Training & Mentoring
We provide training and mentoring support that powers bold ideas.
#ResonantBalkans Talks in Sarajevo and Skopje
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...
RVI Hackathon in Durres
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...
Campaigns for Impact – Advanced Skills Workshop – Belgrade, November 2017
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...
Challenging Dangerous Messages Online – Sarajevo, June 2017
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...
Challenging Dangerous Messages Online – Belgrade, May 2017
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...
Challenging Dangerous Messages Online – Tirana, May 2017
During the workshop in Tirana, participants discussed strategies for monitoring extremist content, helping people exit extremist circles, establishing a network of Islamic radio stations...
Mapping Radicalization Online
A series of articles produced in partnership with BIRN.
Young bloggers from Banja Luka create alternative narratives as a “generational scream against the reality in which we are being raised”.
Young people are underrepresented in mainstream media in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The media scene is divided largely along ethno-national lines and can often serve to raise tensions or incite negative...
Parents of Albanian ISIS ‘Martyrs’ Abandoned to Grief
Their sons went to fight for ISIS in Syria or Iraq, and some even had children in the conflict zone - then they were killed, leaving their impoverished relatives in Kosovo, Albania and Macedonia to...
Balkan Terror Trials Reveal Links to Western Europe
Terrorism trials involving Balkan Islamists show that many of these individuals were either indoctrinated by – or had close links to – radicalised communities in Germany, Austria and...