By U.S. Ambassador, Eric Nelson As Bosnia and Herzegovina marks 25 years of peace, guaranteed by the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA), it is time to not only assess progress since the DPA, but more importantly to look to the future. The…
ACBH CELEBRATES BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA’S STATEHOOD DAY
November 25, 2020 – Washington, D.C. – On this day in 1943, over two hundred delegates from all across Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) came together in a town called Mrkonjic Grad and formed the…
FOREIGN POLICY OF THE NEW US ADMINISTRATION FOR EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND WESTERN BALKANS
International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES[1]) from Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses developments in the Middle East, the Balkans and around the world. After the presidential elections in the US,…
25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAYTON PEACE ACCORDS: THE PATH FORWARD
DESCRIPTION: This month marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, a U.S. brokered peace deal that ended the three and a half years of ethnic cleansing and…
JOURNAL REVIEW: ILLUMINATIO/SVJETIONIK /ALMANA: THE JOURNAL FOR NEW IDEAS
GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY: Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe Reviewer: Dr. İbrahim Karataş, Istanbul, Turkey. JOURNAL REVIEW Illuminatio/Svjetionik /Almana: The Journal for New Ideas. Published by Al-Wasatiyya Center for Dialogue, Sarajevo,…
2020 LOCAL ELECTIONS IN BIH: INTRODUCTION INTO TECTONIC CHANGES ON THE POLITICAL SCENE
International Institute for Middle East and Balkan Studies (IFIMES) from Ljubljana, Slovenia, regularly analyses developments in the Middle East and the Balkans. On the occasion of local elections in BiH, scheduled to…
USCMO CONGRATULATES MUSLIM VOTERS ON HISTORIC TURNOUT, ENCOURAGES PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN TO ADVANCE JUSTICE
(WASHINGTON, DC – 11/10/2020) The US Council of Muslim Organizations today congratulated President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris on their victory, and commended Muslim American voters for playing a decisive role…
AGAIN, AND AGAIN
The era of untruths in all aspects of societal arrangements, and in particular in politics and geo-politics, has taken a firm hold of our daily lives. Untruths are de rigueur items of…
ISLAM IS SALVATION FOR EUROPE AGAIN
They Say: The Foundation of Western Civilization: Reason Above Faith! True! But the West has learned that from Islam, it learned from Islam to use sound reason. Isn’t that so? If there…
AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON OF FRANCE
Dear President Macron, It is out of respect toward the French nation that I address you, with expressions of esteem, as a symbol of the French Republic. Otherwise, you do not deserve…