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.

From Prosecution to Pride: Goran Miletić on the Evolution of LGBT Activism in the Western Balkans

Goran Miletić, Civil Rights Defenders’ Program Director for the Western Balkans, has been involved in LGBT and wider human rights activism since the early 1990s. Miletić sat down with Balkan Diskurs to discuss how the nature of LGBT activism in the Western Balkans has evolved over the course of his career, how he sees the current state of affairs and what he sees for the future of LGBT activism in the region.

June 12th, 2017

Samantha Owens

Journalists are Partly to Blame for Hate Speech

Incitement, slander and other forms of hate speech are present in the media, but mainly as the weapon of political powers. Opinions are divided on whether or not journalists are to blame for this situation.

February 8th, 2016

Mladen Lakić