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Bošnjački institut – fondacija Adil - beg Zulfikarpašića je jedinstvena kulturna i naučna institucija u Bosni i Hercegovini koja objedinjuje muzej, biblioteku i arhiv, te galeriju i kulturni centar koji su od samog otvaranja izazvali veliku pažnju u javnosti.
Kada je u pitanju upoznavanje sa bosanskom tradicijom kroz artefakte tradicionalnog bosanskog namještaja i odjeće, te predmeta, kao i kulturna događanja, zbirke umjetničkih djela bosanskohercegovačkih autora, pa i proučavanje moderne i osmanske arhitekture Bošnjački institut je nezaobilazno mjesto u gradu Sarajevu.
Bosnia and Herzegovina Tourism | Best Places To Visit In Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina Tourism | Best Places To Visit In Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina.Despite all those rugged mountains, the snow-caked heights of the Dinaric Alps, the beautiful Una River and towns like Mostar and Stolac where Ottoman and Byzantine, Roman and Balkan, Slavic and oodles of other styles all coalesce between the ancient streets, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains a somewhat off-the-beaten-track corner of Europe. Check out this list of the country’s best places to visit, which flits from the wild hinterland to the buzzing, burgeoning capital along the way.
1. Capital Sarajevo
Sarajevo is simply special and, by far, one of the most unique capital cities in Europe. I haven’t met too many people who have visited and didn’t fall in love a little for a number of reasons: the sinfully delicious food, its surrounding mountain scenery, the kindness of the locals, or its unbreakable spirit.
2. Lukomir Mountain Village
Lukomir is a magical mountain village where very traditional Bosnian lifestyle has been fully maintained. It is not as isolated as it used to be due to its increased popularity and the growing number of tour operators offering it as day trip from Sarajevo. For sure, an experience you can’t find in too many other places in Europe anymore.
3. Sutjeska National Park
Wild horses, funky Yugoslav monuments, a primeval forest, great hiking, and the highest peak in Bosnia & Herzegovina…What is not amazing about Sutjeska National Park?
4. Travnik
Bisected by the babbling Lasva River as it flows through the central mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the pretty mid-sized town of Travnik does well to balance its interesting past as the capital and stronghold of the erstwhile viziers of this old Ottoman sub-region and modern day adventure sports and outdoorsy draws. The first aspect manifests in a curious array of traditional eastern-style edifices and monuments, two Ottoman clock towers (unique throughout the country) and a handsome 15th-century old town heart.
5. Mostar
One of the undisputed jewels of the entire Balkan Peninsula, Mostar oozes Bosnian history from each of its Byzantine cracks, Slavic crevices and Ottoman facades. The piece de resistance has to be the arched Old Bridge that spans the Neretva at the town’s heart, now meticulously reconstructed following destruction in the Croat–Bosniak conflict and a bearer of that coveted UNESCO tag. And all around this masterpiece cast in stone, Mostar layers Dalmatian builds and Franciscan churches, oriental designs and arabesque mosques into one glorious aesthetic
Bosnie-Herzégovine: Nedzarici (stupska petlja), accrochages Archives 1992
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Dobrinja,Nedzarici (stupska petlja),Vogošća, sarajevo ilidja,Bosnie-herzégovine Archives Philippe Buffon Ce sont Archives Bosnie-Herzégovine 1992 ce sont donc des cassettes Béta mises bout à bout et numérisées que j'avais tourné en Bosnie en 1992 que je met en ligne.
Pourquoi mettre des rushs en ligne sans aucune explication, ni commentaire...
Je pense que vraiment cela pourrait faire du bien aux soldats ou miliciens qui prirent part aux combats et aux jeunes qui n'ont rien vu , mais entendu de voir comment l'autre bord a pu souffrir ..Et de finalement voir l'absurdité de cette guerre civile qui dura plus de trois ans ...
Ces images sont disponible à l'INA l'institut Nationales de l'audiovisuel
Vistez le Blog de Philippe Buffon sur la Bosnie-Herzégovine et discutez avec lui..
Watch Philippe Buffon's blog on Bosnia discuss with him ..
Pogledajte blog Philippe Buffona o Bosni i Hercegovini i razgovarajte s njim ..
Погледајте блог Пхилиппе Буффон-а о Босни и Херцеговини и разговарајте с њим ..
Why put rushes online without any explanation or comment ...
I think that really could be good for the soldiers or militiciens who took part in this war..to see how the other side could have suffered .. And finally to see the absurdity of this civil war that lasted more than three years ...
Bosnia: A Letter
Using hip-hop to counter nationalism among young people. By IWPR.
Adnan Hamidovic is a hip-hop artist from the Bosnian town of Bijeljina, who uses his songs to tackle thorny issues of reconciliation.
