No Room for Truth?

April 29th, 2015

How do truth, peace and justice interact in the transitional justice mechanisms established for the former Yugoslavia?

Dayton ICTY International Community Josip Broz Tito

Taylor McConnell

Taylor McConnell completed an MSc in International Development at the University of Edinburgh in 2015. Originally from Central Pennsylvania, Taylor traveled through the Balkans and developed a keen interest in the post-war history of Bosnia, particularly in reconciling national identity, memory and development policy, leading him to move to Sarajevo in May 2015.

It Was Once Used to Kill, but Now It’s a Flowerpot

In Sarajevo’s Baščaršija (Old Town), some craft shops offer tourists unusual souvenirs – items from the war that could have served as reminders of a bloody and turbulent past in Bosnia and Herzegovina but have instead been transformed into something beautiful.

January 30th, 2018

Armin Durgut

Veterans’ Memorials in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Remembrance, Identity, and Division

In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), monuments and memorials are erected in various places—along main roads, in city squares, next to schools, in cemeteries, on hills overlooking cities, along riverbanks, and on bridges.

June 22nd, 2026

Alem Bajramović