Centre for Nonviolent Action

We have published the 28th Annual Report of the Centre for Nonviolent Action. We look forward to your comments, suggestions and feedback.

How and why the student rebellion began and developed? About the deep commitment to nonviolent action despite the regime’s brutal crackdown. About the solidarity.

The 6th Biber Contest was open from 8 December 2023 to 26 May 2024. A total of 490 stories were submitted.

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.

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 book We Come in Peace: War Veterans in Peacebuilding was promoted at the Historical Museum in Sarajevo, followed by the opening of the exhibition of photographs.

The book We Come in Peace: War Veterans in Peacebuilding was promoted at the Brčko District of BiH Library on Tuesday, 9 September 2025, followed by the opening of the exhibition of photographs by Nenad Vukosavljević.

On 26 May 2025, precisely at noon, a commemoration was held in Herceg Novi to mark 33 years since the war crime committed against Bosniak civilians

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

We spoke to Marija Ilić and Dimitrije Glukčević, students from Niš who are actively involved in the student protests, but who are also taking part in the Training of Trainers organised by the Centre for Nonviolent Action, about the student protests that have been ongoing in Serbia since November 2024

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The third phase of the Training for Trainers was held from July 10th to 20th, 2025, in Tetovo, Macedonia

The first phase of the Training for Trainers was held from 4 to 14 April 2025 in Ulcinj, Montenegro

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.

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.

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.

Tita Mikulaš has joined the CNA Team.

We spoke to Marija Ilić and Dimitrije Glukčević, students from Niš who are actively involved in the student protests, but who are also taking part in the Training of Trainers organised by the Centre for Nonviolent Action, about the student protests that have been ongoing in Serbia since November 2024

Political and social contexts in which we live

How and why the student rebellion began and developed? About the deep commitment to nonviolent action despite the regime’s brutal crackdown. About the solidarity.

Here are 15 titles, 15 books about the genocide against Bosniaks in the wider Srebrenica area whose anniversary is marked on 11 July

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

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