During the inaugural Western Balkans Peace Forum, which took place in Podgorica, Montenegro, on March 3rd and 4th, international organizations, a united front of peace activists and young people highlighted the values of regional cooperation and youth engagement in building a better and safer society.
The Interreligious Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina (IRC-BiH), joining representatives of Islamic, Orthodox, Catholic and Jewish religious communities, epitomizes a contextual approach to post-conflict coexistence and sustainable peacebuilding.
The fourth Peace Festival [Mir Festival] brought together 50 young people from Bosnia and Herzegovina to begin a journey through art, dialogue, learning and getting to know each other in Čardaci in Vitez.
The Mili Dueli are online poetry contests originating in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in which authors are judged by an international jury. Over the course of 12 years, they have included authors from 104 countries.
The Levantine island of Cyprus and the Balkan nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are not, for most, two places thought of as sharing a common history. For me however, as a Cypriot genocide researcher whose work focuses on the 1990s war in Bosnia, I have never stopped drawing parallels between these two 'post-conflict' spaces.