Materials

Order your copy

02/02/2010 - 

OBC products can be ordered with a mail to segreteria@balcanicaucaso.org, specifying title, quantity and postal address.
For each item the fee required is 6,00€ (to cover postal expenses).

The payment can be made:
-via bank trasfer to Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, IBAN: IT36H0830401851000051301038, specifying the title and the number of items in the 'reason for payment'

NOTE

Currently the DVD of "Zastava Planet. Journey to Kragujevac, the Turin of the Balkans” is no longer available. However it is downloadable from the website in different formats

Between the State and the EU. LGBT and queer in South Eastern Europe

09/11/2009 -  Anonymous User

[November 2009] For the LGBT and queer population of South Eastern Europe, 2009 has been marked by several violent episodes (including attacks to Pride parades in Slovenia and Serbia and to the Queer Sarajevo festival), without intervention by the local authorities and the national states. On the other hand, supra-national pressure and aspirations to EU integration have led to the discussion and/or approval of progressive laws. Against this backdrop of contrasting trends, LGBT and queer individuals of the Balkans are confronted with the choice between visibility and invisibility, hostile domestic contexts and European hopes, formal progress and all too real fear. This dossier by OBC collects chronicles, interviews, and analyses devoted to this year's developments in the queer world, the relationship with domestic and international institutions, and the role of transnational cooperation

Biographical notes

13/11/2009 -  Anonymous User

The biographical notes of the speakers at the international conference «The long-lasting '89»

The promoters

13/11/2009 -  Anonymous User

''The long lasting '89'' is a conference promoted by Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso toghether with the Autonomous Region Trentino - South Tirol and Tavolo trentino con il Kossovo, with the support of the Autonomous Province of Trento

Balkan cities

01/07/2009 -  Anonymous User

[July 2009] Ancient, multicolored, ever-changing, Balkan cities are in steady search of a balance between traditional models of urban development and the challenges of modernity. Recently interested by deep changes - often dramatic ones, and marked by violent competition between private and public interests, Balkan cities yet preserve their strong European spirit, often managing to elaborate original urbanistic solutions. Osservatorio sui Balcani e Caucaso takes you to a short trip between architecture, urban development, and socio-political debate

01/03/2010 - 

ORIGIN

The idea for creating Osservatorio sui Balcani emerged during the "Cantieri di pace" held in Venice in June 1999, in response to the demand for knowledge and debate with people, associations and institutions that for years had promoted peace and social cohabitation in the Balkans. In 2009 it changed its name into Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso (OBC) since it expanded its research to the Caucasus area as well.

OBC is promoted by Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti (Peace Bell Foundation).

PATRONS

Peace Bell Foundation : The Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded in 1968 with a presidential decree, adopted the project, which came into existence in 2000, and placed it side by side with the other project supported by the Foundation: UNIP - Università Internazionale delle Istituzioni dei Popoli per la Pace (International University of People's Institutions for Peace).Peace Bell Foundation pays special attention, among its goals, to the education of youth about a culture of peace, non-violence and human rights.

Forum Trentino for Peace and Human Rights : is a permanent organisation devoted to ensure civil society's participation in the implementation of the Trentino provincial law of 10 June 1991, n. 11 “Promotion and diffusion of peace culture.”

ONGOING DONORS

Autonomous Province of Trento : supports the initiatives and activities of OBC through a multiyear agreement signed with the Peace Bell Foundation. The province promotes and supports international solidarity with projects of decentralised cooperation in the Balkans; e.g. promotion of the Trentino-Kosovo Association and supporting the Prijedor Project Association and the Trentino Roundtable with Kraljevo Association. The Province is also active in other world areas.

Municipality of Rovereto : supports the Peace Bell Foundation’s promotion of peace and human rights culture through a multiyear agreement. The municipality also promotes decentralised cooperation activities belonging – along with other local organizations and associations – to the Trentino Roundtable with Kraljevo. The Centro di Educazione Permanente alla Pace (Centre of Permanent Peace Education) also operates in Rovereto and was founded in 1992 through an agreement between the municipality and the Committee of the Associations for Peace and Human Rights.

