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.
On Human Rights Day 2021 the fifth Biber Short Story Contest has been opened. Both established and unpublished authors writing in Albanian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian or Serbian are eligible to enter.
The fourth Peacebuilding Training for students from Bosnia and Herzegovina was held from 22 to 28 July on Mount Vlašić.
It is very unusual to find yourself “on the other side” of “glorious” Croatian (and not just Croatian) military victories, among those against whom the victories are being celebrated. It is clear who was defeated, but there is always the question of whether anyone actually won?
War veterans and peace activists from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia join the memory of civilians killed 25 years ago.
The handbook is based on the experiences of the Centre for Nonviolent Action gathered during 15 years of intensive work in the region of former Yugoslavia. We hope that this handbook will serve as an inspiration for many and be an encouragement for peacebuilding work.
If we lived in a country in which all structures of state and society had a consensus about this
honest attitude, that every person must have their own right, regardless of their name, there
would be less need for citizens to come together to protect themselves or to express their
solidarity in protecting others. Unfortunately, more often than not people realize this only
when they feel injustice on their own skin and see that the others don’t care because they fear
for themselves, and in fact merely hope they are not the next in line.