| WARM Festival | |
|---|---|
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| Status | active |
| Genre | Art festival |
| Location(s) | Sarajevo |
| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Years active | 2014 - present |
| Founder | WARM Foundation |
| Website | www |
The WARM Festival, established by the WARM Foundation, is an international festival on contemporary conflicts held annually in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The WARM Foundation was founded during the "Sarajevo 2012" reunion of war reporters, organized on April 6, 2012, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Bosnia. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
The first WARM Festival opened in 2014 on the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative limits. The Sarajevo metropolitan area, including Sarajevo Canton, East Sarajevo and nearby municipalities, is home to 555,210 inhabitants. Nestled within the greater Sarajevo valley of Bosnia, it is surrounded by the Dinaric Alps and situated along the Miljacka River in the heart of the Balkans.
A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone. They were also called special correspondents.
Janine di Giovanni is an author, foreign correspondent, a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, and a current Senior Fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the Blake-Dodd nonfiction prize for her lifetime body of work.
Anthony William Vivian Loyd is an English journalist and noted war correspondent. He gained notoriety in February 2019 when he tracked down a British ISIL bride, Shamima Begum.
Milorad Dodik is a Bosnian Serb politician, currently serving as the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the collective federal head of state.
Kurt Schork was an American reporter and war correspondent. He was killed in an ambush while on an assignment for Reuters in Sierra Leone together with cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora of Spain, who worked for Associated Press Television. Two other Reuters journalists, South African cameraman Mark Chisholm and Greek photographer Yannis Behrakis were injured in the attack in which Schork died.
Haris Pašović is a Bosnian theatre director. Over the course of his career, he has also worked as a playwright, producer, choreographer, performer, and designer. He is best known for his productions of Wedekind's “Spring Awakening”. He is the artistic leader of the East West Theatre Company in Sarajevo and tenured Professor of Directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.
Tyler Portis Hicks is a photojournalist who works as a staff photographer for The New York Times. Based in Kenya, he covers foreign news for the newspaper with an emphasis on conflict and war.
Charlotte Eagar is Contributing Editor on Newsweek, an award-winning film-maker and foreign correspondent, magazine journalist, novelist and co-founder of the Syrian Trojan Women Project, a drama therapy and strategic communications project for Syrian refugees.
Yannis Behrakis was a Greek photojournalist and a Senior editor with Reuters.
Herbin Hoyos is a Colombian journalist and broadcaster who is in exile in Spain after receiving death threats from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc). He has a radio program called Las voces del secuestro which began in 1994. He was inspired by his own experience of being kidnapped by the Farc for 17 days. In 2008 he received the Premier Ondas. Exiled in October 2009 he has continued his program using the studios of Cadena SER.
Matthew Parish is a British international lawyer and scholar of international relations, based in Switzerland. He is well known for his wide-ranging views on geopolitics and the influence that international law has upon them.
Jasna Šamić is a Bosnian and French writer, author of books written both in the French and Bosnian language.
Rémy Ourdan is a French journalist, war correspondent for the newspaper Le Monde, and documentary filmmaker.
Paul Wood is a British journalist. He is the World Affairs correspondent for the BBC. He was previously the defence and Middle East correspondent.
Bosnia and Herzegovina–Turkey relations describes mutual relations between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Turkey. Bosnia and Herzegovina is a southeast European country, while Turkey is a transcontinental country with a small European part on the Balkan peninsula around Istanbul. Diplomatic relations between the two countries started on 29 August 1992. Bosnia and Herzegovina has two embassies in Ankara and Izmir and one consulate in Istanbul, while Turkey has one embassy in Sarajevo and one consulate in Mostar. The two countries enjoy very warm diplomatic relations, due to historical and cultural ties dating back to the 15th century. There is a large population of Bosniaks in Turkey and a smaller community of Turks in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
WARM is an international foundation working on the world’s contemporary conflicts, based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Bosniaks in Turkey refers to citizens of Turkey who are, or descend from, ethnic Bosniak people, originating in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sandžak and other former Yugoslav republics.
Velma Šarić is the founder and president of the Post-Conflict Research Center – a peace building organization, based in Sarajevo, which works to cultivate an environment for sustainable peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the greater Balkans region. As a trained researcher, journalist, and human rights defender, she has dedicated her career to investigative reporting and peace building in the Balkans. Velma is known for her work on behalf of marginalized groups in Bosnia-Herzegovina, promoting and encouraging respect for the rights of victims, women, and ethnic minorities.