The GroundTruth Project
June 27, 2014
One hundred years after the First World War, boundaries established after the armistice at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh hour" still shape many of today's conflicts. From ISIS's invasion of Mosul to Boko Haram's kidnapping of schoolgirls, GlobalPost co-founder Charles Sennott journeys from Iraq to Nigeria to the Balkans to Northern Ireland and the Holy Land to see how WWI's history lives on, the lessons learned — and far too often not learned.
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Conflict & Justice
Why Bosnians are so angry at their government
PRI's The World
February 10, 2014
A week of unrest has shaken Bosnia-Hercegovina. Nearly 20 years after the end of the civil war there, people have had enough of government corruption and incompetence.
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Lifestyle & Belief
This Bosnian War survivor has a musical interpretation of the Sarajevo Haggadah
PRI's The World
April 14, 2014
The Sarajevo Haggadah was written in the 14th century as an illustrated guide to the Passover seder. Bosnian-born composer and concert accordionist Merima Kljuco was inspired to turn the book, and its story, into a piece of music.
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Conflict & Justice
A journalist who covered the Bosnian war testifies in war crimes trial of a key Serb commander
PRI's The World
May 21, 2014
The brutal war in Bosnia ended nearly 20 years ago. But at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague the conflict is still being dissected in detail. At the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, the prosecution has wrapped. Now for the defence.
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Sports
Even if they lose, Bosnia-Herzegovina's national team has already won
PRI's The World
June 13, 2014
This Sunday, Bosnia-Herzegovina will play its first World Cup match ever. More than two decades after the country was torn apart by ethnic violence, this national team symbolizes a new page in the country's history.
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Why World War I still matters, 100 years after it began
The GroundTruth Project
June 27, 2014
One hundred years after the First World War, boundaries established after the armistice at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh hour" still shape many of today's conflicts. From ISIS's invasion of Mosul to Boko Haram's kidnapping of schoolgirls, GlobalPost co-founder Charles Sennott journeys from Iraq to Nigeria to the Balkans to Northern Ireland and the Holy Land to see how WWI's history lives on, the lessons learned — and far too often not learned.
Arts, Culture & Media
The poetry of Radovan Karadzic
PRI's The World
July 31, 2008
Anchor Lisa Mullins talks with Chris Merrill, director of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program and The World's book critic, about a poem called "A Morning Bomb;� the writer was former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic
Arts, Culture & Media
Geo answer - Global Hit
PRI's The World
August 04, 2008
The answer to today's Geo Quiz is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo. It's the hometown of Bosnian musician Damir Imamovic who is trying to revive the traditional folk music known as sevdah.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Sarajevo: Grief Over Bosnia War Anniversary
PRI's The World
April 06, 2012
Residents of Sarajevo marked the twentieth anniversary of the start of Balkan civil war on Friday. The siege of Sarajevo was one of the most brutal episodes of the wars that accompanied the break up of Yugoslavia.
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Arts, Culture & Media
'Studio 360: Art that Means War'
Studio 360
February 28, 2008
Susan Sontag and others talk about how artists help us to make sense of war -- from photography and books to poetry and film.
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Politics
Srebrenica elections lays bare old tensions between Serbs, Bosniaks
PRI's The World
October 01, 2012
Srebrenica was the site of one of the worst atrocities of the lengthy Serbian civil war. Thousands of Bosniaks, Bosnian Muslims, were killed there. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is largely Serbian. But a quirk of policy has allowed Bosniaks who moved out of town to continue to vote in the city's elections. But that's poised to change.