2021-05-08/09 European Bildung Conference Last weekend, I participated in the annual European Bildung Conference organised by European Bildung Network and Nordic Bildung members. The conference was organised digitally and focused on bildung aspects as education, social development and philosophy in… Read More »Europe blog
What is Europe? After all, Europe is part of our social world in the universal and global sense. The meaning of Europe has been changing through history and will continue to change. The “ideas of Europe” are after all human-made,… Read More »Europe
Recently I was watching a video called “A Black Cauldron” via YouTube. As usual, my ambition with this blog is to write about what happened in the former Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union by analysing different sources, thereby not glorifying… Read More »Sarajevo in spring and summer 1992
Events as demonstrations, violence and controversies during the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle during November-December 1999 came to be known as “the Battle for Seattle”. Relevant data as official documents, photos, notes and other stuff can be read and… Read More »“Battle for Seattle” files
Duško Kondor was a human rights activist during and after the war in Bosnia. He was born and lived in the city of Bijeljina, were among the worst crimes during the war occurred in 1992. During the war, Duško had… Read More »Good humans in the time of evil – Duško Kondor
Why do many people in Balkans believe that Corona does not exist and that 5G is a conspiracy connected to Bill Gates? Recently, I read an article by weekly columnist Hynek Pallas who often writes about Central Europe in Swedish speaking… Read More »Neo-liberalism, Soros and CIA – conspiracy theories in areas of ex-Yugoslavia and the Soviet union
During the war in Bosnia, the Danish state participated with its military units initially in the UN-led UNPROFOR and later within the NATO-led IFOR and SFOR peacekeeping missions. One more famous aspect of the Danish military participation in Bosnia was… Read More »Danish armour recognition military card during the war in Bosnia
During 2020 there have been many debates about monuments concerning demonstrations and riots connected to the Black Lives Matter movement. Monuments as of Edward Colston in Bristol, UK and of General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, USA have been vandalised… Read More »Monument politics in ex-Yugoslavia
In 1991, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ceased to exist as a sovereign state and UN-member. Before its collapse, socialist Yugoslavia had economic problems, including inflation. The inflation problems were temporarily handled by its last prime-minister Ante Markovic. According… Read More »500 Billion Dinar Question
This photo was taken by photo-journalist Fernando Costa Netto when he worked in Sarajevo during the war. Before and even during the war, many teenagers, youngsters and kids in Sarajevo grew up with music made in the USA such as… Read More »Public Enemy in Sarajevo