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  • EASTERN BOSNIA - APRIL 2001: This are my grandmother’s hands. She survived two wars. 2nd World War and the Bosnian war for independence. Most of her family was exterminated in 2nd world war. Pretty much the offspring of the people that killed her family in 2nd world war committed atrocities in Bosnia in early 90’s. Eastern Bosnia is on the border with neighboring Serbia with river Drina as a natural border. Through the history Bosnia was always a border country between East and West, during the Ottoman period it was the border post towards Austrian empire, before that it was border between Eastern and Western Empire. This position made Bosnia quite a unique conglomerat of ckutures,traditions,religions. Other than that it didn't bring us too much good. When the war was over, a foreign journalist came to interview my professor of poetry, Marko Vesovic. Entering his appartment, the journalist noticed my professor's dog who was lying in a corner. 'What remarkable blue eyes he has,' the journalist said. 'Well, you see,' explained my professor, 'the dog used to eat the same food we ate during the war. Now he is blind. Dogs are ageing seven times faster than we do, so with us it is different. We still have to wait for the effects on us. I never witnessed a mortar shell exploding in front of the people in the market place or a sniper shooting someone in front of my high school. I was always a couple of seconds or minutes late, or I would pass by the market place just before the shell exploded and killed more than sixty people waiting to buy groceries, or I would be running in a dark street with broken glass falling on me. But I've seen people cleaning the streets after shelling, I've seen what was left of a young man after a thirty-kilo shell exploded near him, and I've also seen the face of woman who survived this unhurt. Lately, when I was in Jerusalem for the first time, I wanted to visit the Al-Aksa mosque. At the entrance I was stopped by an Israeli soldier, a native Russian, and an Arab guard of the mosque. 'You are not allowed to enter,' said the soldier. 'You are not Muslim.' 'But I am!' I insisted. They wouldn't believe me. In Italy, I told an acquaintance of mine that I was a Muslim. He was irritated. 'But then,' he said, 'you cannot be a European.' 'But I am!' I replied. The Turks have left us with an unsolved national question. Religion and culture have always been strongly intermingled in our country. When the Ottoman Empire conquered Bosnia in 1453, the strategy it used to establish its rule was Roman: Divide et impera. Religion was the vehicle. Favouring the Muslims helped the Turks run the country, but it divided the Bosnians. In the 19th century, during the era of Romanticism, when Central Europeans began to build up their ideas of nationhood based on concepts of cultural uniqueness, Bosnians developed their own cultural identities out of religious affiliations. But these cultural identities failed to develop into the idea of a Bosnian nation: Bosnian Catholics and Bosnian Orthodox were seduced by the ideas of a Great Serbia or a Great Croatia. Today Bosnia is a resort of moderate, autonomous European Islam. Actually most of the population are Christians: Orthodox and Catholics. The Arab countries were not too impressed by the Bosnian version of Islam and their help wasn't sufficient to help us defend ourselves against the former Yugoslav Army, one of the strongest armies in Europe. The body count in the recent war was almost all Bosnian Muslim, but for the first time in the last two hundred years we have a state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a language that is recognized….We've never been closer to a nation. I'm afraid that the fact that Bosnians are white helped us a lot. Probably that's why it took only four years for NATO to intervene in Bosnia. Before the fall of Srebrenica, the UN safe haven zone, foreign involvement was on the level of bringing humanitarian aid, mostly only where the Serbian Army allowed, and counting the shells and bombs falling on Bosnian cities. Then after the fall of Srebrenica and the massacre of Bosnian Muslims that followed it, NATO bombed the Serbian positions and brought peace. The first shelling of their positions around Sarajevo came at night. I remember our windows, covered with humanitarian nylon sheeting with UN signs instead of glass, opening because of the detonations, this time on the Serbian side. My mother cooked a pie to celebrate it. Our lives during the war were reduced to the basics. Having a bath with five-litre canisters and then using the water for the toilet. Making meat pie without meat. We became experts at peeing in the dark. The path to happiness was very short, and the learning curve was steep. Once we all adopted these vital skills, and even got used to our little limbo and for a moment stopped talking about peace, our politicians signed the peace agreement. We have a new anthem now. We also have a new flag. It shows a dark blue ground on which is placed a golden triangle, a row of golden stars on one side. The triangle is meant to represent Bosnia and the row of stars I guess imply the European Union. Today we have to stand in a queue to get a visa for every European country. The writer Ivo Andric, one of two Bosnian Nobel Prize winners, described Bosnia in one of his novels as a 'valley of darkness'. The valley is surely dark; it is dark with Bosnian blood, it is darkened by American ignorance and European impotence, it is dark because of the clouds above. Yet it is our valley (Photo by Ziyah Gafic/Exclusive by Getty Images)

