Researching Balkans
Researching Balkans
The Balkans changes perceptions
Researching Balkans
Boarding the Plane to Belgrade: Change of Perspective
Researching Balkans
Unprepared: My Journey Through an Unexpected Month
About Us
Researching Balkans is the work of students from the SIT Balkans Peace
and Conflict Studies program. Our students cover the scenes, people and
issues of this challenging region throughout their semester in Belgrade.
Researching Balkans collects the best of their work with the aim of
becoming a repository of insightful and thoughtful research on the
Balkans.
Published Stories
The Guardian | Blocked in the Balkans: the refugees that Europe won’t allow in
This story was first published in The Guardian on August 8, 2017. by Finnian James SIT Spring 2017 Lake Forest College When the Faqirzada family set …
The Guardian | Come together: how music is rebuilding bridges in divided Balkans
This story was first published in The Guardian on March 16, 2018. by Gillian Dohrn SIT Fall 2017 Colorado College A rock school unites youngsters from both …
Balkan Insight | Taking Bosnia’s Constitution to Court – an Unfinished Fight
Bosnia’s elites have ignored a stream of European court rulings ordering the country to make its constitution less discriminatory – but those struggling for a citizen- based state have not given up.
Gallery
Man carting vegetables on a weekday through Prizren, Kosovo. Photo: Meredith Howe / SIT Balkans
Man carting vegetables on a weekday through Prizren, Kosovo. Photo: Meredith Howe / SIT Balkans
Lone prayer beads among the thousands of gravestones of boys and men in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the memorial for the Srebrenica Genocide which occurred in July 1995. Photo: Meredith Howe / SIT Balkans
Lone prayer beads among the thousands of gravestones of boys and men in Potocari, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the memorial for the Srebrenica Genocide which occurred in July 1995. Photo: Meredith Howe / SIT Balkans
“And who do you love?” - Spotted outside KC Grad in Belgrade, Serbia. Photo: Meredith Howe / SIT Balkans
“And who do you love?” - Spotted outside KC Grad in Belgrade, Serbia. Photo: Meredith Howe / SIT Balkans
During the Siege of Sarajevo, mortar explosions left craters in the concrete, such as this one next to the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart. Those painted red signify that it caused a loss of life. These red patterns are referred to as the “Red Roses of Sarajevo” for both their pattern and as a morbid acknowledgment of the violence of the siege. Photo: Emma Woods / SIT Balkans
During the Siege of Sarajevo, mortar explosions left craters in the concrete, such as this one next to the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart. Those painted red signify that it caused a loss of life. These red patterns are referred to as the “Red Roses of Sarajevo” for both their pattern and as a morbid acknowledgment of the violence of the siege. Photo: Emma Woods / SIT Balkans