How to creatively approach history teaching

Auxiliary teaching material “How to creatively approach history teaching” contains written preparations for teachers, students in the teaching of teaching units with topics:
“Faces of Resistance” and “Suppression of History and Remembrance” by Goran Đurđević in Documenta – Center for dealing with the past.

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Language: Croatian

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Home in a foreign land

Documentary “Home in a foreign land” is about the people (refugees) who, after the war, exchanged their apartments and houses with people who have fled from them during the armed conflict in BiH. Authors of the film: Davorka Turk, Nedžad Novalić. Production: Center for Nonviolent Action (CNA, 2017)

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Language: Bosnian

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The Unforgiven

Documentary “The Unforgiven” of Danish director Lars Feldbale Petersen. Esad Lando has been trying to reconcile with his war-past for years. A war criminal is returning to BiH to meet with a friend, a former guard of the camp, his victims and his family.

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Language: Bosnian, English, Danish

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The Depth Two

“The Depth Two” is a documentary about the mass grave discovered in Batajnica in 2001, in which bodies of Kosovo Albanians, civilians killed during the war in Kosovo, were found. The film is a combination of testimonials and photographs of places where these crimes took place 17 years ago. The author and director of this film is Ognjen Glavonic. The film was produced by Non-Aligned Films in 2016.

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Language: Serbian

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15 minutes – Massacre in Dvor

Documentary “15 Minutes – Massacre in Dvor” (58: 39, 2015) directed by Georg Larsen, Kasper Vedsmand and the production Final Cut for Real (Denmark) Nukleus Film (Croatia) is about the crime that took place in the elementary school building on 8. August 1995, when a group of unidentified persons killed nine people with disabilities, Serbs and Croats, just a few meters from the camp of the Danish army at UN forces in Dvor na Uni, Croatia.

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Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, English, Danish

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Textbooks of History in Post-Conflict Societies: Education for Reconciliation?

Title: V Transitional Justice Forum: History Textbooks in Post-Conflict Societies: Education for Reconciliation?, Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade 2015.

Editor: Marijana Toma
Authors: Augusta Dimou, Peter Gauci, Ivan Jovanovic, Vera Kac, Snjezana Koren, Dubravka Stojanovic.

The publication deals with the issue of the role of education in the processes of dealing with the past and reconciliation, with a special emphasis on the content of history textbooks in post-conflict societies and democratization processes. The Handbook contributes to a public debate about how the topics from the nearest past are dealt with in history textbooks.

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Language: Serbian

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One history, several histories

The publication “Annex to the Textbooks for the Newest History” was published by Documenta (2008) – The Center for Dealing with the Past and the European Movement Split. Authors: Snježana Koren, Magdalena Najbar-Agičić, Tvrtko Jakovina.

An addendum to the textbooks with chronicle contains an auxiliary teaching material (handbook) for the teaching of history based on a multiperspectival approach to history teaching. The teaching material contains the original material, visual content, charts, maps and other content for the period from 1989 to the time of publication.

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Language: Croatian

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Library – Humanitarian Law Center

The Humanitarian Law Center has a specialized library dedicated to the collection and preservation of materials related to areas of transitional justice, dealing with the past, humanitarian law, as well as history, sociology, and other related fields. In addition, its fund consists of memoirs, essays, reports from various organizations, transcripts from conferences, testimonies, documentaries, etc.

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Language: Serbian

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Dealing with the past

“Dealing with the past” is the platform of Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst e. V. (forumZFD) with the topic of dealing with the past and establishing dialogue in the Western Balkans. “Dealing with the past” is published by the regional magazine Balkan.Perspectives.

Availability: http://www.dwp-balkan.org/bh/

Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, English, Albanian

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