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.

Mama’s Boys: A Personal Narrative about the Concept of Masculinity in BiH

“I have some shame to hang out with my girl and to tell my mom not to come in,” reports Niko[1], age 26, who was kind enough to tell me about his close relationship to his mother. The idea of a mama’s boy was first conceptualized by the renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. “Mama’s boy” was …

March 16th, 2015

Lucinda Klarich-Kahn

Balkan rap: Activism in music will never die out

Music cares not for geographic and other boundaries. Fans and admirers of the same kind of music may easily find each other and be connected, ignoring everything that divides them.

February 12th, 2024

Melani Isović