It has been about thirty years since the wars in the area of ex-Yugoslavia broke out. Before Yugoslavia collapsed, the country was marked by music and musicians against the war, nationalist politics, and radicalization of ethnic communities. There was a pro-peace and civility movement of musicians and other cultural workers…

Recently I was invited to test a new blockchain/crypto game called Crypto Football. I am playing and following the development of blockchain games such as Merge Cats and War of Ants. As a gamer and crypto entrepreneur, I think that blockchain gaming and AR gaming are the future of the…

In late April 1992, my father’s friend Ismet came to Teslic as the war in Bosnia started at the former republic border between Bosnia and Serbia. Eastern Bosnia was among the first main targets for Serb nationalists operating in Bosnia and in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, where the aggression…

In her report “The EU’s Defense Ambitions: Understanding the Emergence of a European Defense Technological and Industrial Complex” for think-tank Carnegie Europe, Raluca Csernatoni writes about the rise of the European military-industrial complex based on political and economic actors and networks, and what that means for European democracy and political…

Global Terrorism Index for 2022 — Summary Institute for Economics and Peace has recently published its Global Terrorism Index report. Here are some important insights and facts: In 2021, deaths from terrorism fell by 1.2 percent to 7,142 deaths compared to 2015, while the number of countries experiencing at least…

During military parades in Serbia, soldiers usually carry war flags from the First and Second World Wars and the Kosovo War. The flags from the Kosovo war are “astonishing” because the practice with military parades is to display “flags of victory”, not flags of defeats. Because the armed forces of…

Izvor: Istraga.ba Tokom vojnih parada u Srbiji, vojnici obično nose ratne zastave iz prvog i drugog svjetskog rata, i iz kosovskog rata. Upravo su zastave s rata na Kosovu zapanjujuće jer ako se vojne parade već održavaju onda je praksa da se prikazuje “zastave pobjede” a ne poraza. Jer vojska…

Before I moved from Bosnia to Sweden in 2003, I played the PC game “Delta Force — Black Hawk Down” based on the movie with the same name and the UN operations in Somalia as in 1993 during the civil wartime. Once, as I was playing the game, I got…