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Zelenkovac, the Bosnian peace village

25/03/2013 -  Daniele Canepa

Zelenkovac is an eco-tourist village in the Bosnian mountains, not far from Banja Luka, hosting artists and travellers from all over the world. According to his founder, Boro Janković, its beauty has a mission

Mila Turajlić and the Balkan cinema

25/03/2013

Mila Turajlić, film director, author of Cinema Komunisto, was our guest at Dialogues on cinema, a series of events promoted in the frame of the European project Tell Europe to Europe

Kosovo: Challenging Homophobia

21/03/2013 -  Francesco Gradari

“Challenging Homophobia” is the title of the first European project for the protection and promotion of the rights of LGBT people in Kosovo.It was started to support a growing LGBT community, but has been intimidated by violent episodes tolerated by the institutions. Simon Maljevac from the organization Legebitra is one of the promoters of this initiative

Who owns Albania's media?

18/03/2013 -  Marjola Rukaj

Being a journalist in Albania is a difficult job. So tells us Axel Kronholm, a Finnish journalist who devoted his dissertation to press freedom in the country

Macedonian political crisis: opposition to run in local elections

14/03/2013 -  Risto Karajkov

Thanks to the mediation of Štefan Füle, EU Commissioner for the Enlargement, the Social Democratic Macedonian opposition declined to boycott the local elections, scheduled for March 24. The institutional crisis is over, but the problems of democratic functioning of the institutions remain

The distance between the ICTY and us

05/03/2013 -  Refik Hodžić

The ICTY is monumentally important, but it forgot its true constituents. The recent, appeal judgments in the Gotovina and Perišić cases, the struggle for a common narrative about the traumatic past of the region

Justice far from reconciliation

05/03/2013 -  Janine N. Clark

The ICTY has helped to entrench competing ethnic narratives and rival claims of victimhood. The lesson of the South African experience and the importance of localized bodies for dealing with the past

Day 5: the ICTY debate

26/02/2013 -  Andrea Oskari Rossini

The Tribunal did its job as a criminal court, without reaching local societies. A first round up of the debate

Israel-Turkey: testing for normalization

13/03/2013 -  Alberto Tetta Tel Aviv

In 2010, Turkey and Israel froze bilateral ties following the attack to the Mavi Marmara ship. The dialogue between the two Countries, however, has never stopped

Little Nora brings Croatians together

19/02/2013 -  Drago Hedl Osijek

In just a few days, the Croatian civil society raised a million Dollars so that a seriously ill 5-year-old girl could get treatment. Now there is not a single person in Croatia who does not know who little Nora Šitum is