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.
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A story everyone should know
Text by Marko Čolić, HV war veteran from Daruvar, following a joint visit by war veterans to the commemoration in Stupni Do
Reconciling Histories!?
Reflections about Conference organised by the Centre for Nonviolent Action (CNA), Sarajevo 15.-17.5.2018.
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.
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
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.
Surviving the war years in Sarajevo – by Shanil Haricharan
Adnan Hasanbegović: “Through peace-building work, I understood why war is going on, and we have to work on peace. Muhammad and Jesus were peace builders.”
Promotions of Biber stories in Prishtine, 01.03.2017.
Short stories by authors from Former-Yugoslavia aim to reconcile the bad blood between nations.
Music Pavilion Staklenac, Banja Luka 22 November – 4 December 2016, exhibition “War of Memories”
The specific journey through the recent past, marred by war and suffering, began in Sarajevo where the exhibition “War of Memories” was first put on; continued in Mostar and then in Banja Luka where the exhibition of photographs from the project “War Monuments...
The Croatian Lodge “Herceg Stješan Kosača”, Mostar 2-16.11.2016. Exhibitions of photographs “War of Memories”
In the spirit of the mission of the Centre for Nonviolent Action Sarajevo-Belgrade, which entails building lasting peace by promoting a culture of nonviolence, dialogue and trust among people in the region of the former Yugoslavia, the project “War Monuments in Bosnia...
Peace Initiative: War Veterans on a Quest for Peace
Published in Bjelovarski list on 19 September 2016
Don’t offer us another war instead of bread, NIN 15.09.2016
Forty war veterans who were on warring sides in the 1990s met at the place where the war started and sent a message to the politicians to stop the renewal of another vicious circle of hatred
Towns, forgetting and thorns
Continuation of the activity “Marking Atrocity Sites” in Podrinje and Herzegovina, 17 – 18 May 2016
Peacebuilding Training for Students from BiH
Jahorina 31 July – 5 August 2015
I spent the night at the Keleti train station and realised why it’s important to be human
If you can, try to be brothers and sisters to each other, and if you cannot, there is really no need to turn into wolves.