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Srebrenica 30 godina poslije genocida: Sjećanje, odgovornost i izazovi negiranja

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Emil Kerenji
je historičar u Centru Mandel za napredne studije o holokaustu pri Memorijalnom muzeju holokausta Sjedinjenih Američkih Država u Washingtonu. Njegovo akademsko područje obuhvata savremenu jevrejsku i istočnoevropsku historiju, s posebnim stručnim fokusom na historiju holokausta i Drugog svjetskog rata u Jugoslaviji i širem području Balkana. Njegova istraživanja usmjerena su na odnos genocidnog nasilja nad Jevrejima i nasilnih nacionalističkih regionalnih politika država saveznica nacističke Njemačke. Uredio je i suuređivao nekoliko svezaka serije izvorne građe Centra Mandel pod nazivom Jevrejski odgovori na progon (Jewish Responses to Persecution), te je koautor i jedan od kreatora internetskog edukativnog alata Experiencing History, zasnovanog na primarnim izvorima, namijenjenog upotrebi u univerzitetskoj nastavi u Sjevernoj Americi. Trenutno vodi projekat Holocaust Justice u okviru Centra Mandel, pilot-projekt čiji je cilj konceptualizacija i izrada baze podataka o suđenjima za holokaust u Evropi nakon Drugog svjetskog rata.
Niké Wentholt
je docentica na Univerzitetu humanističkih studija. U okviru projekta Dialogics of Justice istražuje na koji način podnosioci zahtjeva u Nizozemskoj traže priznanje za institucionalne nepravde. Sarađuje s nizozemskim društvenim partnerima u cilju istraživanja kako uvidi iz ovog projekta o priznanju i transformativnoj pravdi mogu doprinijeti poboljšanju procesa reparacije. Konkretno, istražuje, često s kolegicom istraživačicom Almom Mustafić, na koji način se nizozemska uloga u genocidu u Srebrenici pamti i na koji način se pokušava ispraviti — posebno u situacijama kada do toga ne dolazi. Doktorski studij završila je na Univerzitetu u Groningenu. Njena doktorska disertacija nosila je naziv: Overcoming History, Becoming European? Politics of the Past and EU Accession in Serbia and Bulgaria. U okviru disertacije provela je terensko istraživanje u Bugarskoj i Srbiji. Za OSCE je osmislila i provela istraživanje o (zlo)upotrebi historije od strane ekstremno desničarskih i džihadističkih grupa u Srbiji. Stekla je zvanje magistra nauka iz ruskih i istočnoevropskih studija na Univerzitetu u Oxfordu, a osnovni studij historije završila je na Univerzitetu u Groningenu.
Ben Kiernan
je doktorirao na Univerzitetu Monash u Australiji 1983. godine. Autor je knjige Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (Krv i zemlja: Svjetska historija genocida i istrebljenja od Sparte do Darfura, 2007), koja je 2008. godine osvojila zlatnu medalju za najbolji historijski rad koju dodjeljuje Udruženje nezavisnih izdavača, kao i Nagradu za najbolju knjigu u periodu 2007-2008. godine koju dodjeljuje Američko udruženje za njemačke studije (U.S. German Studies Association) u čast Sybil Halpern Milton, za djelo koje se bavi nacističkom Njemačkom i holokaustom u najširem kontekstu, pokrivajući oblasti historije, političkih nauka, i drugih društvenih nauka, književnosti, umjetnosti i fotografije. Kiernanov rad je predstavljen u zbornicima Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (Pedeset ključnih mislilaca o holokaustu i genocidu, 2011) i Southeast Asian History: Essential Readings (Historija jugoistočne Azije: osnovna čitanja, 2006, 2013). Njegove nagrade uključuju Nagradu za kritičke azijske studije (Critical Asian Studies Prize) za 2002. godinu, kao i počasno priznanje u kategoriji „One of a Kind“ na dodjeli Nagrada kanadskog nacionalnog časopisa za njegov koautorski članak iz 2006. godine Bombs over Cambodia (Bombe nad Kambodžom). Njegova najnovija publikacija je The Cambridge World History of Genocide (2023), čiji je glavni urednik.
