DWP-BALKAN

It’s summertime. A time when everyone, no matter where we are from, gathers here in Prespa, where our families originate from. It is a time to see each other, to celebrate the holidays, but also to talk about “our affairs” in the villages. Like every summer in the past decade, I am here in the village of Brajchino, the southernmost point of Macedonia on the slopes of Peliste...

For the past three decades, foreigners working in embassies, international civilian and military missions, and NGOs — known in Kosovo simply as “the internationals” — have had a significant impact on Kosovo’s statebuilding, economy, and, perhaps most importantly, some of the most sensitive questions of transitional justice. While they have been praised for b...

At the beginning of August, 31 years will have passed since the end of Operation Storm, the military-police operation known in Croatian as Oluja. More than three decades later, it remains one of the most sensitive and symbolically significant events in the collective memory of Croatia and Serbia, as well as across the broader post-Yugoslav region. Numerous unresolve...

Thirty years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, peace education is proving to be an ever greater necessity. Although formal education is not focused on this, non-governmental organisations, sometimes in collaboration with institutions, have long taken the initiative and realised that they will guide the next literate generations through social change. However, assuming...

Bosnian law does not provide for a special procedure for the burial of persons convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. The remains are handed over to the family, as in any other case. However, it is at this point that the question arises – what happens when a grave ceases to be a place of private remembrance and becomes a space for political mobilisatio...