In one set of lyrics, he says, I don't want us to compare victims and count the dead, the burned mosques and destroyed churches.
This film takes the form of a dialogue between Hamidovic, a Bosniak, and his friend Milan Colic, a peace activist from Serbia. Hamidovic, who goes by the nickname Frenkie, begins by recounting the arrival of Serb paramilitaries in Bijeljina and its effects on his family.
Both he and Colic are concerned at the nationalism that exists among young people in the region, two decades after the war.
In one song, Hamidovic addresses Serbs, saying he does not share the view that they have genocide in their veins.
I think this song is encouraging for people, Colic says. It seems like they're thinking, 'If Frenkie had the courage to say it out loud, let's have the courage to say it out loud ourselves.'
Hamidovic believes that if young people were given a better understanding of the crimes committed in the name of their own communities, rather than only those perpetrated against them, within just a few years, we'd already see a change in them, as well as in generations to come; we'd no longer hear those nationalist slogans in football stadiums; and it would no longer be considered cool -- or dangerous and attractive -- and people would start feeling ashamed of the things they now say and the way they think.
This film was produced as part of the Ordinary Heroes project, funded by the Norwegian Embassy in Sarajevo. IWPR is implementing the project in partnership with the Post-Conflict Research Centre in Sarajevo.
Dr Elmedin Muratbegović, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Video statement by Dr Elmedin Muratbegović, Associate Professor, Faculty of Criminal Justice, Criminology and Security Studies, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (in Bosnian).
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Serb leaders snub Sarajevo WWI ceremony
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Serbian leaders commemorated the centenary of the outbreak of World War I in Visegrad's Andricgrad district, Saturday, and, simultaneously, marked the Andricgrad project's official opening. The Andricgrad 'town-within-a-town' was built over the past three years on the initiative of filmmaker Emir Kusturica, who attended the event alongside Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik.
Its opening was held to mark the centenary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip, whom many Serbs view as a hero. Serb leaders chose to attend the Visegrad event instead of commemorations in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo where Franz Ferdinand was killed 100 years ago.
Andricgrad is named after Serbian Nobel Prize winning author Ivo Andric, and boasts an institute dedicated to research into World War I.
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Bosnia: A Fruit Producer
This film tells the story of how a small cross-community venture grew into what it managers say is Bosnia's biggest farming cooperative.
The Vocar Zvornik was conceived in 2002, at a time when Bosniak refugees were still coming back to the Zvornik area of northeast Bosnia. It was started by five Serbs and five Bosniaks.
As one of the first Serb farmers to join, Dragoljub Vukotic, recalled, The first time they called me and asked whether I wanted to join the cooperative, I had to talk to people to check whether I could, because I was afraid someone would set my house on fire.
The venture found acceptance across both communities, however, because the farmers involved were seen as upstanding, respected figures.
The cooperative was a light at the end of the tunnel. It helped people survive, Memsur Galjic, a Bosnika who is now deputy director of Vocar Zvornik, said. We were a country that had just come out of a war and there were no jobs around.... It meant that we returnees now had an opportunity to earn our first income since the 1990s.
Although most of those who initially signed up were returning Bosniaks in need of an income, they were soon joined by Serbs. The cooperative has now expanded beyond Zvornik into most of northeastern Bosnia, with 1,000 members and a management team consisting of three Bosniaks and three Serbs.
The cooperative started by focusing on fast-maturing crops like gherkins which would earn quick money for needy households, but these days it covers a wide range including slower-growing fruit trees.
It still offers its members a high level of support, ensuring they have the seed and other inputs they need for the season, and then buying and marketing their crops for them.
This film was produced as part of the Ordinary Heroes project, funded by the Norwegian Embassy in Sarajevo. IWPR is implementing the project in partnership with the Post-Conflict Research Centre in Sarajevo.
Bosnia: Ina's Path
How a Dutch therapist ended up helping Bosniak and Serb communities overcome traumas of war.
Augustina Rahmanovic Koning is a therapist with the Viva Zene (Viva Women) Association, an NGO in the Bosnian town of Tuzla set up to work with women and children -- and later men too -- traumatised by the effects of the war.
Originally from The Netherlands, Augustina moved to Bosnia in 1988 to get married. She first had met her future husband, Salkan Rahmanovic, five years earlier while on a beach holiday in what was then Yugoslavia.
With her background in child therapy, joining Viva Zene was a natural fit for Augustina's skills.
Trauma is a huge problem here, and working with trauma is like working with fire, she says. We work with a chain of traumas, because in Bosnia there was not just one traumatic event, but a chain of events which started before the war, continued during and after the war, and endures even today.
