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Returning Home in Eastern Bosnia Ethnic cleansing during the Bosnia War (1992-95) destroyed many communities that had previously been multi-ethnic. One such example is Bratunac, a small city in Eastern Bosnia, not far from Srebrenica. Many of the Bosniak community that was forced to abandon their homes thought that they would never return, or if [...]
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Posts Tagged ‘Bosnia’
Solid Proof that a Mutual Life is Possible
Lidja Skaro on Bosnia-Herzegovina
Rolf Ekeus, International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) Commissioner and OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, states “The issue of persons missing from armed conflicts, from abuses of human rights and from other crimes against humanity is a global concern, and ICMP is the only organisation in the world that specifically addresses the complexities of [...]
Musicians Without Borders
Since June 2005, the international peacebuilding organisation Musicians Without Borders has been working in Bosnia Herzegovina to create conditions where music and culture play a significant role in the revitalisation of local communities, peaceful coexistence and protection of human rights. They believe that it is relatively easy for a community to rebuild its physical infrastructure [...]
Resource Ecological Centre Zenica
Resource Ecological Centre is a network of 12 NGOs from across Bosnia Herzegovina which works on environmental protection, education and peacebuilding through forms of non-formal education such as organising youth camps and workshops, and ecological awareness for the protection and preservation of the environment in the Doboj Zenica region. They provide training, consultancy, and other [...]
Doboj Rotor
Doboj Rotor works in the Zenica Doboj region stimulating economic growth by developing tourism-building projects that unite people across ethnic and national lines. Founded on the idea that if people are working together in a multi-ethnic and peaceful environment to achieve better economic conditions, violent conflict, and the loss of economic stability it brings, is [...]
Centre For Education, Travnik (CET)
The Centre for Education Travnik (CET) runs programmes of youth work in conflict damaged communities. Their driving goals are to widen the possibilities for youth and to motivate them into taking responsibility for their communities. They have managed to implement many projects in the region which have created multi-ethnic groups of young people who are [...]
Stories
Local Family Associations in Bosnia Lidja Skaro of the International Commission on Missing Persons talks of the importance of involving local family associations in Bosnia-Hezegovina. From the Editors Amnesty International: Bosnia & Herzegovina: ‘Whose justice?’ – The women of Bosnia and Herzegovina are still waiting. (Published September 2009) During the 1992 – 1995 Bosnia and [...]
Conflict Profile
The war in Bosnia (1992-1995) was the most bloody of the conflicts that took place with the breakup of Yugoslavia. The vicious conflict split the state largely (though not exclusively) along ethnic lines, with nationalist parties and then armies representing Serbs, Croatians and the predominantly Muslim Bosniak populations. The Bosnian War left an estimated 100,000 [...]
Bosnia-Herzegovina
The Bosnian War (1992-1995) was the bloodiest in Europe since World War II. The bitter ethnic conflict has left a country deeply divided between the Serb, Croat and Bosniak populations. Bosnia is currently separated into two ‘entities’ – the ‘Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina’, which has a Bosniak majority with a sizeable Croat minority, and [...]
