29th Anniversary of the Fall of Vukovar Commemorated
The 29th anniversary of the fall of Vukovar has been commemorated just recently. The city had been under siege for...
The Politics of Memory and Remembrance Practices in Southeast Europe
Over the past two decades, diverse bottom-up and top-down memory politics and remembrance practices have evolved in Southeast Europe. They...
RECOM Reconciliation Network: A Contribution to the Pluralistic Interpretations of the “Storm“ Military and Police Operation in Croatia and Serbia
Reconciliation and Official Memory Politics: Commemorations of the Victory and of the Victims of Operation Storm in Croatia and Serbia...
Memory and South East Europe: Global currents of activism and contestation–Debate
Debate on memory in South East Europe in a global context, hosted by BISA on Thursday, September 24, 2020 The...
Forgotten Victims: ‘Hundreds of Prisoners’ Killed by Bosnian Serbs at School
In the latest in the Forgotten Victims series, BIRN asks why there have been no convictions for the brutal abuse...
Moral Remembrance and New Inequalities
A passage from Lea David’s article “Moral Remembrance and New Inequalities”, initially published in Global Perspectives journal The article traces...
ArchiWar – The Exhibition That Should Have Never Been Created
“These names should have never been read, this exhibition should have never been created, the genocide in Srebrenica should have...
BIRN – Killings of Yugoslav Prisoners of War Commemorated in Croatia
A commemoration was held in the Croatian town of Karlovac to commemorate 13 Yugoslav People’s Army soldiers killed in 1991 by a Croatian policeman and highlight how the war harmed both Serbs and Croats.
Memory and South East Europe: Global currents of activism and contestation
The British International Studies Association hosts an online debate about memorialization in South East Europe in a global context.
BIRN: Bosnian Croats Remember ‘Cruel and Brutal’ Uzdol Massacre
A commemoration was held to mark the anniversary of the killings of 29 Bosnian Croat civilians including children and old people, as well as 12 Croatian Defence Council fighters, in the village of Uzdol in September 1993.
BIRN – Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Grabovica Massacre: The Soldiers Who Couldn’t Forget
Two soldiers who were on opposing sides when Bosnian Army troops massacred 33 Bosnian Croats in 1993. Now they are both working to ensure that the crime is not forgotten.
BIRN – ‘He Was Gone’: Video Memories of the Balkan Wars’ Missing Persons
Missing persons’ relatives from Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia remember their loved ones missing since the wars of the 1990s on the Int'l Day of the Disappeared.
