When Do We Really Mean “Never Again”?
By, Bailey DeWitt
Genocide in the twenty-first century is often too grueling of a topic for most Westerners to fully comprehend. “Never again”, a phrase meant to provide solace in a time of…
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Violence Behind Protesting
By, Madison Williams
Throughout the past generation, our country has become more vocal in the beliefs and stances on the political issues seen throughout the world. With the power of social media, we…
Forgotten: What happens to the Yazidis With the Fall of Islamic State?
By: Matt Dohle, Student of Affton High School, St. Louis, MO
On July 21st, 2017, after nine grueling months of fighting, the Iraqi Army drove out the last remnants of so called Islamic State from Mosul, issuing a major victory in…
Was Sarajevo 1997 Start of “Global Citizen” Consciousness?
By, Ambassador Muhamed (Mo) Sacirbey
Art and music were integral part of defense and global solidarity that helped Sarajevo survive the longest modern siege of a European capital. From around the globe, artists as U2…
#Trump Travel Ban Stigmatizes American and Muslim?
By, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey
While I’m not from any of the “banned” countries or feel particularly religious or only Muslim in my identity, Trump does seek to stigmatize anyone who may be identified as…
UN-TV, Production & Technology of Diplomat-Artist
By, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey with Susan Sacirbey contributing
As renovation of the United Nations was being completed several years ago, I made one of my casual visits to the old studios of UN TV. It felt like the…
Austria to Bosnia Diplomatic Connection
By, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey
It was not the “Muslim majority” countries or the super-power that projected freedom as its international commitment. Bosnia & Herzegovina’s (BiH) first true diplomatic friend was Austria and this robust…
Zbigniew Brzezinski & the Battle on Post Communism Fascism
By, Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey
After the fall of the Soviet Union what was left is a naked fascism for which communism was more pretext than guiding ideology. Post Soviet Russia may have had a…
Forgotten #Children as World Ignores a Current #Genocide ?
Where is our humanity? From Susan Sacirbey
Who are these children who have a name and an identity that has also given them the UN label “the most persecuted people in the world” ? They are Myanmar…
In majority-Muslim Bosnia and Herzegovina, a Small Jewish Community still Thrives
By any measure you choose, anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe. But in Europe’s only Muslim country, Jews say they couldn’t feel more at home, reports Maya Shwayder, Deutsche…