Martin Shaw
je historijski sociolog koji je objavio veliki broj radova o genocidu, uključujući knjige War and Genocide (Rat i genocid, 2003), What is Genocide? (Šta je genocid?, 2007/2015) i Genocide and International Relations (Genocid i međunarodni odnosi, 2013), kao i članke o Ukrajini (2023) i Gazi (2024) objavljene u Journal of Genocide Research. Nedavno je završio knjigu The New Age of Genocide: Political and Intellectual Challenges after Gaza (Nova era genocida: Politički i intelektualni izazovi nakon Gaze), koja će biti objavljena kod izdavača Agenda u oktobru 2025. godine. Rasprave o Bosni i Hercegovini prisutne su u svim njegovim knjigama o genocidu, a uključuju i kritičke ocjene presude Međunarodnog suda pravde iz 2007. godine. Godine 2023. primio je Nagradu za životno djelo od Međunarodne mreže istraživača genocida (International Network of Genocide Scholars). Trenutno je profesor istraživač na Institutu za međunarodne studije u Barseloni (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals – IBEI) i profesor emeritus međunarodnih odnosa i politike na Univerzitetu u Sussexu. Osim rada na temi genocida, objavio je značajne radove o ratu, antinuklearnom pokretu i ulozi rasizma u krajnje desničarskoj politici.
Hariz Halilovich
je profesor globalnih studija na Univerzitetu RMIT u Melbourneu i međunarodno priznat stručnjak za genocid. Njegova istraživanja fokusirana su na genocid, prisilno raseljavanje, traume povezane s ratom, politiku sjećanja i identitete dijaspore, s posebnim naglaskom na pristupe zasnovane na zajednici i pristupe usmjerene na preživjele. Autor je knjiga Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Translocal Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities (Berghahn Books, 2013), koja je stekla međunarodno priznanje, i Writing After Srebrenica (Buybook, 2017). Njegov naučni rad temelji se na dugogodišnjoj saradnji sa zajednicama preživjelih i kulturnim institucijama širom Evrope, Sjedinjenih Američkih Država i Australije. Redovno sudjeluje u javnim i akademskim debatama o genocidu, pravdi sjećanja i ljudskim pravima, te je posvećen korištenju istraživanja kao alata za zagovaranje, obrazovanje i društvene promjene. Kroz svoj rad, iznosi na vidjelo životna iskustva onih pogođenih genocidom i raseljavanjem, naglašavajući ključnu ulogu sjećanja i pripovijedanja u procesima ozdravljenja, pravde i rekonstrukcije identiteta.
David J. Simon
je viši predavač i prodekan za postdiplomsko obrazovanje na Jackson School of Global Affairs pri Univerzitetu Yale. Također, obnaša dužnost direktora Programa za studije genocida i inicijative Masovni zločini u digitalnom dobu na Yaleu. Njegova istraživanja fokusiraju se na prevenciju zločina i politiku oporavka od masovnih zločina. Ko-urednik knjiga Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age: Memorialization Unmoored (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2020, zajedno s Eve M. Zucker) i The Handbook of Genocide Studies (Edward Elgar, 2023, zajedno s Leorom Kahn). Sa dr. Kahn osmislio je izložbu pod nazivom Speaking Up: Confronting Hate Speech, koja je od 2022. godine predstavljena u više muzeja. Član je više odbora, uključujući Reckoning Project, bosanskohercegovački Post-Conflict Research Center i Connecticut Voices of Hope. Diplomirao je na Univerzitetu Princeton, a doktorirao politologiju na Univerzitetu Kalifornija, Los Anđeles.
