for killed children in Sarajevo

Vanja Stokić, a reporter and activist from Banja Luka, writes about the impact of the draft law adopted by the Republika Srpska National Assembly criminalising slander and libel.