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The Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not be indifferent!

On April 19, 1943, Jews condemned to death in the Warsaw Ghetto rose up in an unprecedented heroic struggle against the German occupation. The commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the ghetto uprising is approaching. Joanna Maria Stolarek, director of the Warsaw office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation spoke with Zygmunt Stępiński, director of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN in Warsaw about the commemoration, the nature of remembrance, and the universal message that the uprising and its commemoration bring.

By Joanna Maria Stolarek

Ein Frau mit schwarzen Haaren, die zu einem Zopf geflochten sind, ist von hinten zu sehen.

Germany's Feminist Foreign and Development Policy: Need for Changes in Relations with the South Caucasus

Analyse

The German government is in the process of spelling out a feminist foreign and development policy. This article, aimed at contributing to policy changes based on the new paradigm, suggests how Germany’s policy towards Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, whose political relevance has increased for Berlin due to Russia’s war in Ukraine, could become feminist.

By Dr. Sonja Katharina Schiffers

Foto: Ehrengarde des Innenministeriums der Republika Srpska, Flaggenzug während der Parade zum Tag der Republik 9. Januar (Verfassungsungswidriger Feiertag) Banja Luka, 2019

Misguided Balkans policy. Dangerous appeasement

Analysis

For many years, Western players have been going all out to placate the populistic-nationalist players and their destructive ideologies: yet their questionable methods of appeasement and undemocratic interventions have ended up bolstering the very powers that have come to pose a threat to peace.

By Marion Kraske

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Dossiers

Kitchen table, Martuni, Nagorno-Karabakh, on October 1, 2020.

A painful peace in Nagorno-Karabakh

Elections in South Caucasus

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Publications

Politics of Denial and Dealing with the Past in Western Balkan

Magazine

The Belgrade and Sarajevo offices of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, together
with our editor Miloš Ćirić, have invited relevant voices to reflect on what was
achieved over the past decades in the fields of documentation, memorialization, and
processing of recent history.

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Position Paper On WB6

policy brief

Recommendations and expectations for German and European policy.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has direct and significant implications for the Western Balkans. The lack of a consistent and convincing EU perspective and U.S. engagement in the region opened up space for other actors and scenarios aimed at recomposing the Western Balkans as well as promoted regressive tendencies throughout the region.

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