Reconciliation>Opinion and Analyses

23.07.2008 Valentina Pellizzer, owpsee executive directress reflects on the arrest of war criminal and the Hague indictee Radovan Karadžić, in her blogg marginalije.blogger.ba.

27.02.2008 Creation of political independence starts with the declaration. Ideally, if all relations and interests in a given geographic area are harmonised, or solved, the start of independence gets its logical continuation in the UN, where that status of independent state is made formal. Obviously, Kosovo not exactly in that ideal position and it needs much more than just political independence.

25.02.2008 Andrej Nosov and Dragan Popović from the Youth Initaitive for Human Rights write about the new relations between Serbia and Kosovo after the latter declared independence.

11.12.2007 After 8 years of operation, the Stability Pact - often referred to as the Marshall Plan for the Balkans - is phasing out, writes Risto Karajkov, a Postgraduate Student of International Development in Bologna and NGO activist.

04.04.2007 The Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies at Columbia University in New York City has recently joined the efforts to find a solution that would bring the advantages to all the parties, by inviting a scholar from Indiana University at Bloomington School of Law, Professor Timothy William Waters.

08.03.2007 The sigh after the announcement of the ruling by the International Court of Justice in the Hague, by Valentina Pellizzer, Executive Manageress of OWPSEE.

04.08.2006 The “Objection for Peace” Regional Network, throughout the last four years of its existence, has opposed any type of war and violence, has worked on prevention and termination of ongoing wars, and remains dedicated to principles and values of pacifism and non-violence in its work to demilitarize public awareness.

19.07.2006 Six rounds into the talks on Kosovo’s future in Vienna, it seems that children and children rights’ issues were not and are not likely to be put onto the agenda of the Kosovo Status Talks. Save the Children reminds and urges the international community not to neglect children and education during the negotiations.

19.06.2006 OKC Abrasevic, Mostar-based youth cultural centre reacts at the recent violent riots that erupted in the city on the Neretva after the Croatia-Brazil football match played at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

04.05.2006 The Regional Conscientious Objection Network «Objection for Peace» is a coalition of organizations that work on promotion of the right to conscientious objection in the region of Southeast Europe. It was established in February 2003, with the aim to achieve greater protection for the right to conscientious objection and its correct implementation in legislation and practice, in accordance with the valid legislation on regional level, through joint action.

25.04.2006 Fadil Maloku, Executive Director of the Institute for Democracy and Ethnic Relations of Kosovo and Professor of Globalization and Civilizations at the UP Sociology Department, discusses the possible models for solution of the autonomy of ethnic minorities in Kosovo after the negotiations on the final status of the province are completed.

19.04.2006 Lina Kosturova-Unkovska, Director of the Centre for Psychosocial and Crisis Action, has worked on post-conflict stress and trauma treatment, as well as community development through activities designed for children, since the start of wars in former Yugoslavia. The interview was taken from Gragjanski svet newsletter.

10.11.2005 More than 30,000 small arms and light weapons (SALW) from the Armed Forces of Bosnia-Herzegovina will be destroyed this year. The action is part of the Small Arms Control and Reduction Project in BiH (SACBiH), developed in 2004 by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and which is supported by the OSCE Mission to BiH and EUFOR.

07.11.2005 The “Ten Years of Dayton and Beyond” International Conference for Bosnia and Herzegovina started today at the International Conference Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The Conference will end tomorrow, October 21. Massimo Moratti, a participant in the Conference, kindly offered to share his views on the event and its messages.

12.08.2005 On July 11, over 30,000 people gathered at the Potocari Memorial Centre, for the Commemoration Ceremony on the 10th Anniversary of the Genocide. The majority of them were family members that came there to mourn their dead, as well as to burry the remains of 610 identified victims, exhumed from mass graves across Eastern Bosnia.

08.08.2005 The Day of Gratitude is a national holiday in Croatia, marking the memory of the 1995 military offensive “Storm”, which is represented by politicians and the media as liberation of Croatian land from the occupation nof the Yugoslav Army. Serbia commemorates, on the very same day, the victims of the campaign and the expulsion of over 150 thousand Serb civilians. The media don’t think, don’t count, don’t analyze – they merely present the attempts to woo the voters. The winking at the voters, with nationalist sly grin, as any flirt, heats up the passions of the lowest kind: fear, hatred, intolerance.

05.08.2005 Last Friday, July 29, Ljiljana Zelen Karadjic, the wife of the war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, surprised Bosnian, Serbian and global public and political establishment with the call to her husband to surrender to the authorities.

26.07.2005 Miljenko Dereta, Executive Director of Civic Initiatives gave an interview for “Kaziprst” (Index Finger) programme of B92 Radio. He spoke on the subject of the tenth anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica.

20.07.2005 Despite the fact that the people of Mostar are still living in a city which suffers from a troubled past, they are now searching for a means to communicate with their government officials in the hope of getting their most basic municipal needs met. Mostar is currently adjusting to the Office of the High Representative’s (OHR) decision to impose the unification of the six municipalities into one.

13.07.2005 Srebrenica, the town that witnessed the massacre of over 7,000 men and boys in 1995, today struggles to survive despite high unemployment and the pervasive lack of faith citizens have in the political process.