XVII
Walk of Shame XVII ended at Paolo’s, like the Walk Peace before…
I would also like to refer to:
- WoSI: PAR Framework (WoS evaluation)
- Walk of Serbia: Actor-Mapping;
- Trilogie Meet&Walk Trento: what’s in a name, Dynamics of the Balkan Route, SOP.
Programme:
| Fri, 18. | Zagreb – Sarajevo | 
just the 8 of us:fate brought us together on the way to Sarajevo. Oh no, Hermann & Shouke came directly to Sarajevo. Here we eat together with… downtown… |
| Sat, 19. | Tunnel of Hope |
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| Sanella |
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| Sun, 20. | Hamza et al. | |
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| Mon, 21. | CWS |
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| Lipa | 
Symbolbild: Because we followed the no-pictures-taking rule at Lipa Camp, I use instead a picture from the visit to the tunnel of hope. Lipa Camp has a Capacity of 1500. With the children and family wings externalised into town, the occupancy is at around 200. Transition from IOM oversight to national ownership shows. |
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| Tue, 22. | Ipsia |  
BRAT is a programme by the Italian Development Association supporting minors and vulnerable populations in mending social cohesion after the migrant crisis in Bosnia. CWS is part of it while JRS have come on board later instead of EMMAUS. SDGs are mainstreamed and monitored according to the indicator 10.7.2… |
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| Wed, 23. | JRC |
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| Thu, 24. |
Cemetery |
  memorial interreligious dialogue |
Fragen und Antworten…… wie ich mir den Prozess vorstelle: …contributing your feelings and opinion with regard to the memory to the unknown victims of the Balkan route.
How is the process of such decision-making to be led, to maximise reflexivity, participation, dignity and effect? I still believe that upgrading (activating and instrumentalising for these purposes) the adjacent monument of inter-religious dialogue would be the best use of the money. And I’m slightly disappointed that not even the grief experts among us come up with such understanding of what is and what should be, but that this community of practice (of ours) far more tends towards negating anything that doesn’t lie on the path of how things go. Ich erinnere außerdem an die (Kunst-) Aktion des Institut für politische Schönheit, der 2016? Kreuze an die Türkische Grenze gefahren hat Meine Überlegungen dürfen gerne nachvollziehbar sein, in erster Linie geht es mir aber um eine Kriteriensammlung und Prozesssteuerung. (Und in zweiter Linie tatsächlich um dieses unsägliche Monument der Kriegsverherrlichung, von dem ich mich garnicht traue zu spreche wegen relativierender Gegenstimmen). Dieses Rondell, zentral und prominent auf dem Friedhof, den Gefallenen der letzten Balkan Kriege gedenkend, beeindruckt jeden naiven oder Trauer-geschwächten Besucher des Friedhofs. Es konkurriert mit und überragt und verdrängt das Gedenken an die unbekannten Toten der Balkan-Route. Das Monument des interkulturellen Dialogs könnte einen Ausgleich schaffen. Ja, dieser Friedhof und seine Denkmäler mögen verwirren! Verstand es (bzw. sie, die Hintergundgeschichte) immer als flexibel, dynamisch und reflexiv aktivier- und instrumentalisierbar. In diesem (symbolischen) Sinn hab auch die Nutzung als Notunterkunkt von PoMs begrüßt und verteidigt. Also, wie geht’s weiter / vorwärts? Was hältst Du von meiner Prozessskizze? Würde noch n bisschen Wellen schlagen müssen, um Partizipation einzufordern und Transparenz zu schaffen. Hab aber auch nur begrenzt Kapazitäten (und Nerven). Wo siehst Du die Chancen, den existierenden Fond (für die Gräber) als Anschubfinanzierung für die Aktivierung und Instrumentalisierung des Monuments zu nutzen..? Du meinst, ich sei zu verbissen? Ich liebe den (anarchistischen) Provisisorismus in Bosnien, sehe darin einerseits große kreative Potentiale andererseits ebenso die Möglichkeiten der kontraproduktiven Instrumentalisierung… Naivität, Ignoranz und Verblendung… sind die Türöffner und Steigbügel für die ganze internationale Miserie, in der wir uns befinden… Ich mein (und komm vom Häpfchen zum Zäpfchen), die Geflüchtetenwelle von 2015 ist 1:1 mit der Finanzlage (Insolvenz) von UNHCR im Mittleren Osten zu erklären. Wenn jetzt UNRWA kollabiert, machen