Augustina has been closely involved in working with women's groups from Kravica, an ethnic Serb village, and the Bosniak (Muslim) village of Konjevic Polje.
Despite mutual suspicions in each community, and the still raw memories of war, the two groups agreed to hold joint meetings to share ideas as well as common problems.
Both sides wanted to have a mixed group, so that we could get to know each other a bit better... to really hear what the other side has to say, because each side has its own pain and traumas from the war, Augustina says.
Jasna Zecevic, director of Viva Zene, says her group's overall aim is to mitigate the effects of trauma and war, not only among victims of war and torture, but also among the victims of peacetime violence -- that is, domestic violence -- and by doing this work, to prevent future conflicts. We believe it's very important to offer continuing support and to work on the trauma of war, so that new generations don't suffer from the transfer of trauma across the generations.
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This film was produced as part of the Ordinary Heroes project, funded by the Norwegian Embassy in Sarajevo. IWPR is implementing the project in partnership with the Post-Conflict Research Centre in Sarajevo.
Bosnia: Bridge Over the River Zepa
Fish farm shows how business start-ups can draw in different ethnic groups.
Film by IWPR.
Muhamed Tabakovic quotes the famous author Ivo Andric's description of a bridge over the river Zepa as serving life and bridging opposites. Tabakovic's own creation on the river has achieved something rather similar.
As a teenager, he fled from Zepa in the face of a Bosnian Serb offensive in 1995.
Later, he had a dream about starting a fish farm, which made such an impression that he did just that.
To acquire the knowledge he needed, he travelled to Serbia to see a professor who had set up a fish farming project in Zepa back in 1988.
Tabakovic went back home and set about clearing the river banks and installing pens for fish.
These days, he has a thriving fish raising and retail business, with offices in the nearby town of Rogatica, part of Republika Srpska, one of Bosnia's two administrative entities. He plans to expand with an on-site packing plant.
His staff are recruited from across ethnic divides.
I can say that the cooperation between Muslims and Serbs is really good. I haven't had any bad experiences, he says.
This film was produced as part of the Ordinary Heroes project, funded by the Norwegian Embassy in Sarajevo. IWPR is implementing the project in partnership with the Post-Conflict Research Centre in Sarajevo.
Bosnia: The Match
Serbs and Bosniaks play together on Srebrenica's football team.
Just short of ten years after the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, the local football was resurrected with a multi-ethnic team that defies the town's horrific past.
After the team was re-established, managers decided to start a training school for young players.
Former professional footballers Nermin Pasalic, a Bosniak, and his childhood friend Drago Radovic, who is Serb, ran the club in the early years after it started up again.
None of us cared about names, Radovic says. We were interested in the quality of the players and whether they were up to our standards on the football pitch.
Our biggest success in those three-and-a-half or four years was that there wasn't a single incident between Serbs and Bosniaks, Serbs and Serbs, or
Bosniaks and Bosniaks.
Pasalic's father was killed in the 1995 massacre, and he was able to identify his remains only in 2006.
The pain is always with me. Every child mourns his parents, but life has to go on, he says. Drago Radovic and the others are not to blame for what happened to my family. The people who have been convicted of war crimes are to blame for what happened.
Team coach Milan Pavlovic says, The aim of this club is to keep sport above all national and religious interests.
Pavlovic says the young people now on the training programme lost their childhood, lost their fathers, uncles and grandfathers.
Despite this, he says that we don't have problems with ethnic animosities.
This film was produced as part of the Ordinary Heroes project, funded by the Norwegian Embassy in Sarajevo. IWPR is implementing the project in partnership with the Post-Conflict Research Centre in Sarajevo.
Excavation at Kopilo, Zenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Kopilo 2019
Project: Visualizing the Unknown Balkans
Host institution: Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA), Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
Partner institution: Museum of the City of Zenica
Project leaders: Barbara Horejs, Mario Gavranović
Funding: Innovation Fund “Research, Science and Society”of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Film by: Mario Gavranović, Thomas Urban and Irene Petschko
Copyright: OREA/ÖAW
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Bosnia: The Warrior
Former combatant swaps rifle for camera to track down birds, not men.
Film by IWPR.
Cvjetko Udovicic and his friend Irnes Mujic are up early in the morning moving silently through the Bosnian countryside, almost invisible in their camouflage gear.
Soldiers on opposing sides during the Bosnian war of the 1990s, the two men are fanatical birdwatchers and photographers.
Mujic served in the Bosnian government army, and so initially did Udovicic although he is of Serb ethnicity.
After two years in the government army, Udovicic crossed the lines and enlisted in the Bosnian Serb army in 1994..
As someone who was in both armies, I may be in a position to talk about what really happened during those years, he says. It seems to me that there is little truth in what politicians on both sides say when they talk about wartime events.