Pınar Akarçay
je diplomirala na Odsjeku za politologiju i javnu upravu 2006. godine, magistrirala na istom odsjeku 2009. godine, te nastavila doktorske studije na Univerzitetu u Istanbulu, Odsjek za politologiju i javnu upravu, i Univerzitetu u Lundu, Odsjek za politologiju u Švedskoj, u periodu od 2010. do 2016. godine. Godine 2016. radila je kao gostujuća istraživačica u Stockholmu, Švedska, na poziv Stockholm-SALAR (Švedskog udruženja lokalnih vlasti i regija), koje sarađuje s Evropskom unijom i Švedskom vladom. Njen postdoktorski istraživački projekat prihvaćen je na Univerzitetu u Uppsali, Švedska, 2017. godine, a Dr. Akarçay je bila pozvana na Univerzitet u Uppsali na dvogodišnje postdoktorsko istraživanje u periodu od 2018. do 2020. godine, koje je završila u januaru 2020. godine. Dr. Akarçay koja je trenutno članica Instituta za genocid i zločine protiv čovječnosti na Univerzitetu u Istanbulu, voditeljica je Odsjeka za studije genocida. Predaje kolegije o teorijama genocida i historiji kolonijalizma, te provodi naučna istraživanja u ovoj oblasti.
Rosa Aloisi
je vanredna profesorica i šefica Odsjeka za politologiju na Univerzitetu Trinity u San Antoniju, Teksas, gdje predaje međunarodnu politiku, međunarodno pravo i ljudska prava. Dr. Aloisi posjeduje zvanje doktora prava (J.D.) sa Univerziteta u Mesini, Italija, napredni certifikat iz međunarodne krivične saradnje sa Univerziteta u Cataniji, Italija, te doktorat sa Univerziteta North Texas. Njena istraživanja fokusiraju se na rad međunarodnih krivičnih tribunala, institucija za ljudska prava i razvoj međunarodnog krivičnog prava. Osim što se fokusira na međunarodno pravo, dr. Aloisi provodi istraživanja o faktorima koji oblikuju komemoraciju međunarodnih zločina, kao i političke i društvene narative o međunarodnim migracijama. Njeni naučni radovi objavljeni su u časopisima Judicature, International Criminal Law Review i Journal of Conflict Resolution. Objavila je knjigu Judgment Day – Judicial Decision Making at the International Tribunals kod izdavačke kuće Cambridge University Press, a trenutno radi na rukopisu svoje druge knjige o memorijalizaciji patnje.
Marko Attila Hoare
je vanredni profesor i voditelj istraživanja na Odsjeku za politologiju i međunarodne odnose na Univerzitetu SSST (Sarajevo School of Science and Technology). Rođen je u Londonu, diplomirao je historiju, sa pohvalama, na Univerzitetu Cambridge 1994. godine, te doktorirao historiju na Yale Univerzitetu 2000. godine. Autor je četiri objavljene knjige o historiji Bosne i Hercegovine: How Bosnia Armed (Saqi Books, London, 2004); Genocide and Resistance in Hitler’s Bosnia - The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006), koja je osvojila nagradu British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Monograph Competition 2004; zatim The History of Bosnia - From the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Saqi, London, 2007); i The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War - A History (Hurst, London, 2013). Njegovi radovi objavljivani su u izdanjima poput The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Standpoint, Prospect, Open Democracy, New Lines Magazine, Left Foot Forward i The American Conservative. Učestvovao je u programima organiziranim od strane Holocaust Memorial Day Trust i Sky History Channel, te je bio gost na brojnim televizijskim i radijskim stanicama, uključujući BBC TV i Sky News. Njegova najnovija knjiga je Serbia: A Modern History (Hurst, London, 2024).
A. Dirk Moses
je profesor međunarodnih odnosa na City Collegeu u New Yorku, nosilac katedre Anne i Bernarda Spitzera. Autor je i urednik knjiga o genocidu i studijama sjećanja. Njegove najnovije antologije uključuju The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials (Muzej Holokausta i ljudska prava: Transnacionalne perspektive savremenih memorijala, 2025), The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Victims Perpetrators Justice and the Question of Genocide (Ruska invazija na Ukrajinu: Žrtve, počinioci, pravda i pitanje genocida, 2024) i Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory (Patriotska historija i (re)nacionalizacija sjećanja, 2023). Autor je knjige The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (Problemi genocida: Stalna sigurnost i jezik transgresije, 2021) i urednik časopisa Journal of Genocide Research. Piše za širu publiku u časopisima The Boston Review, Noema Magazine i Lawfare.