SPECIAL DONORS

European Commission : has funded since 2006 several OBC projects that foster the European collective memory. The OBC activities on human rights, democracy, conflicts and borders expresses the need to remember the past while building a yet-to-come Europe.

Regione autonoma Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol : supported in 2000 the start-up of OBC and several initiatives and paid particular attention to cohabitation, reconciliation, self-government and minority rights.

Municipality of Trento : has been an OBC partner since the beginning of the project. For many years, it has promoted international solidarity and decentralised cooperation with South-East Europe. It supports the Prijedor Project Association and the Local Democracy Agency of Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto : (Mutual/trustee savings bank of Trento and Rovereto Foundation) sponsored in 2006 a research course dedicated to the Balkan cinema industry from the 1970s to the present. From 2000 to 2002, the OBC research activities were part of the agreement drawn up with the Peace Bell Foundation to support its study and educational activities for peace and human rights.

01/03/2010 - 

MANAGEMENT and ADMINISTRATION

luisa chiodi

Luisa Chiodi - Director

Luisa has been the director of Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso since 2006. After completing her undergraduate studies in Political Science at the University of Milan, she earned her doctorate in social science from the European University Institute (Florence). From 2003 to 2008, she was a member of the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Bologna where she taught “History and Institutions of Eastern Europe.” She has edited several academic publications and coordinated many research projects. Her research interests focus on civil society and the transnational social dynamics of post-communism.

Marco Vender - Secretary General

After earning his diploma in Agriculture, Marco was employed by the Autonomous Province of Trento in 1990. Between 2000 and 2005, he was a member of the city council of Rovereto and was in charge of international cooperation projects. Since 1988, he has collaborated with the Committee of Associations for Peace and Human Rights of Rovereto. In 2001, he contributed to the establishment of “Tavolo Trentino con Kraljevo (Serbia)”, which aims to support projects of decentralised cooperation with South-East Europe. In 2001, he was seconded to the staff of Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso by the province's Immigration and International Cooperation Office.

Francesca Vanoni - Projects Manager

Francesca achieved a degree in International Relations at the University of Bologna and an MA in Central and South-East European Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London. Between 1998 and 2004, she coordinated various research projects on the topics of inter-ethnic dialogue and strengthening civil society in the Balkans, and has participated in cooperation projects of governmental and nongovernmental organisations in Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. She has worked for Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso since 2004.
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Chiara Sighele - promotion and project drafting

After completing her undergraduate studies in Political Science at the University of Pavia, Chiara earned an MA in European Project Management. Her research focused on the role of Germany's Turkish community in regards to Turkey's accession to the EU. She has also worked with the Immigrants' Integration office of the municipality of Konstanz, Germany and in the Italian Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has worked with Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso since 2007.

Chiara Cont - organisational and administrative assistant

Chiara earned a BA in Cultural Tourism from the Department of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Ferrara. She collaborates with the Autonomous Province of Trento in the areas of youth policies, community-building activities, and awareness-raising campaigns. Since 2008, she has worked with Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso in general administration and organising events.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Luca Rastello - on-line information director

As a journalist of La Repubblica. Luca was director of the monthly publications Narcomafie and L'Indice and collaborated with the weekly magazine Diario. He has worked as correspondent from the former Yugoslavia, the Caucasus region, Central Asia, the Horn of Africa and Latin America. He is author of the books La guerra in casa (Einaudi 1998); Piove all'insù (Bollati Boringhieri 2006); Io sono il mercato (Chiarelettere 2009); and his essays have appeared in many publications and collected works. From 1993 to 1997, he worked with Gruppo Abele with the Italian Consortium for Solidarity in the ex-Yugoslavia and with the Agencies of Local Democracy in Zavidovići and Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Luka Zanoni - editor-in-chief

After earning a BA in Theoretical Philosophy from the University of Milan, Luka completed post-graduate studies in History and Philosophy at Bocconi University in Milan. Between 1999 and 2005, he worked as an editor and translator for Notizie Est-Balcani and from 2002 to 2003 he edited the monthly publication Balcani economia. He speaks fluent Serbo-Croatian and has worked for Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso since 2001.

