Our ninth action of marking unmarked sites of suffering is complete. This time, we visited sites in Mostar, Konjic, Sarajevo and Istočno Sarajevo.
Dealing with the past
Srebrenica is warning and motivation all year long
Let us do less of what is perceived as “popular” for July 11th and do more of what is right for BiH; and let us look at mine, yours and ours Srebrenica for the will, strength and desire needed to make the changes we all need.
We joined White Armband Day in Prijedor
At the invitation of our friends from Prijedor, on 31 May, we joined in marking International White Armband Day to commemorate the civilians and children killed in Prijedor
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.
“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
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.
New handbook: Nonviolence!
Our new handbook, bringing together experience gained over 20 years of trainings, has just come out in print.
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
Changing attitudes towards the past: Activists mark sites of atrocities in Vitez, Drvar, Kotor Varoš…
In November 2018, the informal group of peace activities, in its 8th action of marking unmarked sites of atrocities, marked sites in Vitez, Bosanski Petrovac, Kotor Varoš and at Manjača.
Youth Initiative to mark unmarked sites of atrocities in Croatia
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Croatia, with the assistance and support of the activist group Unmarked Sites of Atrocities, which has marked 58 unmarked sites of atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to date, has started marking unmarked sites of atrocities in Croatia.
Our purpose is human
War veterans at the commemoration in Stupni Do near Vareš, 23 October 2018