Peacebuilding as an activity by local actors with agency remains marginal in the literature as a conceptual focus. The Peace Academy's initiative, "Study of Peacebuilding Practice in Divided Societies," aims to contribute to this focus, strengthening this empirical research in a way that bridges disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Since 2008, the Peace Academy has been compiling a physical and online library of academic research about peace practice in post-Yugoslav countries (primarily BiH) and reflections and analysis by peacebuilding practitioners themselves. A small bibliographical sample of our materials is below. Please contact the Peace Academy at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you're interested in finding out more or accessing the full-text materials in our library via the online Zotero website.
Academic research about peace practice in post-Yugoslav countries
Bilić, B. (2012). We Were Gasping for Air: (Post-)Yugoslav Anti-War Activism and Its Legacy (1. Auflage). Nomos.
Carabelli, G. (2013). Living Critically in the Present: Youth Activism in Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina. European Perspectives – Journal on European Perspectives of the Western Balkans, 5(1), 48–63. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Giulia_Carabelli/publication/301790228_Living_Critically_in_the_Present_Youth_Activism_in_Mostar_Bosnia_Herzegovina/links/5878d9a508ae9a860fe2a53c/Living-Critically-in-the-Present-Youth-Activism-in-Mostar-Bosnia-Herzegovina.pdf
Clarke-Habibi, S. (n.d.). Teachers ’ perspectives on educating for peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Herzegovina.
Clarke-Habibi, S. (2005). Transforming Worldviews: The Case of Education for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Journal of Transformative Education, 3(1), 33–56.
Ćurković, S., Kirn, G., Krašovec, P., Pejić, D., Jadžić, M., & Ćurčić, B. (2011). Tranzicija i solidarnost. JugoLink, 1(1). http://jugolink.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/jugolink_prvi_broj.pdf
Danesh, H. B. (Ed.). (2011). Education for Peace Reader (Vol. 4). Education for Peace. http://efpinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/efp_reader.pdf
David, L. (2010). Državni projekat sećanja i zaborava: sretenje kao novi master komemorativni narativ savremene Srbije. In D. Majstorović (Ed.), Kritičke kulturološke studije u postjugoslovenskom prostoru (pp. 291–314). Filozofski fakultet univerziteta u Banjoj Luci.
Dvornik, S. (2009). Akteri bez drustva: uloga civilnih aktera u postkomunistickim promjenama. Fraktura ; Heinrich Böll Stiftung. https://ba.boell.org/sites/default/files/akteri_bez_drustva.pdf
Funk, J. (2019). Religions as loci of conflict prevention: Local Capacities of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Religious Communities. Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe, 39(5). https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2132&context=ree
Funk, J., & Good, N. (2017). Neizliječena trauma: rad na ozdravljenju i izgradnji mira u BiH. TPO Fondacija.
Funk, J., & Spahić Šiljak, Z. (2018). Bringing Faith into the Practice of Peace. Muslim Paths to Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Reconciliation in Global Context: Why It Is Needed and How It Works (pp. 105–127). SUNY University Press.
Hromadžić, A. (2010). Miješanje u školskim toaletima: mladi i politika pomirenja u poslijeratnoj bosni i hercegovini. In D. Majstorović (Ed.), Kritičke kulturološke studije u postjugoslovenskom prostoru. Filozofski fakultet univerziteta u Banjoj Luci.
Hug, V. (2016). The role of personal relationships in peacebuilding interventions.
Husanović, J., & Arsenijević, D. (2010). Zajednica kao učionica = akademija: Pregled emancipativne politike produkcije znanja. In D. Majstorović (Ed.), Kritičke kulturološke studije u postjugoslovenskom prostoru (pp. 30–39). Filozofski fakultet univerziteta u Banjoj Luci.
Jukić, T. (2010). Narativni kolektivi danila kiša. In D. Majstorović (Ed.), Kritičke kulturološke studije u postjugoslovenskom prostoru (pp. 187–209). Filozofski fakultet univerziteta u Banjoj Luci.
Laketa, S. (2010). Mir mir mir, niko nije kriv: Adornova kritika ideje napretka. In D. Majstorović (Ed.), Kritičke kulturološke studije u postjugoslovenskom prostoru (pp. 114–121). Filozofski fakultet univerziteta u Banjoj Luci.
Little, D., & Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding (Eds.). (2007). Peacemakers in action. Profiles of religion in conflict resolution. Cambridge University Press.
Milutinović-‐bojanić, S. (2010). Građanska neposlušnost versus hejtovanje. In D. Majstorović (Ed.), Kritičke kulturološke studije u postjugoslovenskom prostoru (pp. 210–227). Filozofski fakultet univerziteta u Banjoj Luci.
Popov-Momčinović, Z. (2012). Faith-based aktivizam: novi praktički okvir za promišljanje projekta „Demitologizacije“. In N. Knježević, S. Sremac, & G. Golubović (Eds.), Demitologizacija religijskih narativa na Balkanu: Uloga religija u (post)konfliktnom društvu i procesima pomirenja na prostorima bivše Jugoslavije. Centar za istraživanje religije, politike i društva.
