20 years ago a group of Serb paramilitaries destroyed a Roma village in Eastern Bosnia, killing all the residents. A child survived and, today, he is asking for his people justice before the Belgrade's War Crimes Prosecutor
In his most recent televised address to the people, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said corruption in Chechnya was minimal. In reality, it is enough to spend a few days in the region to realise that corruption, like a spider web, envelops almost every sphere of life in Chechnya starting in primary school
3 February 2012
International Alert, an NGO based in London working on conflict resolution, did a study on how people on opposite sides of the conflicts in the South Caucasus perceived each other. Our correspondent focused on how Armenians were depicted in online discourse in Baku. An insiders' look into the dark side of the Azerbaijani blogosphere
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The economic crisis shuts down Greek newspapers
Gilda Lyghounis | 31 January 2012 - Marjola Rukaj | 27 January 2012
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Chechnya, school of corruption
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EU fiasco: the case of Kosovo’s Central Bank
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela | 24 January 2012
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CROAZIA
Croatia in recession looks to the Middle...
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TRANSNISTRIA
Transnistria, wind of change with the ne...
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ALBANIA
Selective abortion in Albania
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BULGARIA
Bulgarian mass media's uncomfortable rel...
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OUTDOOR
Bijela, journey to the centre of the earth
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KOSOVO
Kosovo: the unnecessary highway that cou...
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TURKEY
The Via Egnatia: bridges and walls betwe...
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AZERBAIJAN
Azerbaijan, where oil is not transparent
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BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA
Bijela,the hidden canyon
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CHECHNYA
Myths and legends of contemporary Chechnya
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KOSOVO
Kosovo: lonely Mitrovica
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AZERBAIJAN
Azerbaijan: oil, freedom, and the intern...
The decentralised cooperation Programme SeeNet II, lead by the Tuscany region and co-financed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, involves 6 Regions, the Autonomous Province of Trento, Italian Civil Society and 47 local authorities in Sout-east Europe. Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso is the partner for analysis and information dissemination
Let's take a closer look into the issue of domestic violence in Montenegro: there are good laws but they are not yet implemented efficiently. They lack coherent coordination and Montenegrin society seems not yet to re...
[2011] Still a niche production, but receiving more and more attention by the day. An OBC dossier on organic farming in the Western Balkans: policies, adjustments to European standards, statistics and country by country analyses
Albania: Oil
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Talk about Albania, Italy and energy issues is often heard. It has deep roots in the past. A multimedia production based on fascinating archive documents. The texts are from 'Albania. Guida d'Italia della Consociazione Turistica Italiana", Milan 1940. The photos, that were never published, c...
Romanija, from father to son
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Father and son in a walk on Romanija mountain, near Sarajevo, traditional training area of the Bosnian climbers. A videoreportage
Adventure in the Rakitnica canyon
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A canyon in central Bosnia and the desire for a unique experience in uncontaminated nature. Massimo Moratti, with his video camera, takes on a discovery of the Rakitnica valley. Special thanks to www.scorpio.ba
OBC is a project of the Peace Bell Foundation promoted by the Trentino Forum for Peace and Human Rights and supported by the Autonomous Province of Trento and by the Municipality of Rovereto
All OBC's occasional papers in a new section of the website
From the web
- Serb Said to Be Behind Kosovo Clashes Is Arrested - NYT > Kosovo
- Belarusian Activist Nominated for Nobel, Czech Corruption Tours - Transitions Online
- Bulgaria Vows to Comply with EC Hens Directive by April - Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)
- European debt crisis pitches Germany against Greece - World news : Balkans roundup | guardian.co.uk
- Albania Nationalist Leader Resigns from Top Justice Job - Latest Headlines from Albania
- Spanish police arrest man suspected over assassination of Serbian PM - World news : Balkans roundup | guardian.co.uk
- Secret Waste Imports Alarm Albania’s Greens - Latest Headlines from Albania
- PES Leader Moves to Push ENP to Abandon Acta - Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency)
Dossier Bazaar
They were multilingual places where secret languages were spoken. What has remained in the Balkan Bazaars of these codes, invented in order to understand each other and yet not be understood by outsiders? Our analysis
Reportage
Mussa Khan is muhajir, a refugee seeking a safe place to live. His story is the one of the many young Afghans who try to reach Europe to ask for asylum. In 14 episodes the blog "Mussa Khan" retraces his steps through the 5,000 km that separate Iran from Italy.
Dossier
[2011] Often hidden behind the house walls, domestic violence, whose victims are mainly women, remains unspoken about in many cases. In this dossier, realised in partnership with Oneworld Platform for SEE , Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso presents data, extracts of interviews with experts, information on legal reforms and their implementation, etc.
Book
A collection of papers presented at the conference "Bad memories. Sites, symbols and narrations of wars in the Balkans", organised by Osservatorio Balcani in Rovereto, Trento, on 9 November 2007. The conference was part of a project devoted to Second World War memorial sites in former Yugoslavia, co-sponsored by the European Union and the Autonomous Province of Trento.
