Join for a book talk with Oscar Jonsson, current Director of the Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) and associated researcher at the Swedish Defense University, on The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace (Georgetown University Press, November 2019). This book analyzes the evolution of Russian military thought and how Russia’s current thinking about war is…
Posts tagged as “War”
How do we endure the memories of war, from whose ravages neither people, animals, nor the earth itself can escape? How do we reclaim what is left after war has destroyed lives, communities, buildings, and landscapes? How do we rebuild ourselves in the wake of ignominious battlefield defeats? Laurent Gaudé (Hear Our Defeats, trans. by Alison Anderson, Europa Editions), Sinan Antoon…
[1st Floor] Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont, 2017, 90 min, Denmark/Sweden/Finland. “The Distant Barking of Dogs” is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the…
Please join us for a talk with Milan Antonijevic, Executive Director, Open Society Foundation Serbia. Milan Antonijevic has been selected as the Open Society Foundation Serbia as the new Executive Director. Milan is a lawyer by training and has devoted his career to date to human rights protection, rule of law and European Union integration. Prior to joining OSF, he was the Director…