sich weitere 6mio Menschen auf den Weg. Wo ist der Plan? Du möchtest die Kritik, die man natürlich ein bisschen geschickt formulieren und ausarbeiten müsste, an SOS-Balkanroute rückmelden und vorschlagen, das Monument mitzudenken?! Könntest ja mal bei ihnen nachfragen, was die Idee war… team@sos-balkanroute.at. verstehe den Unmut, aber das ist mir ein bisschen zu unterkomplex als Erklärung für die Welt. Aber ja, es wird nicht einfacher und in Anbetracht dessen mag man nur den Kopf schütteln in Reaktion auf diese unnötigen Debatten und das populistische Geschwafel. Habe eben erst “aus Versehen” ne schlimme Doku in der ARD-Mediathek gesehen….Grenzen der Zuwanderung heißt die. Eine Katastrophe. Hab mich direkt mal bei ARD und dem Autor beschwert und der taz gesagt, die soll das mal anschauen. 😀 |
Having wondered for some time how well assistance was delivered to migrants in the difficult political environment of Velika Kladusa, where two Muslim fractions had fought each other during the war, some understanding has been gained today: Alma whose father had been an Imam and Jasmin whose two brothers had fought on opposite sides of the war, set up formally the organisation Rahma, collecting international donations and distributing locally. Help for refugees seems to have been a natural platform for redemption. Peace schooling a la Franjo Starcevic may be another way for reconciliation and active peace maintenance.Team-Building
In the darkness
You light a candle
that never dies
that never dies
Just the 8 of us…
You see, my grandfather, after his 6-months nighty flight from Sibiria, heeded Titos call and participated in building the Autoput…That’s how I came to Bosnia to implement the Dayton peace agreement…
…Having written his PhD thesis at the Nazi Race Institute (with an avantgardistic methodology concluding that the Suabian (“Šwabo”) people actually decent from a “Gypsy” tribe, he was a Nazi, no question… He escaped from Russian captivity and walked for 6 month night after night. But every day he found some friendly locals who would hide him. He felt the uttermost gratitude and respect for the Russian people all his life.
He arrived back home on my mothers 2nd birthday, onn13.08.1946, the first born complaining, who is this man? While switching between Pevertin (“Panzerschokolade” = Crystal Meth) and Morphium addiction, his university career picked up, only because of my grandmother doing all the (mediocre) work…
In 1956? he left for Yugoslavia, not being able to bear the bigotry and hypocrisy of post-war Germany. My mother would never be able to forgive him for leaving her, blaming the Communists for hijacking fathers, and denying me by the Foreign Office during my assignments in the Balkans
Maybe he met Giacomo Scotti who came to join Yugoslavia from Napoli, I think around that time
He had a stroke in 1978 while on the loo pressing too hard, so they say, when in fact everybody was happy that he couldn’t speak any more. A true activist
Back to the original claim: I concede to the official compromise, according to which Tito could keep the communal tensions under the carpet for a while… but even in this reading, that while was considerably longer than the functioning of the Dayton regime
I’m trying to build an argument against nation-building and a bridge to the Ukraine where offensive nation-building has led to a proxy war… but fail. Because every conflict and war is unique?
SOP
standart operational procedures
P….rogramme
… A …ction: … methodology (toolbox, techniques, tool), organisation, …
… … R.ts-pro-toto.de
communications
finances
After discussing with Anna, I would like to propose for the next Walk to create a fund / pool the (minimum) expected expenses beforehand and have one “finance officer” to pay the bills. It should provide for some more planning security to attract new Walkers, greater reliability and transparency and maybe even attract small scale donation / sponsorship. To be expected left-overs can be used to help out friends on the ground in a low-key but united manner. I also think, the Sunday Zoom meeting and it’s facebook messenger group (reactivating / filling with meaning existing structures instead of fragmenting discussions) should be used to discuss and announce respectively this and those issues.
Issues:
* (dynamic) Map of Engagement (from WoS Serbia)
* changing requirements and responses of the Balkanroute
