Merdijana Sadović
Senior Project Manager
Senior Project Manager
Merdijana Sadović joined IWPR in 2004, originally as a reporter, and then as the Regional Director for Western Balkans. She has been working on media development, international justice and reconciliation projects in the region for more than 15 years. She was a field producer for ABC News and their Sarajevo bureau chief from 1995 till 2004, covering the war in Bosnia, the deployment of NATO troops and post-war reconstruction. Merdijana is also an experienced radio journalist, who worked for the Bosnian National Radio and various local radio stations as a producer, host and editor-in-chief.
Realistic expectations will be needed to manage painfully slow and often disputed justice processes that are unlikely to contribute to reconciliation.
But the international community’s unprecedented unity and support comes in sharp contrast to their response three decades ago.
Despite nationalist politics elsewhere, residents refuse to be divided along ethnic lines.
Amid mounting crisis, another armed conflict is more plausible than at any other time since the end of the 1992-95 war.
Oscar-nominated film reminds us that, 25 years after Srebrenica, coexistence is far from harmonious.
Reporters honoured for work on those facing discrimination and exclusion.
Physical contact and strong social bonds got us through the war. Nothing could prepare us for social distancing.
Hardline Bosnian Serb leader suspends – at least temporarily – his divisive rhetoric.
Amid the worst violence to hit country since the end of the war, some are hoping the unrest will prompt real political change.
Small band of doctors treated horrendous injuries without anaesthetics in besieged town.