BalkanThemes Volume 1: Issue 2 – Roma

November 3rd, 2014

Roma family stands behind a broken window of their house where they were attacked by the local population in Osenik, which is located 20 km west of Sarajevo (Credit: Midhat Poturović)

The second issue of BalkanThemes examines the rights of Roma and other minorities in the countries of former Yugoslavia.

Minorities Roma

Confession: The Look of Contempt

“His gaze was full of contempt, but his words tried to convince me that he could not live without me. He insisted it was the only way."

July 2nd, 2018

Slobodan Blagovčanin

The Scars of Transition: Citizens Reduce Their Meal Portion More Each Day

The greatest obstacles in achieving reconciliation are public discourse, the absence of an agreed upon view of the past, and the nationalist rhetoric and hatred imposed upon us by the ruling elites. The dynamic process of transitioning from a socialist society to a society described as brutally capitalist, with clear nationalist features, has left its …

January 26th, 2015

Erna Duratović