Although the prevailing reality - which is that each of the countries of the SEE is a too small market for its own needs and they are not prepared for serious competition with the West – again connected and 'forced' those countries to primarily economic and then cultural, non-cultural (pop and mass culture) and social exchange, a better look at the countries that just went through a war, or managed to escape from it, will show that each of these countries is, to a lesser or greater extent, society of isolation, disinformation, lack of communication and fear.

Although the return or refugees and IDPs started, and the transit and exchange of people and goods is not disputed or problematic (in majority of cases), there is the prevailing feeling that the full normalization of life is still unreachable, and that the process itself lacks the true will and preparedness to act. The climate of mistrust is present in all social layers and activities, the mutual accusations (although whispered rather than said loudly) are a part of the everyday life in the villages and in the cities, in each of the states and in the region in general.

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04.11.2008 A coalition of civil society organizations to support the initiative to create a Region Commission (REKOM) to establish facts regarding war crimes and other serious human rights violations in the recent past was created at the 4th Regional Transition Justice Forum, held in Pristina, October 28-29.

22.10.2008 The Civic Vojvodina Coalition and Igman initiative praised the decision of the City Commission on Street and Public Services Names to accept their proposal and name one passage in Novi Sad after Srđan Aleksić, one of the few true heroes of the wars in former Yugoslavia.

09.11.2006 Based on the observation that in post-conflict countries the attention is usually paid to violations of human rights rather than to needs of victims, the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), a New York City based NGO committed to assisting countries where human rights are severely jeopardized, recently launched The Handbook of Reparations that has the unique approach to the question of justice.

23.07.2008 Valentina Pellizzer, owpsee executive directress reflects on the arrest of war criminal and the Hague indictee Radovan Karadžić, in her blogg marginalije.blogger.ba.