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KONKURS ZA OTVORENU POZICIJU SARADNIKA/CE ZA KOMUNIKACIJE U TRIAL INTERNATIONAL – UREDU U BIH

Written by TRIAL International - Ured u BiH on . Posted in Novosti

TRIAL International traži novog/u kolegu/icu!

Ako želite postati dio TRIAL International tima u Bosni i Hercegovini i ako ispunjavate uslove navedene u oglasu, prijavite se za poziciju Saradnika/ce za komunikacije do 15. januara 2022. godine.

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POSITION                      Communications Officer

PLACE OF WORK           TRIAL International Office in Sarajevo

EMPLOYMENT RATE      (full time position, 100%)

JOB DESCRIPTION

As Communications Officer, the candidate will be in charge of the following tasks:

Editorial tasks

  • Writing, editing and creating content for websites and social networks (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube);
  • Coordinating production of publications (editing, proofreading, design, printing and distribution), as well as productions of various digital media content (design, texts, translation, video/image editing and other digital media related production tasks) in partnership with photographers, videographers, graphic designers etc.;
  • Translating various documents (legal and non-legal) relevant to the work of the organisation;
  • Perform other relevant tasks when necessary.

Media and public relations 

  • Writing, editing and distributing various communications content, including press releases, media statements, reports, analysis, interviews, speeches, presentations and other material that communicates TRIAL International’s activities;
  • Handling media enquiries, establishing and maintaining effective relationships with journalists, maintaining a media database, maintaining records of media coverage and collating analytics of social media;
  • Maintaining correspondence with domestic and international institutions, non-governmental organisations, etc.;
  • Organising conferences, workshops and other events;
  • Presenting the work of the organisation to various actors, at meetings and other events, inside and outside of the country.

Strategic planning 

  • Developing and implementing a communication strategy jointly with rest of the team to promote the activities of the organisation;
  • Assisting in the preparation of project proposals and strategic plans required for TRIAL International’s work, in collaboration with other team members. 

Research and analysis 

  • Conduct research and analysis in collaboration with the rest of the team on various issues of relevance to the work of TRIAL International / the BiH office;
  • Maintaining various communication, legal and administrative databases.

CONDITIONS, QUALIFICATIONS AND WORK EXPERIENCE 

  • Education: BA in Social Sciences or other relevant subject (MA is an asset); basic knowledge of the human rights protection mechanisms, transitional justice and international criminal law will be considered as advantage; 
  • Work experience: A minimum of 2 years of professional experience relevant to the position, experience in work with NGOs will be considered as advantage; 
  • Languages: Native in one of the official languages in BiH and excellent command of English (oral and written); 
  • Other: Strong writing skills and demonstrated commitment and dedication to human rights.

We offer good working conditions in the positive and dynamic surrounding that gives an opportunity for personal growth and additional development of work competences.

 APPLICATION

If you are interested in this position, apply by 15th January 2023, by sending necessary documents to the e-mail address: bh@trialinternational.org titled “Application for Communications Officer”.

1.  Motivational letter;

2.  CV;

3.  A brief writing sample which demonstrates applicant’s skills (article, academic paper, policy brief or memo, news article, blog post or web content).

Only complete applications will be reviewed and only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

ABOUT THE ORGANISATION

TRIAL International is a non-governmental organisation fighting against impunity for international crimes and supporting victims in their search for justice. The organisation provides legal aid, files cases, develops local capacities and advocates the human rights agenda.

For more information, visit TRIAL International website at: www.trial.ba and www.trialinternational.org, and FB page.