Norman M. Naimark
je diplomirao, magistrirao i doktorirao (1972) na Univerzitetu Stanford. Petnaest godina radio je kao profesor historije na Univerzitetu u Bostonu i kao istraživački saradnik u Istraživačkom centru za ruske studije na Harvardu, prije nego što se 1988. vratio na Stanford. Trenutno je profesor emeritus i nosilac katedre Robert i Florence McDonnell za istočnoevropske studije, istaknuti gostujući istraživač pri Hoover institutu, te počasni gostujući saradnik na Freeman-Spogli Institutu za međunarodne studije. Među brojnim upravljačkim funkcijama na Stanfordu, Naimark je obnašao dužnost šefa Odsjeka za historiju, Burke Family direktora programa Bing Overseas Studies i Fisher Family direktora Global Studies Divizije. Njegove najnovije knjige su Genocide: A World History (Genocid: Svjetska historija, Oxford, 2017) i Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Struggle for Sovereignty (Staljin i sudbina Evrope: Borba za suverenitet, Harvard, 2019). Ko-urednik je i saradnik trećeg toma knjige The Cambridge World History of Genocide (Kembridška svjetska historija genocida, Cambridge, 2023).
Kim Sadique
je vanredna profesorica u oblasti prevencije genocida i obrazovanja na Univerzitetu De Montfort (DMU) u Leicesteru, Velika Britanija. Njena doktorska teza pod nazivom Learning from Genocide: A narrative study of guiding experiences at sites of mass atrocities in Poland and Bosnia uspostavila je pedagoški model za pružanje obrazovanja o genocidu koji vodi ka globalnom, aktivnom građanstvu. Njen nedavni rad rezultirao je razvojem otvorene virtualne platforme Bosnia Room koja istražuje bosanski genocid, a koja je predstavljena na web stranici Ministarstva za ljudska prava i izbjeglice Bosne i Hercegovine. Ova virtualna platforma podržana je pedagoški utemeljenim priručnikom za nastavnike pod nazivom Antiracist Education: A Pedagogy for Social Change using a virtual Bosnian Genocide platform (Antirasističko obrazovanje: Pedagogija za društvene promjene koristeći virtualnu platformu bosanskog genocida). Kim je DMU UNSDG stipendistica, a njen rad direktno podržava Cilj održivog razvoja 16 (SDG16) - Mir, pravda i snažne institucije. Kim je predsjedavajuća Akademskog odbora organizacije Remembering Srebrenica UK i pokroviteljica Mreže Bosne i Hercegovine u Velikoj Britaniji (Bosnia and Herzegovina UK Network). Također, članica je Višestranačke parlamentarne grupe za prevenciju genocida i zločina protiv čovječnosti, te Međunarodne asocijacije istraživača genocida. Kao naučnica-aktivistica, Kim je posvećena isticanju glasova preživjelih u obrazovanju o genocidu.
Henry Theriault
je doktor nauka, zamjenik prorektora na Državnom univerzitetu Worcester u Sjedinjenim Američkim Državama. Na Odsjeku za filozofiju je predavao od 1998. do 2017. godine. Bio je koordinator Centra za ljudska prava Državnog univerziteta Worcester od 1999. do 2007. godine. Sa iskustvom u društvenoj, političkoj i kontinentalnoj filozofiji, Theriault istražuje negiranje genocida, prevenciju genocida, odnose između žrtava i počinilaca nakon genocida, reparacije, te masovno nasilje nad ženama i djevojčicama. Predavao je širom svijeta i objavio brojne članke u časopisima i poglavlja u knjigama. Zajedno sa Samuelom Tottenom koautor je knjige The United Nations Genocide Convention: An Introduction (University of Toronto Press, 2019), te zajedno sa Chunhui Peng ko-urednik knjige Aftermath of Mass Violence: A Comprehensive Approach through Theory and Case Studies (Bloomsbury, uskoro). Theriaultovi radovi objavljivani su na engleskom, španskom, armenskom, turskom i drugim jezicima. Theriault je bio predsjednik Međunarodne asocijacije istraživača genocida (International Association of Genocide Scholars) u dva mandata, od 2017. do 2019. i od 2019. do 2021. godine. Suosnivač i ko-urednik časopisa Genocide Studies International je od 2012. godine, a od 2007. do 2012. ko-urednik časopisa Genocide Studies and Prevention. Trenutno je potpredsjednik izvršnog odbora uprave Nacionalnog udruženja za armenske studije i istraživanja (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research) i član Armenskog društva stipendista (Armenian Society of Fellows).
