
What does Danube Swabian identity mean today? Women from across the Danube region gathered in Budapest to discuss language, memory and the future. The first Danube Swabian Women’s Conference demonstrated just how strongly women continue to shape culture, tradition and community – and why their stories have long been overlooked. It was precisely these questions
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As the evening sun set over Sarajevo and bathed the walls of the Yellow Fortress in golden light, they met for the first time: young people from Bulgaria, Germany, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina. For one week, they would learn, understand, remember and grow together. And Sarajevo, this city of a thousand
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A pilot programme to strengthen the life skills of disadvantaged young people in Bosnia-Herzegovina Between August 2022 and April 2023, Pharos e.V. Stuttgart and its partner organisation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Faros association, worked with around 40 young people from socially disadvantaged families – many of whom belong to the Roma minority. The project was carried
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The Dayton Peace Agreement was signed on 14 December 1995. This ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The three years of conflict between 1992 and 1995 were particularly violent and traumatising for the civilian population, who suffered from massive war crimes, “ethnic cleansing”, expulsions and sexualised war violence. The whole country should have been
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