Popov-Momčinović, Z. (2013). Ženski pokret u BiH: Artikulacija jedne kontrakulture. Sarajevo otvoreni centar; Centar za empirijska istraživanja religije u Bosni i Hercegovini; Fondacija CURE.
Popov-Momčinović, Z. (2015). Procesi pomirenja u rodnoj perspektivi: Između esencijalizma i performativnog decentriranja. In Z. Kuburić & M.-A. Brkić (Eds.), Zbornik radova konferencija istraživanje uloge religije o procesu izgradnje povjerenja i pomirenja (pp. 137–156). Centar za empirijska istraživanja religije u BiH; Sveučilište Hercegovina.
Ramet, S. (2004). Explaining the Yugoslav meltdown, 1 “for a charm of pow’rful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble”: theories about the roots of the Yugoslav troubles. Nationalities Papers, 32(4), 731–763. https://doi.org/10.1080/0090599042000296171
Šavija-Valha, N. (2012). Beyond Peacebuilding Assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Resisting the Evil.
Šavija-valha, N., & Šahić, E. (n.d.). Building Trans-ethnic Space. Nansen Dialog Center - Sarajevo. https://ndcsarajevo.org/Dokumenti/BUILDING%20TRANS-ETHNIC%20SPACE.pdf
Sejfija, I. (2009). NVO sektor u BiH: Tranzicijski izazovi. Bosanska Riječ.
Simic, O. (2009). Activism for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Gender Perspective. 8(15), 20.
Spahić Šiljak, Z. (n.d.). Women, Religion and Peace Leadership in Bosnia and Herzegovina. EWI Fellowship Programme.
Spahić Šiljak, Z. (2015). Believers for Social Change: Bridging the Secular Religious Divide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. International Relations and Diplomacy, 3(10), 681–690.
Spahić-Šiljak, Z. (2015). Merhametli Peace is Women’s Peace: Religious and Cultural Practices of Compassion and Neighborliness in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Saika, Jasmina & Haines, Chad (Eds.), Women and Peace in the Islamic World: Gender, Agency, and Influence (pp. 345–364). I. B. Tauris.
Stanton, E., & Kelly, G. (2015). Exploring Barriers to Constructing Locally Based Peacebuilding Theory: The Case of Northern Ireland. International Journal of Conflict Engagement and Resolution, 3(1), 33–52. https://doi.org/doi: 10.5553/IJCER/221199652015003001002 3
Reflections and analysis by peacebuilding practitioners
Bozičević, B. (2009). Reflections on Peacebuilding from Croatia. Berghof Handbook Dialogue, Dialogue Series no. 7. http://www.berghof-handbook.net/documents/publications/dialogue7_bozicevic_comm.pdf
Čengić, N. N. (Ed.). (2017). Kultura sjećanja u četiri lokalne zajednice u Bosni i Hercegovini. Fondacija Mirovna Akademija. http://www.mirovna-akademija.org/rma/images/2018/Kultura_sjecanja_2017.pdf
Franovic, I. (2007). Peacebuilding and Dealing with the Past in the Context of Ethnonationalism [Master]. Coventry University.
Kasumagić-Kafedžić, L., Boerhout, L., Forić, M., Dujković-Blagojević, B., Jusić, S., Moll, N., Parente, M., Reitsema, & Kafedžić, M. (2014). Manual MemoryInMotion: Pedagogical Tool on Culture of Remembrance. Forum ZFD.
Mirovni aktivizam u bosni i hercegovini. (2008). Helsinški parlament građana Banja Luka.
Nedimović, S. (Ed.). (2014). Lice i naličje socijalne pravde u BiH. Fond otvoreno društvo, Fondacija mirovna akademija. http://www.mirovna-akademija.org/rma/images/2014/socijalna_pravda.pdf
Pandžo, A., & Jakubović, A. (2016). Put mira: izgradnja mira i Islam u Bosni i Hercegovini (Prvo izdanje). Udruženje za dijalog u porodici i društvu Mali koraci.
Rill, H. (2010). Slike tih vremena: zivotne price ratnih veterana/veteranki i clanova/clanica njihovih porodica. Centar za nenasilnu akciju. https://www.nenasilje.org/publikacije/pdf/Slike_tih_vremena.pdf
Rill, H., Franovic, I., & Centar za nenasilnu akciju. (2009). I cannot feel good if my neighbor does not. Center for Nonviolet Action. http://nenasilje.org/publikacije/pdf/susjed/susjed-eng.pdf
Rill, H., Šmidling, T., & Bitoljanu, A. (2007). 20 Poticaja za buđenje i promjenu. Centar za nenasilnu akciju.
Šavija-valha, N., & Šahić, E. (n.d.). Building Trans-ethnic Space. Nansen Dialog Center - Sarajevo. https://ndcsarajevo.org/Dokumenti/BUILDING%20TRANS-ETHNIC%20SPACE.pdf
Vukosavljević, N. (2007). Training for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation: Experiences of the “Centre for Nonviolent Action.” Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation.
Ziemer, L., & Fischer, M. (Eds.). (2013). Dealing with the Past in the Western Balkans: Initiatives for Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia (Berghof Report).
Zwart, D. ‘Dilia.’ (2019). Peace Education: Making the Case. Quaker Council for European Affairs. http://www.qcea.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Peace-Education-report.pdf
