Bosnian Institute news

Site: http://www.bosnia.org.uk/
Case study: http://www.headshift.com/archives/002889.cfm

Introduction

Recently, we took over the hosting and management of their web site and immediately launched several new features, such as a simple shared knowledgebase of key links and documents about the country and a fully-featured library information system that they use to manage their unique collection of over 2,300 books - with online search access for journalists and researchers - as well as to organise their own reviews of key works on Bosnia. We continue to leverage their small team's specialist knowledge of the area and add value to existing data on the site by providing, for example, a dynamic flash-based map navigator that links through to local Bosnian web sites about towns and cities, and an RSS news feed for their news service.

Coverage

Word in the blogosphere

A Dark Corner of Europe, Part II
“The Balkans produce more history than they can consume.” – Winston Churchill “Sarajevans will not be counting the dead. They will be counting the living.” – Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian Serb leader, war criminal, fugitive Sarajevo can be startling for first-time visitors. Shattered buildings, walls riddled with bullet holes, and mass graveyards are shocking things to see in a European capital in the 21st Century. The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina was more violent than the others in the former Yugosl

OPEN LETTER BY 54 ACADEMICS & INTELLECTUALS
A public call for the full and uncensored minutes of the meetings of the Supreme Defence Council of Serbia to be made public, so that the role of the Serbian state in the genocide in Bosnia and Hercegovina can be assessed objectively. Caption: Photo of a child corpse on display in the visitors center in Srebrenica. By: Fifty-four international academics, human-rights activists and intellectuals Open letter to the presidents of the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tr

links for 2008-03-12
Bosnian Institute News: Kosovo is Kosovo (tags: language politics funny) 'Why Can't We?' (tags: politics usa) Sam Lawrence: Using Tag Clouds As Tea Leaves (tags: tags tagging) From ETech to Where 2.0: Disaster Tech and Activist Mapping (tags: maps...

Freedom for Kosova
For heartfelt and astute observations I direct you to Marko Attila Hoare’s blog, Greater Surbiton. Hoare, the author of Genocide and Resistance in Hitler’s Bosnia: The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943 is also a contributor to the Bosnian Report of the Bosnian Institute and Democratiya. Here is an excerpt from his blogpost, “Kosova is free!“: Kosova was crushed and oppressed by the Ottoman Empire; murderously invaded by the Serbian Army; repressed and colonised under the Yugoslav kingdom;