Kosovo Massacre Anniversary Brings Memories of a Missing Mother
Ahead of the anniversary of the killings of 45 Kosovo Albanians in Recak/Racak in 1999 – a massacre that helped...
Wartime Killing of Serb Family Commemorated in Croatia
Croatian anti-fascist activists and the country’s deputy prime minister commemorated the anniversary of the wartime killing in Zagreb of three...
Poland and Germany: 50 years since Willy Brandt’s historic gesture
On December 7, 1970, German Chancellor Willy Brandt fell to his knees at the memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto. The...
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.
