THE ALL-SERBIAN MANIPULATION OF THE CRIME COMMITTED IN THE NAME OF THE...
There’s nothing more horrifying in the recent history of the Balkans than July 1995 and Srebrenica. No matter how you personally choose to define “horrifying,” “recent history,” and the terms “we” and...
View ArticleNO ONE’S VICTIMS
In early 2022, the War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office (TRZ) in Serbia indicted four Croatian pilots for their alleged responsibility in air attacks against civilians. Near Kapljuh in Bosnia and...
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The Kids No One Asked For
A person’s birthplace plays an important role in identity formation. I personally do not consider Stolac only my home, but also the place in which I became aware of the importance of an active...
View ArticleAbout Aida Buturović and books.
The life of a person is more valuable than any book, and the life of books renders persons immortal. However, I also remember, i.e. see even now the bodies of books crackling on a hot August day in...
View Article90’s between Oda and Cafeteria II: Monumentality and Intimacy
We must immerse ourselves in the atmospheric experience of architecture, where it seems that there is a door hidden that can open us a wider horizon of dealing with the past. Atmospheric architecture...
View ArticleAural Heterotopias: Garages and Basements
Philosopher Emil Cioran gives a special status to music in our being-in-the-world. He, with a masterful lucidity, affirms that “we carry in us all the music that we have not heard in our life, which...
View ArticlePublishing in the service of remembrance policy
Do you know letters of self-compassion? We are not talking about goodbye letters of authors parting with their identities and personalities they inherited nor about notes about the end of social and...
View ArticleBrigadier, which army plants flowers while retreating?*
The Croatian War of the 1990s, for Croatian political elites, is one of the historical periods often and gladly used to promote crude ethno-nationalism, exploit the suffering of victims, and ignore...
View ArticleFrom the siege to a phenomenon: the story about the Sarajevo Film Festival
The Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) is not only the most important film festival in South East Europe, but also a symbol of unquestionable courage and unwavering spirit of a city that survived one of the...
View ArticlePain, Strength and Family: A Story About Transgenerational Trauma
‘‘I was dreaming that they were after me and wanted to kill me…” – This could be a statement by someone who survived the horrors of a war, someone plagued by trauma that is never forgotten, someone...
View ArticleHistory is not on our side, but we will fix this
I graduated from primary and secondary general education school a decade and a half ago. There was no time to learn about our contemporary history in any of the final grades shortly before the end of...
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Moving forward is a circle
Feature image: Luca Tesei Li Bassi / forumZFD September 15, 2023, felt like any other workday for a court monitor like me as I prepared to leave home to report on court proceedings. That day, however,...
View Article80th Anniversary
Each year when the day marking the liberation of Belgrade from fascism arrives, especially when it’s a significant round-number anniversary, there is a sense of anxiety about how it will be officially...
View Article7 Years Since the Closure of the Hague Tribunal and Its Legacy, memory, a...
The Hague Tribunal, a name well-known to everyone living in this region, evokes strong opinions—whether collective or individual. Unfortunately, it has become evident that while the majority hold an...
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“The village of Krusha e Madhe has persevered”
Feature image: Bubulina Peni / forumZFD As the youngest child in my family and the only one born after the war in Kosovo, I experienced these events through a limited lens — only through the stories...
View ArticleDefying darkness
Numerous first-aid guides about the process of facing the past agree on the first step, without which the process itself is meaningless: exercising self-understanding. Irrespective of the fact whether...
View ArticleCultures of Memory, Oblivion, and Neglect
There is no culture of memory without confronting the culture of oblivion. According to Prof. Dr. Đokica Jovanović, the culture of memory is only as possible as the ideologized culture of oblivion...
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