Programme
Dealing with the Past is one of the main themes forumZFD is focusing on. Photo: Marko Krojač
Last weekend, two connected events dealing with the topic “Gender and Peacebuilding” were organized in Belgrade’s Center for Cultural Decontamination, as a result of the cooperation of forum...
In Mostar, from July 16-21, 18 high-school students, aged 16-17 years, from various locations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Kosovo met for the first time to learn about and discuss shared a...
forumZFD and the Danas Daily held an important panel discussion in Belgrade.
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forumZFD and partners are organizing an international youth workcamp on “Dealing with the Past and Jewish History in the Balkans”....
What language do we have in mind when we speak of “BHSC” or “CBSM”? A series of regional debates on the political misuse of linguistic science in former Yugoslavia and on the four regional languages that developed from Serbo-Croatian, now belonging to a group known as “BHSC” or “CBSM”.
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Ordinary people is a contribution to freedom of expression and reduction of hate speech in the media in Serbia and Kosovo through investigative reporting on human rights, on tolerance and inter-ethnic trust.
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The series of activities under "MemorInmotion goes Western Balkans" proposed by forumZFD in BiH together with local partners, is a continuation of the first edition of the pedagogical tool “MemorIn...
The 'Living Together' project involved filming five documentaries and ten research articles about 'positive examples' during the wars in former Yugoslavia....
The academic conference “Interpretations of Yugoslav Conflicts and its Consequences: From Radical Disagreement to Dialogue” is a joint project by forumZFD and its partners, Nansen Dialogue Centre Serbia and the Center for Peace Studies (Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade). It took place on the 13–14 November 2015 at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade.
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In 2015, forumZFD has launched a new regional website focusing on topics related to dealing with the past (DwP) in the Western Balkans....
The Balkan.Perspectives magazine is an answer to the conflicting historical narratives in the Western Balkans and aims to present alternative memory and ways of dealing with the past in Se...
Fiery Greetings is an art-based research project that is proposing a new interpretation of the Yugoslav socialist state, its dominant structures and legacy, focusing on the representation of childhood. At the same time, the project explores the possibility of the collective and individual memory of a country that no longer exists.
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The “Mirëdita – Dobar dan!” festival was first established in 2014 by the Belgrade-based organisations Civic Initiatives and Policy Centre, and Pristina-based Integra in partnership with the Kosovo...
The importance of learning and education is quite obvious. It involves so much more than merely transmitting knowledge to another generation....
Among the many problems that local communities in Macedonia face, strained relationships between ethnic groups often give rise to issues that are difficult to deal with.
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The Kosovo Oral History Initiative (KOHI) is a collective of women of different generations, nationalities and competences whose mission is to record life stories....
In partnership with the Association of History Teachers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUROCLIO HIP BiH), Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR-BiH), Humanity in Action Bosnia and Herzegovina, and An...
Award-winning Serbian artist Vladimir Miladinović has made the wartime past the focus of his work....
The MOnuMENTI photo exhibition presents monuments and the ‘stories’ behind them in order to show how concepts of identity have developed in the countries of the Western Balkans from the early twent...
Media outlets in the Western Balkans are in a difficult situation. Financial problems, legal and political pressure as well as shady business structures make it almost impossible for journalists to report on conflicts accurately.
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Four Faces of Omarska is an ongoing art project that questions strategies of memorial production from the position of those whose experience and knowledge have been subjugated, excluded and disqual...
08-09-2017 Brought together by a shared vision for the area of Southeast Europe, the CDRSEE and the resource platform “Dealing with the past” are joining forces to promote a culture of peace and reconciliation... read more
07-24-2017 Dear colleagues, partners and friends, Forum Civil Peace Service (forumZFD), Youth Cultural Center Bitola, the Holocaust Fund for the Jews of Macedonia, pax christi Aachen and The Ideas Partnership... read more
06-26-2017 Due to the recent developments concerning our project "Ordinary People" when two film screenings in Niš and Kraljevo had to be cancelled due to violence and death threats to the crew and guests, our... read more
06-01-2017 We are happy to announce that the new media product, Blog/Vlog, on our online regional platform about Dealing with the Past www.dwp-balkan.org, is officially launched. The DwP Blog/Vlog is a... read more