Samuel Totten
predavao je na Univerzitetu Arkansas u Fayettevilleu od 1987. do 2012. godine. Godine 2008. bio je Fulbrightov stipendista u Centru za upravljanje sukobima pri Nacionalnom univerzitetu Ruande. Tokom akademske 2009-2010. godine obnašao je počasnu funkciju Ida King Distinguished Visiting Fellow na master programu iz holokausta i genocida na Richard Stockton koledžu u New Jerseyju, a 2018. godine bio je gostujući profesor po pozivu rektora, kada je držao predavanja o genocidu. Tokom ljeta 2004. godine bio je jedan od 24 istražitelja u okviru projekta Dokumentacija zločina Ministarstva vanjskih poslova SAD (Atrocities Documentation Project - ADP), intervjuirajući izbjeglice iz Darfura smještene u kampovima na granici Čada i Sudana. Od 2006. do 2017. godine proveo je terenska istraživanja u ratom pogođenim Nubijskim planinama u Sudanu. Trenutno vodi istraživanja u Ukrajini. Tačnije, provodi vrlo duge i detaljne intervjue sa civilima iz Ukrajine koji su izbjegli sukobe u istočnoj Ukrajini. Autor je pet knjiga o genocidu, a najnovija, u koautorstvu sa Henryjem Theriaultom, je The United Nations Genocide Convention: An Introduction (University of Toronto Press, 2020). Trenutno radi na knjizi o ruskoj invaziji na Ukrajinu i rusko-ukrajinskom ratu.
Rafiki Ubaldo
je doktorand Škole za mir i analizu sukoba „Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter“ i stipendista predsjednika Univerziteta George Mason. Prije doktorskog studija u okviru Škole „Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter“, radio je u sektoru profesionalnih službi na Univerzitetu u Stokholmu i Univerzitetu u Lundu, Švedska. Završio je osnovne studije iz političkih nauka na Univerzitetu u Stokholmu, a magistrirao je na programu Holokaust i genocid na Univerzitetu u Upsali, Švedska. Iskusan je novinar koji je radio u Istočnoj Africi i Evropi. Portfolio njegovih fotografija dostupan je na: www.templesofmemory.org. Ko-urednik je dvije knjige i nekoliko poglavlja u knjigama. Njegova kratka priča „The Bullet“ objavljena je u časopisu Two Third North, te prevedena i objavljena na poljskom, portugalskom, finskom i švedskom jeziku. Bio je član Izvršnog odbora Međunarodne asocijacije istraživača genocida (International Association of Genocide Scholars - IAGS) i Uredničkog odbora časopisa Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal. U Ruandi je zagovarao proučavanje genocida i njegove prevencije, te je počašćen što je bio dio tima koji je kreirao master program Genocid i prevencija u Centru za upravljanje sukobima Univerziteta u Ruandi. Godine 2025. Rafiki Ubaldo imenovan je za direktora za odnose s javnošću i zajednicu časopisa Peace Chronicle, glasila Udruženja za studije mira i pravde (Peace and Justice Studies Association - PJSA).
Onur Uraz
je docent međunarodnog javnog prava na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta Hacettepe. Doktorirao je međunarodno pravo na Univerzitetu u Southamptonu, a magistrirao na Univerzitetu u Glasgowu. Njegova istraživanja fokusiraju se na međunarodno krivično pravo, posebno na zakone protiv genocida, međunarodne sudove i tribunale, te na teoriju međunarodnog prava. Trenutno je predsjedavajući Komiteta za rezolucije Međunarodne asocijacije istraživača genocida (International Association of Genocide Scholars - IAGS) i gostujući istraživač u Centru za evroazijske studije (AVİM). Također, bio je savjetnik Ministarstva vanjskih poslova Turske u oblastima svoje ekspertize. Autor je knjige Classifying Genocide in International Law: The Substantiality Requirement (Routledge, 2022).
