Pre-election posters, sponsored videos on TikTok and Instagram, and lively political debates on television have become part of everyday life for young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), regardless of how interested they are in politics.
Although young people are often referred to as the future of society, the question arises ahead of the 2026 elections scheduled for October 4 in Bosnia and Herzegovina: to what extent are they truly part of its political present?
When Bosnia and Herzegovina qualified for the 2026 World Cup in the USA, Mexico and Canada, celebrations erupted across the country and throughout Bosnian communities around the world.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as well as regionally and around the globe, there is a growing trend of intertwining religious and ethnic identities. The fusion of religion and politics can be seen in the construction of monuments to armies on religious properties.
After visiting sites of suffering, talking to victims and witnesses, and conducting research, more than one hundred young people from the countries of the former Yugoslavia presented their views on some the most controversial events in the region during the 1900s in Shared Narratives, a publication of the Croatian Youth Initiative for Human Rights. The aim of the project was to encourage constructive dialogue and mutual understanding about the basic facts of the past in order to build a better future.
Since February 1st, 1888, the National Museum has struggled with financial problems. However, that has not stopped it from becoming one of the most important scientific, educational, and cultural institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina.