Everyone has a story to tell, says Milan Petrovic, a highschool teacher in Nis, Serbia and a co-founder of Humans of the Balkans, an interactive and multilingual web platform for sharing the powerful...
In 2014, as news broke that Albanians had joined with the rebels opposing Syrian president Bashar al Assad, and later the force that became known as the Islamic State, Indrit Abdiaj began searching...
In Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), many towns and cities remain ethnically segregated and schools teach vastly different narratives about Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. Mainstream media in BiH is highly...
Afrodita Musliu watched the first military planes enter Syria from her spot on a Turkish beach in 2013. But it was not long before the effects of the war came to her hometown of Skopje, Macedonia....
by Srdjan Puhalo Facebook blocked my profile and fan page three times this month. I must be winning the media war, if they want to shut me up that much. Srdjan Puhalo is political...
It was a pleasure to host our first (mini) series of #ResonantBalkans Talks in Sarajevo and Skopje this March, discussing promising new approaches, strategies and tools developed by different groups...
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...
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...