Ljudevit Kolar Kole, our associate from Novi Sad, on the importance of joint visits by war veterans to sites of suffering.
thoughts
All happened already? (context 2017)
Has all of this happened already? (about Kosovo)
A Treacherous Clique – Press Release by the War Veterans Organisation (OVL) of the Kosovo Liberation Army (UÇK) – Who’s to blame? (about Kosovo)
A Rubicon with hundreds of tributaries (about Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The stormy years are not over (we haven’t seen anything yet) (about Croatia)
To Have Your Cake and Eat It Too (about Serbia)
Çka tash? / What now? (about Macedonia)
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
New CNA team member
Since recently, Nedžad Novalić is with us
Socio-political context 2016
Bosnia-Herzegovina: If we could just defeat selfishness…
Croatia: It’s no laughing matter
Kosovo: Silence as a means of dealing with the past
Macedonia: “Poverty is my nationality”
Serbia: I’d burn down the entire village
Coffins
Today, the youth get coffins packed with 25 years of their parents’ lives, over 130 thousand dead, hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and refugees, millions whose lives were permanently damaged by wars, transition, theft, crime, misery, all the misfortunes that go with it
Study Trip Beograd-Vukovar-Srebrenica-Sarajevo-Mostar
29.5. – 5.6. 2016
Islam and Nonviolence – How I Became a Muslim and a Peace Activist
This article was published in German in Spinnrad, Zeitschrift des Internationalen Versöhnungsbundes (Spinnrad Magazine of the International Reconciliation Society) – Austria, No. 1/April 2016
Good Day
About creating of a datebase for places of suffering and places of remembrance in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Since 2012-2015 the process of travel, photographing, gathering data and reviewing, has lasted. Travel and photographing was concluded by Nedžad Horozović and me. This text gives a small insight into what we went through.
From a culture of using the dead towards a culture of relating to the dead
Vukovar-Jasenovac-Prijedor Study Trip, 23 – 27 November 2015
Socio-political context 2015
september 2014 – september 2015
On Prijedor
A commemoration of the victims at Hrastova Glavica, in Trnopolje and Omarska, 6th of August 2015
Voyage(s) of the Damned
No one opens the door to people fleeing war.
Europe admires itself for having defeated fascism 70 years ago.
Europe is silent while in some corner of the world war still rages, just as in 1939, people fleeing war were universally unwanted.
The letter of support to nonviolent protests in Macedonia
Support in efforts to fight for the principles of democracy and rule of law and justice
Socio-political context 2014
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia