Media: As veterans honour Ahmici victims, activists criticise Croatia’s silence
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.
War Veterans from the Region at the Commemoration in Ahmići: We Need to Remember All Victims
“We are here to show by our presence that we can and must show compassion and respect not just for victims from our own people, but for others too. To show that there is another way. Then we can set the foundations for peace and coexistence in this region, which is our goal. So that our children never have to go through what we went through,” said Krešimir Ivančić, a veteran of the Croatian Army.
“It is political to remove eternity out of hatred”
To come face to face with yourself, with others, to regain and re-earn the trust of others, to believe that we can and must live together, these are just some of the steps that the veterans undertake when making visits across the region. By no means easy, these steel-shod steps rung out loud and clear, confident and without fear, throughout our time in Niš and Aleksinac
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.
Biber and War of Memories in Podgorica: Inhumanity as the Common Enemy
On 13 March, the Centre for Nonviolent Action and the Biber team organised the promotion of the third Biber Short Story Contest in Podgorica. Already the next day, 14 March, we opened the War of Memories exhibition
On Hatred, Violence, and the Media
On Friday, 8 March, the Centre for Peacebuilding in Kragujevac organised a round table at the Vuk Karadžić National Library on “Violent speech in the media and on social networks – verbal violence or freedom of expression”
Third Student Training in Peacebuilding: Generational Responsibility?!
The third peacebuilding training for students from BiH is complete. We identified the need for this type of peace education geared at students for the first time four years ago, when we organised the first peacebuilding training for students from BiH.
Third Regional Short Story Contest Biber
Short story contest for authors writing in Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian or Serbian.
Members of the BiH Presidency Should Visit Sites of Atrocities Together
Mirza Dajić writes in Oslobođenje (6 January 2019) about the need for political officials to jointly visit sites of suffering, following the example of, among others, war veterans from the region who have been visiting sites of atrocities together for 10 years now, under the organisation of CNA.
New handbook: Nonviolence!
Our new handbook, bringing together experience gained over 20 years of trainings, has just come out in print.
At a Crossroad Again
From the Annual Report 2018: Political and social contexts in which we work: We’re not adapting to nobody, no way (about Bosnia and Herzegovina), Subjective experience (about Montenegro), Bearers of European Values (about Croatia), What have(n’t) we learned from our neighbours (about Kosovo), There is Tension (Again) (about Kosovo), At a Crossroad Again (about Macedonia), As the old saying goes, “The higher they climb the harder they fall” (about Serbia)
Reconciliation does not mean forcing individuals to reconcile
The strategy aims to offer guidelines about the lessons to be learned from the wars. Primarily about how to re-examine the national past, which is presented as black-and-white in the dominant narrative.
Public Debate on the Peacebuilding Strategy
On Human Rights Day, 10 December, a public debate on the Peacebuilding Strategy was held
Peacebuilding Strategy – A Regional Need
Full text of the Peacebuilding Strategy
Every blood-soaked stone
We have completed our eighth action of marking unmarked sites of atrocities. With nine new marked locations, that makes 67 sites we have marked