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
remembrance culture
The Courage and Openness of Twenty-Year-Olds
The fourth Peacebuilding Training for students from Bosnia and Herzegovina was held from 22 to 28 July on Mount Vlašić.
War Veterans of ARBiH, HVO and VRS Honoured the Victims Killed at Korićanske stijene
War veterans of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH), the Croat Defence Council (HVO) and the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) paid their respects today (21.08.2020.) to the people of Prijedor killed at Korićanske stijene, a site located in the Kneževo/Skender Vakuf Municipality.
Sites of Memory about the Crimes of the Junta in Argentina
Publication about sites of memory related to the crimes committed by the junta during their dictatorship in Argentina.
We Mourn All Victims
On the 25th anniversary of the killings in Trusina, the commemoration to honour the victims was attended by veterans from the region, veterans of the Army of BiH, HVO, HV, VRS, JNA and VJ.
What, they’re here too?
Ljudevit Kolar Kole, our associate from Novi Sad, on the importance of joint visits by war veterans to sites of suffering.
A Small Space for Light to Come Through – Why is the Silence Surrounding the Danube Swabians Still so Loud?
The fate of the Danube Swabians is still a taboo topic in Serbia and throughout the former Yugoslavia…
“On the Trail of the Danube Swabians in Vojvodina” Exhibition Opens
An exhibition of photographs accompanying the research project “On the Trail of Danube Swabians in Vojvodina” opened tonight, on 12 December, at KC “Parobrod” in Belgrade.
War-veterans Visit Goražde: Ears Want to Hear
Goražde, BiH, 8-9. November 2017.
Goražde, Foča, Stolac and Mostar: Activists marked unmarked sites of suffering Victims of war declare: “We can contribute to reconciliation”
1-3. December 2017.
Documentary “Alien Home”
The documentary film Alien Home aims to recognise the pain of those who exchanged their homes at some point in their lives. This pain spills over the borders imposed around them, whether they are ethnic, regional, familial, age-based, etc.
I have learned to stay silent and to listen
…A preponderance of history per square meter in other countries makes it a haven for tourists, but here it is only a guarantee of the presence of death, or at least it has been up till now.
Robert Streibel
Round Table of the Centre for Nonviolent Action, Sarajevo, October 2017
Historians Wanted for an Unwanted Past
Round table of historians, journalists, activists, Sarajevo 14-15. 10. 2017.
What are historians silent about when they speak and what do they speak of with their silence?
Commemorations in Varivode and Gošić
28. september 2017.
Bosnia Activists Install Signs at Unmarked War Sites – by BalkanInsight
Four activists from Bosnia and Herzegovina have been conducting an unofficial campaign to place temporary memorial signs at sites where people suffered during wartime but where no permanent monument exists.