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New CNA Team Member: Final Fulfilment

Dimitrije Glukčević has joined the CNA team.

Group of War Veterans and Peace Activists Visit Bihać, Cazin and Bosanski Petrovac

The veterans’ gathering and visit to Bihać, Cazin and Bosanski Petrovac were held from 20 to 24 May 2026.

Biber at the Mikser Festival in Novi Pazar

We presented the Biber stories on 7 June 2026 at the “New World” Mikser Festival in Novi Pazar.

Jasmina and the Day of Remembrance for the Killed Children of Sarajevo

A personal reflection on attending the commemoration for the killed children of besieged Sarajevo

Art Action against Hate in Banja Luka

“Art against Hate” is the title of a street campaign held from 9 to 10 May in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

New Publication Announcement: Negotiated Justice

The Centre for Nonviolent Action has published a new book, Negotiated Justice: Plea Agreements for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia. The publication is divided into two parts: the first deals with analysis and theory and the second functions as an archival database of plea agreements.

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Biber is a short story contest for socially engaged short stories in Albanian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian, Macedonian and Serbian.

Biber tim CNA je književno-aktivistička ekipa okupljena oko ideje da umetnost može inspirisati društvenu promenu. Pokrenule smo Biber jer verujemo da književnost koja je svesna konteksta u kojem nastaje ima potencijal da interveniše u tom kontekstu – da utiče i da menja, da nam svima da malo nade, a time i šansu.

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The contest is organised by the Biber Team of the Centre for Nonviolent Action Sarajevo-Belgrade.
We are a literary activist team brought together by the idea that art can inspire social change. We launched Biber because we believe that when literature is aware of its context, it has the potential to intervene in that context – to effect changes, to give us all hope and a fighting chance.

The contest is organised by the Biber Team of the Centre for Nonviolent Action Sarajevo-Belgrade.
We are a literary activist team brought together by the idea that art can inspire social change. We launched Biber because we believe that when literature is aware of its context, it has the potential to intervene in that context – to effect changes, to give us all hope and a fighting chance.

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The contest is organised by the Biber Team of the Centre for Nonviolent Action Sarajevo-Belgrade.
We are a literary activist team brought together by the idea that art can inspire social change. We launched Biber because we believe that when literature is aware of its context, it has the potential to intervene in that context – to effect changes, to give us all hope and a fighting chance.

The contest is organised by the Biber Team of the Centre for Nonviolent Action Sarajevo-Belgrade.
We are a literary activist team brought together by the idea that art can inspire social change. We launched Biber because we believe that when literature is aware of its context, it has the potential to intervene in that context – to effect changes, to give us all hope and a fighting chance.

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This online handbook is created as an online support tool for practitioners with previous knowledge and skills of groupwork with adults on issues of dealing with conflict and peacebuilding.

 

The handbook cannot replace knowledge and skills acquired through participation at the Training for Trainers and the learning process of practical work in team with more experienced.

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“Unmarked SITE OF SUFFERING – At this site, during the past war, people were subjected to inhuman acts – By not letting these events be forgotten, we stand in solidarity with all victims – May it never happen again to anyone.”

 

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These web pages document places of suffering and places of remembrance in Bosnia and Herzegovina related to the 1991-1995 war. peacebuilding.

 

 

The product of the conducted research is the publication:

War of Memories – Places of suffering and remembrance of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina

 

 

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