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Balkan Insight | Judging Movies Reconnects Balkan’s Divided Postwar Young

Published Articles / 7 minutes of reading

This article was published in Balkan Insight on January 28, 2019. by Sonja Borgmann SIT Fall 2018 Carleton College Joining a pan-Balkan arthouse film jury proved a transformative experience for youngsters brought up to think of their peers in other former Yugoslav countries as strangers and enemies. Before making their first trip to Kosovo for …

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Disabled Community Takes a Stand in Kosovo

Balkan Insight | Disabled Community Takes a Stand in Kosovo

Published Articles / 6 minutes of reading

This story was first published in Balkan Insight on January 9, 2018. by Jennifer Sheeren SIT Fall 2017 Vanderbilt University In impoverished Kosovo, the disabled community has been pushed to the back of the line – but a new generation of activists and NGOs is determined to change things. A sixth-grade classroom at Naim Frasheri …

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Balkan Insight | Kosovo’s Female MPs Unite to Challenge Injustice

Published Articles / 7 minutes of reading

This story was first published in Balkan Insight. by Meredith Howe SIT Fall 2016 University of New Hampshire Durham When Shqipe Pantina, 42, a former civil society activist, decided to run for the Kosovo parliament as a member of the Vetevendosje (Self-Determination) opposition party, her family thought it was a joke. She joined because, as an …

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Learning Pain

Feature / 7 minutes of reading

by Emma Woods SIT Fall 2016 College of Wooster BELGRADE/PRISTINA, Serbia has been trying to join the European Union, but many of its citizens still have a passionate anti-western sentiment. These feelings are largely connected to a 1999 NATO bombing campaign over the war in Kosovo. The ruins of some of the bombed buildings in …

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Balkan Transitional Justice | Balkan Youth Office Aims to Breach Wartime Divides

Published Articles / 6 minutes of reading

This story was first published in Balkan Transitional Justice on July 6, 2016. by Carolyne Paletta SIT Spring 2016 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Djordje Bojovic was 19 years old and fearful the first time he visited Kosovo. Although there are four buses running between Belgrade and Pristina each day, the young Serb did not …

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Vice | Over Olympics and Kosovo, Serbia’s hands are bound

Published Articles / 8 minutes of reading

This story was first published in Vice.com by Annie Cheney SIT Fall 2015 Denison University BELGRADE – Mazlam Dzemailoski is on a tight schedule. “You came at exactly the wrong time,” he said with a gracious smile. “We are collecting our Men’s National Team to go to Iceland tomorrow. There are players injured, there are …

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Youth Initiative for Human Rights gives a microphone for youth voices

Researching Balkans / 3 minutes of reading

by Rachel Brustein SIT Spring 2015 Goucher College BELGRADE – Sixteen years after the war between Serbia and Kosovo, and seven years since Pristina unilaterally declared independence, there are not many interactions between the former foes. An NGO network with offices throughout the Balkans is working to change this with young people. The Youth Initiative …

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