Bosnia Information
BOSNIA MEDIA & GENERAL INFORMATION LINKS
Several European organizations regularly publish media monitoring
reports.
- The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)
is a conflict-monitoring and
media support charity based in London which publishes the monthly
journal War Report and the bimonthly Tribunal, a review of the Hague
International War Crimes Tribunal. In conjunction with Media Plan
(MP), Bosnia's first independent media research institute with
correspondents in six cities throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina, IWPR is
publishing a weekly monitor of the media
Reportiers Sans Frontieres, the Paris-based press freedom advocacy
organization, sent a fact-finding mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina in
May 1996 and published their findings in this report
The International Crisis Group, a private multi-national organization
devoted to preventing escalation of man-made crises, has a Bosnia
Project, which is monitoring implementation of the Dayton Accords.
They published a report
on Aug. 14
Medienhilfe Ex-Jugoslawien was founded in December 1992 by a group of
volunteer journalists and others committed to the struggle for
independent media in former Yugoslavia. They publish a weekly report
Press Now, an NGO in Netherlands, supports independent media in former
Yugoslavia.
OTHER USEFUL WEB SITES
- AIM [Alternativna Informativna Mreza], the Alternative Information
Network for the former
Yugoslavia, based in Paris.
- Balkans Anti-War and Human Rights Resources
- Berserkistan, a now defunct but highly-regarded interactive online
journal, whose last issue (July 30). Back issues are available at this location
- Bosnian Virtual Fieldtrip, prepared by the Department of Geography at
George Mason University
- Dayton Accords FULL TEXT
- Ex-Yugoslav Press (a links page)
- ONASA, the independent news service in Sarajevo
- OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe), the
intergovernmental organization mandated to monitor compliance with the
Dayton Accords, has a Bosnian election home page
- Map showing all majority ethnic distribution and major towns and
cities can be found at the OSCE site:
Agreements concerning the media are at this location
- The New York Times has a widely-acclaimed on-line feature,
"Bosnia:
Uncertain Paths to Peace
- Pursuing Balkan Peace, a weekly publication of Open Media Research
Institute, is distributed weekly as a supplement to the OMRI Daily Digest and
contains the latest news about developments in Bosnia-Herzegovina. All
issues are archived
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