IF NOT FOR THE DEAD, THEN FOR THOSE WHO ARE STILL ALIVE
Imagine that there was a memorial plaque on the wall of the former police station in the regional centre of Bosnia Posavina region. A memorial plaque with an inscription indicating that Bosniaks and...
View ArticleWe turned to more aggressive music because that’s where we found our peace
Music in the culture of remembrance during times of war in Kosovo Music can serve as significant emotional resource for people and create a sense of community. Moreover, it has the potential to...
View ArticleInteresting was the will and the love to create – the passion to create music!
Music, emotions, and joy in Kosovo’s wartime The concepts of war and joy may seem almost incompatible. On one hand, there are moments of violence, displacement, and trauma, while on the other, there...
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Exploring and Documenting the Past Through Sound
Sound researchers and composers say that for the process of memorialization, sounds can serve as allies for the societies whose past has been distorted or denied. For the people and places whose past...
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Sounds of a Lost Heritage
Nexhmije Selca closes her eyes wistfully and tries to find the words to say that most of the history of opera and ballet in Kosovo is just a sound. The first three decades of the entire repertoire of...
View ArticleInitiatives for naming streets and public spaces after women in Bosnia and...
The initiative ”Peace with a Woman’s Face” that involves 13 women’s non-governmental organisations from Bosnia and Herzegovina and forumZFD initiated a campaign entitled ”100 Women – 100 Streets Named...
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Capturing Memories, Creating Stories
The young people of the post-war generation in the Drenica region of Kosovo have come of age in a unique and complex context shaped by the aftermath of conflict and war. Growing up in the shadow of...
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Sound, Memory, and Public Spaces
From September 25 to 29, 2023, forumZFD Kosovo held a workshop on “Sound, Memory, and Public Places” in cooperation with the Centre for Narrative Practice in Prishtina/Kosovo and Creative Research...
View ArticleSarajevo’s Homage to Caca
In late September, an inscription was written on the memorial plaque in Kazani in huge red letters: Caco lives in us 10 br (the “10 br” being the acronym of the 10th Mountain Brigade of the Army of...
View ArticleWorking with the enemy for reconciliation and healing
Jo Berry daughter of a British politician who was killed in the 1984 IRA attack and the perpetrator Patrick Magee have struck up a friendship since 2000 when they decided to come to terms with their...
View ArticleMaglaj, Truth and Propaganda
“All this happening after the war is what is the hardest thing for me. Why do we, ordinary people who are not in politics, hate each other (Not everyone!) so much? Why are they not being convinced...
View ArticleCall for Application – Regional Research on Sound Art, Dealing with the Past,...
Terms of Reference (ToR) for “Regional Research on Sound Art, Dealing with the Past, and Public Spaces within the framework of the project Landscapes of Repair“ forumZFD supports people involved in...
View ArticleMarkale
It has now been thirty years since February 5th was marked on Sarajevo’s memory map simply and undeniably as – Markale. Situated in the city center, the green market got its name from the nearby...
View ArticleVahida Maglajlić Street in Banja Luka
For the past two years and two months activists have been fighting to name a street in Banja Luka, a town known as the “city of women,” after an exceptional woman – Vahida Maglajlić. This fight has...
View Article30 WASTED YEARS
It has been thirty years since the closing of the Heliodrom detention camp in Mostar, and I – which is seldomly the case – simply don’t know what to coherently, let alone optimistically, write on the...
View ArticleConflict, Peace, and Democracy: Analyzing Bosnia and Lebanon’s Experiences
Nikola Vučić Published in Association Network for Building Peace As a visiting scholar in Beirut, Lebanon, in fall 2023, I often found myself enjoying discussions with various actors on the challenges...
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There is no peace for victims of crimes committed by Serb military forces
Central news of RTRS, the public broadcasting service of the entity Republika Srpska, broadcast on February 20 and 21, provided detailed information about the travel of a team of doctors from the...
View ArticleThe miracle of Bosnian forgiveness
April 05, 2024 The willingness of citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina to forgive is difficult to explain, but has been reconfirmed many times. It is the result of the terrible suffering that they were...
View ArticleMemorialization of NATO air campaign in Kosovo
Every year on March 24, on the anniversary of NATO bombing, both officials and the media in Kosovo remember the contribution of the military Alliance in “stopping the genocide and contributing to...
View Article25 Years of Silence About the Responsibility for the Death of RTS Workers in...
“We will never get an answer—who was the one who agreed and eliminated us. And if I am alive in twenty years, I know that I won’t know more than I do today.” This statement was made five years ago,...
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