The Weight of Remembrance: Museums’ Considerations in Portraying the Past
Bosnia and Herzegovina and especially its capital city Sarajevo are places that are rich with museums and cultural life.
Denied Commemoration: Srebrenica’s Execution Sites and the Challenges of Memorialization
Near the town of Petkovci in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, an unkept rocky road allows visitors to take a detour to a local dam.
A Placeholder Memorial for the Srebrenica Genocide in The Hague
Thirty years after the Srebrenica genocide, a placeholder memorial was unveiled in The Hague in July 2025.
Memorializing Women Victims of War in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), post-war monuments represent the political and ethnic forces of localities, encouraging a narrative in which women often have no voice.
Memorials and Commemorations in Prijedor: Preserving Facts or Entrenching Divisions?
Once a well-known iron ore mine, after 1992, the name Omarska became synonymous with the most notorious detention camp where Bosniaks and Croats from the Prijedor area were tortured and killed.
Tuzla’s Kapija: A Place of Memory and A Crime Awaiting Justice
Powerful verses are engraved at the Kapija Memorial, where, on Youth Day, May 25th, 1995, a massacre was committed against the young people of Tuzla.