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NEWS AND INFORMATION:
Documents, analyses, and commentary on the conflicts in the Balkans from Global Beat, a resource service for journalists covering international News. A service of The Global Reporting Network (GRN). The GRN works with journalists, editors, producers and editorial writers around the world to support their efforts to provide accurate, in-depth and balanced news coverage and analysis of critical international issues and events.
For in depth, up to date news and articles regarding the Former Yugoslavia, and beyond, see the Institute For War and Peace Reporting.


The Center for War, Peace, and the News Media
is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to supporting journalists and news organizations worldwide in their efforts to sustain an informed and engaged citizenry.

UN: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)


EDUCATIONAL:

NY Times lesson plans on Bosnia.


Yours, Mine and Ours: Determining Boundaries
: In this lesson students assume the roles of decision makers in a boundary dispute.They are asked to consider existing boundaries and other characteristics of an area to reach a consensus on whether an area should be divided or remain a single political entity.


A Web Guide to the Balkan Conflict
: A wealth of links and information about the Balkans.
MOVIES:
No Man's Land is a film directed by Danis Tanovic (debut). Set during the 1993 Bosnian Conflict, this is the story of two soliders, a Bosnian, Ciki (Djuric), and a Serb, Nino (Bitorajac), who find themselves trapped in "No Man's Land", a trench between both sides, next to an injured Bosnian lying on a mine that could kill them all. Soon, an U.N. sergeant (Siatidis), trying to help, attracts the attention of the international press. This film won a Best Foreign Picture Golden Globe and Oscar.

MUSIC:

A testament to a friendship started 15 years ago, tested by distance and destruction, diaSonic
(formerly known as Balkan Tribes) formed in 1995. The now U.S. based duo combines elements of electronic dance music and addictively lulling vocals with elements of ethnic music stemming from their native countries: Serbia and Bosnia, creating songs that move both body and soul and evoke times and places that mystify the mind.

USING THE MEDIA TO FIGHT BACK:

FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization which exposes neglected news stories and efends working journalists when they are muzzled. Click here to visit their information on Yugoslavia and the Balkans.



WITNESS has worked with over 125 WITNESS partner groups from 47 countries to use video to overcome political, economic, and physical barriers, and to expose human rights abuses to the world via television, grassroots advocacy, and Internet broadcasting. Check out the organization that Peter Gabriel co-founded.

Click here for "Alternative Perspectives on the Current War on Terrorism."

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