Social media posts from the Ukrainian battlefields have been invaluable in enabling prosecutors in Serbia and Montenegro to prove the illegal military action of their nationals in Ukraine. Marija...
It may be a long struggle against the odds, but some independent media and civic activists in the Balkans are determined to counter the tide of fake news and disinformation flooding the...
Not a single Bosnian has been registered as going to the Middle East to fight in the last year and a half, and the authorities’ anti-terrorism focus has been redirected from prosecutions to...
During the RVI Hackathon in Durres, Albania, we brought together teams of community leaders, subject-matter experts, and local activists to develop prototypes and solutions to post-truth challenges...
Between 15 and 17 November we organized an intensive two-day workshop for our pilot campaigns in Belgrade on developing campaigns with impact, video production, audience profiling and impact...
Balkan youth have been an easy target for extremists seeking to radicalise them and convince them to fight abroad, but now parents, activists and official Islamic organisations are striking...
Some jihadis from the Balkans who travelled to the Syrian conflict zone to support Islamic State told BIRN that they returned home because they became disenchanted with the brutality, poverty and...
After dozens of self-proclaimed imams were prosecuted for recruiting fighters for Middle East wars, state-backed religious organisations have joined the online fight for the hearts and minds of...
The intended target audiences for the communication campaigns designed as part of the workshop were victims of Islamophobia, hate speech and hate crimes against Muslims, Muslim community members...
Our Belgrade workshop participants worked on a project targeting university students who are being radicalized on campus, they were concerned about the often-experienced backlash against journalists...
During the workshop in Tirana, participants discussed strategies for monitoring extremist content, helping people exit extremist circles, establishing a network of Islamic radio stations...
Participants in the RVI workshop in Pristina designed solutions to balance and counter-act, in their own words, the messages broadcast by the “Islamophobic, orientalizing media”, out of concern...
Campaign ideas discussed in the Skopje workshop focused on countering Islamophobia and rethinking patriotism, both of which, according to participants, have been misused by the previous government to...
Excluded from the mainstream media, whose content is more heavily policed, the purveyors of extreme ideologies are spreading their messages of fear and hatred on social networks. Marija Ristic,...
While Balkan countries have curbed the flow of fighters to foreign wars, the online space is still a haven for Islamist extremists who remain out of reach there, recruiting and spreading messages of...