It was life on the front line that sparked Udovicic's love of birds.
Why do I actually photograph birds? I remember that during those crazy war years, there were many birds on the front lines, singing near the trenches, he says. They were free to fly across the lines. There were no borders for them then, just as there are no borders for them today.
Udovicic sees himself as a true pacifist, saying, I don't like war. However, a man simply gets used to it over time, maybe unconsciously, and becomes a part of that killing machine. I never personally shot at or killed people and I am glad that I came out of the war without a stain on my conscience.
This film was produced as part of the Ordinary Heroes project, funded by the Norwegian Embassy in Sarajevo. IWPR is implementing the project in partnership with the Post-Conflict Research Centre in Sarajevo.
ARBIH || Dan Nezavisnosti 01/03/92 (Independence day)
Citizens of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina voted for the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the referendum that was held between 29 February and 1 March 1992. The referendum question was: Are you in favor of a sovereign and independent Bosnia-Herzegovina, a state of equal citizens and nations of Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats and others who live in it?
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Bosnian village of some 300 sees 13 pairs of twins born since 1962
(3 Aug 2012) STORYLINE
The setting suggests a typical small village in Bosnia but look closer and you may think you're seeing double.
It's not an optical illusion.
Uvac, home to some 300 people, is also home to 13 pairs of twins born since 1962.
So it happened that our village became known for its twins which is better than (being known) for some other ugly reason, especially with everything else that has happened here recently, said Zoran Djurovic, father of twin girls Nevena and Jovana, referring to Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
His 3 year-old daughters are the youngest twins in Uvac but he hopes more will be born.
Djurovic's neighbour Svetlana Mandic also has twin daughters.
It takes her some time to list the family names of other twins living in the houses next to theirs and going to school with her girls.
There are Djurovics, Bakics, Lucics, Mikovics, Prijovics...
In 1962, Nenad and Predrag Tripkovic were the first twins born in the village.
The next couple of twins came 20 years later and the steady twin birth rate has been making local headlines recently.
After that, the real expansion begun, said Nenad Tripkovic.
Every year or every second year twins are born. One in every three or four pregnancies here turns out to be with twins. Nobody knows why that is, is it water, air or genetics of the people here, who can tell?
None of the couples who gave birth to the twins have undergone fertility treatments or are related to each other, they told AP.
Genetic scientists in Bosnia are similarly unsure about the reasons behind the high rate of twin births in some populations.
At this moment, there is no genetic explanation, Damir Marjanovic from Bosnia's Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology said.
But given the high rate of twin births in Uvac, the village's small population and its remote location, Marjanovic believes it is a very interesting topic, and it should be examined more in the future, using the scientific tools.
Among more traditional factors associated with twin births are fertility treatments, maternal age and family history.
Twins can be monozygotic or identical, when a single zygote (egg) splits producing multiple foetuses, and dizygotic or non-identical, when multiple foetuses are the result of two zygotes.
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Welcome to Bosnia and Herzegovina: On Human Rights in BiH
Journalist Kristina Ljevak narrates a film consisting of interviews with Bosnian-Herzegovinian human rights and political experts, including Jadranka Milicevic of the CURE Foundation, Sasa Gavric of Sarajevo Open Centre, Mostar author Veselin Gatalo, Dr. Lejla Turcilo, and Mehmed Halilovic of Internews.
For more information in English about the BiH political system and its consequences on human rights, read The Political System of Bosnia and Herzegovina, published in 2013 and found at the following link:
This clip was created as a part of the project Interpretation and Practice of Human Rights - WITHOUT DIALOGUE supported by Internews Sarajevo. A production of Media plan institut. Film originally published here:
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Meet Hikmet Karcic - HGS Fellow From Sarajevo, Bosnia
Each fall semester, beginning this fall (2017), Keene State will be welcoming an international scholar to campus as part of the Global Fellowship program, a joint initiative between the College and the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (AIPR).
Hikmet Karcic, a PhD candidate at the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and a researcher at the Institute for Islamic Tradition of Bosniaks, will be the program’s first Global Fellow. His research focuses on the mass atrocities that have occurred in the Balkans over several years, especially, those committed during the Bosnian War (1992–1995).
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IWPR's Bosnian Films Offer Alternative Vision
Schoolchildren too young to remember war admit they are still weighed down with the prejudices of their elders.
By Velma Šarić, 16 May 12
High school pupils attending last week's screening of IWPR's films in the central Bosnian town of Visoko said the films taught them that religious and ethnic identity should not be an obstacle to living together.
The short TV documentaries about the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, produced by IWPR together with the Sarajevo-based Mebius Film company, form a series called 20 Years Later, and feature people who went against the flow and overcame ethnic and political barriers to display the best of human traits rather than the worst.
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