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How and why does wartime violence against civilians occur in the communities that have lived together in peace for a long time? Why does this happen in some local-level...
Memory Cultures in Dialogue
Memory Cultures in Dialogue is a podcast and blog of the Humanitarian Law Center from Belgrade, Serbia.
The podcast and blog oppose the hegemonic narratives about the breakup of Yugoslavia and the wars that ensued. The facts about the armed conflicts that took place in the territory of former Yugoslavia in the 1990s are subject to constant distortion in the frameworks of dominant and state-sanctioned memory politics. The project strives for promoting a public dialogue about politics and cultures of memory and coming to terms with the past. The podcast and blog inform, point out to the constructed nature of dominant narrative and deconstruct these narratives through diskussions with experts and actors of memory activism from below.
The wars that followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s are often observed in isolation from the global context of armed conflicts. The recent
Official commemorations of the events of the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia started in Serbia only after the Serbian Progressive Party had come to
Memory Cultures in Dialogue is a podcast and blog of the Humanitarian Law Center. The project is supported by NIWANO Peace Foundation from Japan.
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