In the very center of Tuzla, in a place where thousands of people pass by every day, two artists have been part of the city's everyday life for decades. The sculptures of the writer Meša Selimović and the painter Ismet Mujezinović are not just monuments but widely recognized symbols of the city’s identity.
In a region where history is so often told as competing, mutually exclusive stories, the fourth “State of Peace” Youth Academy set out to test a different premise: that different experiences of the past don't have to produce separate futures.
The erection of monuments and memorials is one form of commemoration. They play an important role in informing and educating people about human rights violations.
We will meet again one day, When small voices fall silent, So the last may lose their strength, It is not water that puts it out, but the sweat of the brave, Scream for those who want to live— these are some of the messages of Midhat Kapetanović's illustrations, which symbolically honor or call attention to events in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the region, and beyond.