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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The perils of procedural democracy: a lesson from BosniaThe lack of substantive democracy has been bringing citizens onto the streets throughout the European Union, the...
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Published in: 50.50"We are hungry in three languages": citizens protest in BosniaDemonstrations have spread rapidly across Bosnia, with citizens organizing popular assemblies to voice their...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From Kiev to Kosovo: a critical junctureFrom Ukraine to the Balkans, the last twenty-four years have witnessed political elites preaching democracy while...
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Published in: openSecurityBosnian census risks deepening ethnic riftsPoliticians rush to claim triumph for their own particular group, even though census data on ethnicity have not come out yet.
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Published in: 50.50Immunity and impunity in peace keeping: the protection gap
Trafficking and sexual exploitation are an integral part of armed conflict and its aftermath. Madeleine Rees argues...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual violence in Bosnia: how war lives on in everyday life
Rape has been recognized as a war crime in international and Bosnian law, but women survivors seldom receive the...
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Published in: 50.50Syria: women, peacework, and the lesson from Bosnia
Below the radar of the Geneva-2 peace talks, Bosnian and Syrian women are meeting to discuss the lessons that must...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Bosnian national football team: a case study in post-conflict institution buildingThe Bosnian national football team provides an inspiring example of what Bosnian society could become, given the...
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Published in: 50.50Slavenka Drakulić: violence, memory, and the nationWriter and journalist Slavenka Drakulić reflects on the use of sexual violence in war, the psyche in conflict, and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How to write about the BalkansA handy guide for journalists on how to write about this mysterious and brooding region.
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Published in: HomeBosnia’s baby revolution: is the protest movement coming of age?For the first time since independence, Bosnians of all stripes are coming together in a show of unity, to protest...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?‘We are all in this together’: a civic awakening in Bosnia-HerzegovinaIn Bosnia-Herzegovina, a seemingly trivial administrative issue ignited an unprecedented movement of civic...
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Published in: HomePresident Budimir of Bosnia arrested on charges of corruption
Accused of receiving bribes to pardon convicts, the President of Bosnia is one of a number of senior officials...
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Published in: HomeRequiem for a court
What is more important: to dispense justice or to achieve some kind of peace? The court in The Hague wrote the...
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Published in: HomePost-Dayton Bosnia: the other path
The virtuous circle initiated by the Dayton-Paris agreement has turned into a vicious one. As elsewhere in Europe,...
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Published in: 50.50Longing for ‘normality’: women’s experience of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina
Returning to Bosnia-Herzegovina after 17 years, Cynthia Cockburn finds Bosnian women criticizing their country's...
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Published in: HomeTruth and Reconciliation: a new political subjectivity for post-Yugoslavs?'Truth and Reconciliation' is a paradigm entrapped within the limits of the existing state’s institutional...
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Published in: HomeSrebrenica in 2012: carving out the space to rememberThis week, a funeral for five hundred genocide victims marked the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in...
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Published in: HomeA memorial in exile in London’s Olympics: orbits of responsibilityTwo sets of extraordinary statistics attached to contemporary events are not connected to each other in a...
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Published in: HomeBosnia twenty years on: victims return to Višegrad to bury their dead
The author recalls the atrocities committed around Višegrad twenty years ago and suggests that even today, twenty...
