School for Scandal: How Bribery Devalued the Balkan Diploma

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An undercover investigation into the black-market in educational qualifications reveals how grades are exchanged for money, while plagiarism and cheating go unpunished. The corruption in the universities of Bosnia and Serbia has fuelled a brain drain, driving the region’s brightest students abroad. Report by Dino Jahic. My edit for BfJE/Balkan Insight and The Christian Science Monitor.

BBC Radio Four’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’: Legacy of Bosnia’s jihadis

In the decade before al-Qaeda was deemed a direct threat to the West, a small band of jihadis came to Europe to wage war on behalf of the Bosniak government of besieged Sarajevo.

The Bosniak’s foes, the Bosnian Serbs, are keen to project their wartime cause as a precursor to the US-led “war on terror”. But the jihadis’ legacy is fading and they have few friends today on the streets of secular Sarajevo.

Bosnian Serbs sullen and defiant

In the snowy hills above Sarajevo, Bosnian Serbs feel they have been unfairly scapegoated over the Balkan conflict. Report from Pale for BBC News, March 2006