Roberta Bertoldi - editor and web-designer

Roberta has worked in the field of online information focusing on social themes and human rights issues for many years. From 2001 to 2004, she was editor of Unimondo, the Italian branch of the international network 'Oneworld’. An expert in content management systems, her main interest is graphic design for the web. She has been a part of the editorial staff of Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso since 2005.

Giorgio Comai - editor

After completing his BA in Political Science from the University of Bologna, Giorgio earned his MA in East European Studies and Research at the same university. He was a student and researcher at Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow and contributes to the publications and research of the University of Bologna's Istituto per l'Europa Centro-Orientale e Balcanica. His interests include the political systems of former Soviet republics, especially in the Caucasus region. He speaks fluent Russian and joined Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso in 2009.

Nicole Corritore – editor and media officer

Between 1992 and 2000, Nicole worked in international and decentralised cooperation projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as in Croatia. From 1992 to 1996, Radio Popolare Network employed her in information broadcasts. In her work with Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, she is in charge of relations with the press offices of local entities, NGOs, associations and other institutions. She is interested in environmental and cooperation issues. She speaks fluent Serbo-Croatian and joined Osservatorio in 2001.

Francesco Martino - editor

After completing a BA in Media Studies at the University of Trieste, Francesco worked in the field of international cooperation in Kosovo and then began working as a journalist. He has lived and worked in Bulgaria since 2005 where he collaborates with various Italian and international media. He speaks Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Macedonian. Based in Sofia, he has worked for Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso since 2006.

Andrea Oskari Rossini - editor and director of documentary films

Journalist, he earned a BA in Political Science from the University of Milan and an MA at the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI). He worked on many projects focused on decentralised cooperation in the Balkans and, in particular, for the Local Democracy Agency in Zavidovići, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A journalist and documentary film director, he speaks fluent Serbo-Croatian. He has worked for Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso since 2002 and is currently based in Sarajevo.

Davide Sighele -editor and director of documentary films

Journalist, he earned his BA in International and Diplomatic Studies at the University of Trieste. He has worked in the field of international cooperation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo and has authored numerous reports published in daily and weekly Italian publications. He has been an editor of Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso since 2001.

WEBMASTER

Roberto Antoniazzi - webmaster and system administrator

After earning a BA in Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Padua, Roberto worked as a project manager for various software companies. From 2001 to 2004, he was web manager for Unimondo, the Italian branch of the international network 'Oneworld’. In 2005, working in the field of open-source software, he helped co-found the company OpenContent. He has been webmaster and system administrator for Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso since 2007.

The Long-lasting '89

01/01/2009 -  Anonymous User

[2009] Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall. From the promise of re-unification to new national fragmentations, from the hope for lasting peace to new wars. Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso analyses those days' hopes, nowadays' disenchantment, and twenty years of change through the voices, ideas and remembrances of some of the protagonists in the Caucasus and the Balkans. Where 1989 has not come to an end yet.

After the bombs. 1999-2009

01/03/2009 -  Anonymous User

March 1999, NATO starts its offensive in Kosovo. Ten years has passed since then. Osservatorio Balcani and Caucaso remebers those days in this dossier: the refugees, the bombings, the generation born during the war

After Srebrenica. Past and present - DVD NO MORE AVAILABLE

02/02/2010 - 

Ten years after the massacre of July 1995, this is the story of the town that has become a symbol of ethnic cleansing and racist violence in Europe. The documentary brings the viewer from Tuzla - where women fight for the investigation of their loved ones' disappearance, through Potočari - former headquarter of international peace forces, and all the way to Srebrenica. Going back and forth between present times, history, and memory, parallel narratives unfold, surrounded by a sense of alienation, in the heart of a town where the conflict does not yet seem to have found an end. “After Srebrenica” was filmed thanks to the support of the Autonomous Province of Trento.