Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik, the president of Republika Srpska, with Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, in February 2024.
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Tension in the western Balkans, which has been troubled by ethnic tensions since the wars of the 1990s, is becoming an increasing concern for the EU and Nato.
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Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s 2023 state of the union speech saw her press for expansion for the union’s own good.
Contested crossing: Kosovan Serbs protest at the ban on entry of vehicles with Serbian registration plates, September 2021.
Reuters/Laura Hasani
Unrest in the Balkans might be orchestrated by Russia, but the crisis is also an opportunity for the west.
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has caused concern by threatening to secede from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Recent threats by the Bosnian Serb leadership of dismantling the shared state institutions endanger the stability and security of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Alessandra Fuccillo
European leaders expressed solidarity with people trapped in Kabul with no reference to the people trapped in makeshift camps on its periphery.
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Named after a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina, NASA’s Martian landing spot is a distant reminder of less peaceful times on Earth.
Police take a man to a migrant centre amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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The pandemic has added to an already desperate situation.
The participants in the West Balkans conference pose for the group photo at the chancellery in Berlin on April 29, 2019.
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What can be the road ahead for Kosovo and Serbia under the EU patronage?
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Kofi Annan’s tenure began after the reintroduction of two important international security lexicons – peacebuilding and human security.
Ivan Duque, a peace process sceptic.
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Post-conflict processes are often slowed down or even halted by fear. Can Colombia buck the trend?
EPA/Neil Hall
The foreign secretary will host a summit in London this summer on helping Balkan states join the EU.
An American soldier on a training exercise with a soldier from the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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The revelation that a Bosnian company had broken the arms embargo on Iraq unified three armies which had been fighting each other a decade before.
Ex-Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic appears in court in The Hague.
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Former commander of the Bosnian Serb army Ratko Mladic has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Survivors of the atrocities have today welcomed the long-awaited news.
Former general Mladić during proceedings in January.
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Forensic science of the dead helps to convict the living responsible.
A FARC member waves a white peace flag to commemorate the completion of their disarmament.
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Ending violence is only a first step. Research from Colombian universities sheds light on the role of education in peace-building.
Graves at the memorial center Potocari, near Srebrenica.
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How long does it take to make peace? Decades after the end of the Bosnian war, just one in six residents felt that country had reached reconciliation.
Ronan Shenhav
A spate of low-level terrorist incidents has the authorities arguing, instead of tackling the problem.
Karadžić in court.
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Former Bosnian Serb leader guilty of one count of genocide and numerous war crimes after 18 months of deliberation.
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A four year trial and several years of deliberation later, and an international tribunal is to decide on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Ed S. Johovac
Louis Monroy Santander has been looking at how locals in the town of Sanski Most are moving on after a brutal conflict.