Resources on the Internet

WORLD WIDE WEB SITES
Journalism and Photojournalism | U.S. Government Agencies | United Nations Agencies | Nonprofit, Humanitarian and Advocacy Groups | Academic Sites | Local, Historical and Touristic Sites | Missing Persons | Other References | Newsgroups
JOURNALISM AND PHOTOJOURNALISM

Berserkistan
Information-rich site with glossy magazine-style layout. Features and photos from the war zone. Created by Pacific Interactive Media Corporation.

Sarajevo Online
Dispatches, art, timely news and opinion direct from the people of Sarajevo.

Civil War in Yugoslavia
Christopher Morris's photos on this Black Star site present a powerful portrait of the horrors of the war in Bosnia.

Discovery Channel Online
Colorful feature on the war in Bosnia. Includes video clips, a war diary, and a section on missing children.

Faces of Sorrow
This former museum photo exhibit includes the work of more than 36 international photojournalists. The exhibit was sponsored by Time Magazine, the United Nations and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

The Christian Science Monitor
The Monitor's Pulitizer Prize-winning coverage of the Bosnian conflict has been featured on this site.

Court TV
Court TV's comprehensive archive of tribunal data, ranging from who's who, war crimes charges and history, to a look back at Nuremberg and international law.

Farewell to Bosnia
This lyrical site features words and photos by Gilles Peress, based on an earlier visit to Bosnia.

Hot Zones
A journalist's survival guide with practical information about everything from body armor to hotels in Sarajevo. Produced by Norman Green and Drew Clark of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

USA Today
The daily paper's online Bosnia coverage. With a heavy focus on the American military presence.

Journalists at War
Maintained by the London International Research Exchange, this site contains essays on media coverage of post-Cold War conflicts.

The Balkan Crisis
Various articles from the archives of Atlantic Monthly's online magazine, including a report dated 1913.

U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Bosnia Link
The Pentagon's online source for official information on the U.S. presence in Bosnia. Includes maps, press releases, photos, and links to other U.S. government sites relating to Bosnia.

U.S. Policy on Bosnia
Official State Department information on U.S. foreign policy toward Bosnia.

Croatia Fact Sheet
Facts, figures, and a map from the CIA World Factbook.

Bosnia and Herzegovina Fact Sheet
Facts, figures, and a map from the CIA World Factbook.

Serbia and Montenegro Fact Sheet
Facts, figures, and a map from the CIA World Factbook.

UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES

United Nations Home Page
Official documents, photos and proceedings of the United Nations, maintained by its Department of Public Information.

United Nations International Criminal Tribunal
Press releases from the War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

Commission of Experts on Former Yugoslavia
The commission of experts was established by the United Nations Security Council in 1992 in response a resolution relating to war crimes in the former Yugoslavia.

NONPROFIT, HUMANITARIAN AND ADVOCACY GROUPS

Balkan Media & Policy Monitor
An up-to-date site provided by Media Filter with news and analyses about the recent peace initiatives and the war crimes tribunal.

The Bosnian Home Page
A look at the conflict in Bosnia from a pro-Bosnian and anti-United Nations Perspective.

Sociamedia
A Dutch media foundation specializing in telecommunication to the former Yugoslavia.

ZaMir Transnational Network Info (ZTN)
Communications pipeline provides Internet access to residents of the former Yugoslavia. Index of communication out of the war zone.

The Balkan Institute
A pro-Bosnian non-profit organization based in Washington featuring a weekly newsletter. Directed by Marshall Freeman Harris and Steve Walker, former U.S. diplomats who resigned in protest of U.S. policy toward Bosnia. Links to the American Committee to Save Bosnia.

Amnesty International Online
The "Country Reports" section has links to Amnesty documents relating to Bosnia. 1995 and 1994.

Serious Road Trip
Dedicated to bringing aid and diversion to young people in depressed and ravaged countries such as Bosnia.

This Week in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Sponsored by the Boston-based Bosnia Action Coalition, this site provides an updated round-up of Bosnia related news.

Humanitarian Efforts in Bosnia
A list of links on this site includes a directory of U.S. charities working in Bosnia, a photo gallery and other Internet resources.

ACADEMIC SITES

Geopolitics in Yugoslavia
"Bosnia 101" from a Howard University professor. Provides responses to frequently asked questions about the region from a perspective critical of the Bosnians.

Academic Lifeline for Bosnia and Herzegovina
This World University Service lists sites promoting the right to education, academic freedom and academic cooperation in the former Yugoslavia.

Macedonia Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you wanted to know about the southern former Yugoslav republic.

Project Bosnia
Villanova University's plan to put computers in the hands of Bosnian government officials.

Bosnian Virtual Fieldtrip
A tour of the region through history, maintained by George Mason University. Includes maps of the region, photographs from the war, descriptions of the major players and forum for comment.

LOCAL, HISTORICAL AND TOURISTIC SITES

City Net's Banja Luka home page
Site focusing on the culture and folklore of the city of Banja Luka. Lovingly created by Bosnian students in Toronto. In English and Serbo-Croatian.

Tuzla's Home Page
An online brochure for the war-ravaged city from City Net.

Banja Luka
Like a travel brochure. The site boasts that CNN voted it the "most politically neutral Bosnia-related material on the Internet."

MISSING PERSONS

Radio Link
This program of the BBC World Service and the International Committee of the Red Cross allows relatives and friends of those missing in the former Yugoslavia to browse a list of about 500 names.

People Finder Service
A searchable database listing the names of displaced or missing persons from the former Yugoslavia. A resource for relatives searching for their loved ones. From Applied Computing Solutions, Inc.

OTHER REFERENCES

Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina Information Page
This vast and comprehensive site boasts some 3,000 hotlinks, presenting news, documents and data in seven European languages, maintained by volunteers in Germany and the Netherlands. Includes updated BBC and Federation Radio RealAudio broadcasts.

Former Yugoslavia in Cyberspace
A list of WWW and other Internet resources about the former Yugoslavia provided by the Institute for Global Communications. Last update appears to be December 1995.

BBC World Service
A list of the times and frequencies of BBC broadcasts to the former Yugoslavia in Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, and Slovenian.

A List of Humanitarian and Relief Organizations
From the Croatia Information Pages.

NEWSGROUPS

Serbo-Croatian Mailing Lists
Specialized subscription newsgroups relating to nations of the former Yugoslavia.

Bosnia Newsgroups
Non-subscription newsgroup for text, maps and pictures relating to Bosnia.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A selected reading list of works about the former Yugoslavia.