Democracy

The app"Aktiv1st" tracks the social media activity of Socialist Party members and supporters, rewarding them with points for all their likes and shares, and ranking them in a list to foster peer-to-peer competition.

The need for practitioners and history promoters to do historical work “beyond the walls of the traditional classroom” is constantly growing. One of the main takeaways from our recent study trip to Berlin is that public and open discussions about the past and remembering are crucial for building future welfare.

Call for self-identified feminist researchers, working at universities, research institutes, think tanks, research NGOs and as independent scholars, holding a minimum MA degree, and coming from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia or Serbia are kindly invited to join the GenPolSEE. Male and researchers from minority and under-represented communities are especially encouraged to apply. Interest to join the network is to be expressed by sending an email with the latest CV (incl. publication list) in English language, together with a cover letter (ca. one A4 page), elaborating your motivation, expectations and what you can contribute to the network. The expression of interest should be sent not later than 15 August 2022.    

The Western Balkans 6 Strategy Group, working under the auspices of the Heinrich Boll Stiftung, assesses the Open Balkan project as an enterprise that would adversely compete with the Berlin Process and, at the same time, lead regional integration towards an unacceptable and fragmented direction.

A hybrid two-days conference in Sarajevo created space for grassroots activists, academia, media professionals, policy-makers and others engaged in the region to discuss timely issues around migration and refugee policies in the region and on EU level.

Democratic values and principles have been under fire in Bosnia and Herzegovina for years, from within and without, a battle between ethnocracy and democracy is being waged in the country at the expense of its citizens.

The shrinking spaces for action, an increase in nationalism and authoritarianism, as well as anti-feminist and right-wing populist rhetoric are affecting the work of organizations and individuals active in the feminist and gender-political field. Black women, Indigenous women, women with disabilities, women with non-conforming sexual orientation and gender identity, and other marginalized groups are further disadvantaged and/or criminalized by society and by the laws of their respective countries. Discrimination usually has a lasting effect on all areas of life - education, work, family life, health - and can lead to various challenges. Feminists around the world have responded to these challenges through mobilisation and solidarity. More information

This essay investigates the effects of contemporary migrations on the constitution of a new epoch of peace, with particular emphasis on the European Union as a desired integrating entity for hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from their hearths.

The situation in which Bosnia and Herzegovina finds itself today requires an equal approach of Europeans towards our country, considering that we are going through the most severe political crisis since the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement. That is why the atmosphere in the country is unequivocally reminiscent of the beginning of the 1990s. This is why the Members of the European Parliament came to hear the people - not only the officials of Bosnia and Herzegovina or representatives of the civil society, but also the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, those who fear the most.  

With this panel, we came to the conclusion that the conditions for changing the Constitution and the Election Law have not been met due to the fact that Bosnia and Herzegovina is in the pre-election year, and that the work of state institutions, including the Parliamentary Assembly of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been blocked by secessionist forces from the Republika Srpska, while at the same time the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina is de facto in a technical mandate, due to the HDZ obstructions in the establishing the government at that level in accordance with the results of previous elections.