Thinking global, living local: Voices in a globalized world

  • Bosnia: A Landscape of Lost Dreams?

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    The problem of labor in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) is less a problem of intergenerational competition than a problem of general unemployment and lack of opportunities for all. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, as in many countries around the world, villages are “aging.” This means that young people are leaving rural areas, which provide few […]

  • (Re)actions for Democracy from the Balkans

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    Democracy apart, there is no other idea so often extinguished, despised, rejected as irredeemably utopian and reborn again and yet again as the deep human need for justice. Even so, less noble human characteristics such as greed, envy, arrogance, intolerance and aggressiveness, combined with our tendency to avoid responsibility seem […]

  • Peace is an act, not a state of being

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    The question of peace has haunted me ever since I was a teenager. This is hardly surprising because I, like many of my fellow citizens, spent my adolescence during the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, witnessing and experiencing many of the horrors which the rest of the world saw second-hand through the […]