Benjamin Valentino
je profesor na Odsjeku za državnu upravu i prodekan za društvene nauke na Dartmouth koledžu. Njegova istraživanja fokusirana su na uzroke, posljedice i prevenciju nasilnih sukoba. Suosnivač je Projekta ranog upozoravanja (Early Warning Project), koji koristi najsavremenije metode za procjenu rizika od masovnih zločina u zemljama širom svijeta. Na Dartmouthu predaje kurseve o međunarodnim odnosima, međunarodnoj sigurnosti, američkoj vanjskoj politici, te o uzrocima i prevenciji genocida. Profesor Valentino je autor knjige Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century, koja je dobila Edgar S. Furniss nagradu za izuzetan doprinos proučavanju nacionalne i međunarodne sigurnosti. Njegovi radovi objavljivani su u medijima i časopisima poput The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The American Political Science Review, Security Studies, International Organization, Public Opinion Quarterly, World Politics i The Journal of Politics. Diplomirao je političke nauke na Univerzitetu Stanford i doktorirao također političke nauke na Tehnološkom institutu u Massachusettsu.
Eric Ndushabandi
je direktor Instituta za istraživanje i dijalog za mir (Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace – IRDP), nezavisnog think tanka i organizacije za izgradnju mira koja djeluje u tri ključna područja: izgradnja mira i obrazovanje za mir, upravljanje i društveno-ekonomski razvoj. Također predaje političke nauke na Univerzitetu u Ruandi. Danas se IRDP bavi opsežnim radom na polju društvenog ozdravljenja i socijalne kohezije kroz dijalog zajednice i omladinske klubove. Istraživanja Erica Ndushabandija obuhvataju politiku sjećanja u postkonfliktnim društvima, procese demokratizacije, analizu javnih politika, obnovu (perspektive izgradnje države i nacije) i transformaciju sukoba. Saradnik je na projektu AHRC GCRF Network Plus Changing the Story.
Edina Bećirević
je profesorica sigurnosnih studija na Fakultetu za kriminalistiku, kriminologiju i sigurnosne studije. Objavila je brojne radove o tranzicionoj pravdi, genocidu i nasilnom ekstremizmu, a autorica je knjiga Genocide on the Drina River (Yale University Press, 2014) i Salafism vs. Moderate Islam (Atlantic Initiative, 2016). Među njenim najnovijim radovima ističe se poglavlje "Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992–1995", koje je dio trećeg toma edicije The Cambridge World History of Genocide (Cambridge University Press, 2023), urednički potpisane od strane Kiernana, Lowera, Naimarka i Strausa. Posljednjih godina njen istraživački fokus usmjeren je na maligni strani utjecaj i porast autoritarizma u jugoistočnoj Evropi. Njena nova knjiga, Putinizam na Zapadnom Balkanu, izlazi na jesen 2025. Studirala je na Univerzitetu u Sarajevu, London School of Economics and Political Science te Central European University. Također je bila postdoktorska Fulbright stipendistica na Univerzitetu Yale.
Mujo Begić
rođen 1968. godine, u Orašcu, općina Bihać. Oženjen i otac dvoje djece. Studirao u Beogradu i Sarajevu a doktorirao na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta u Bihaću. Trenutno zaposlen u Institutu za nestale osobe BiH na mjestu šefa ureda za nestale za područje Bosanske krajine. Angažovan je kao profesor na Univerzitetu u Bihaću. Autor je nekoliko zapaženih izložbi fotografija. U svom naučnom radu učestvovao na više desetina konferencija, skupova, okruglih stolova. Autor je 15 knjiga. Recenzent četiri knjige. U svom dosadašnjem radu više puta je nagrađivan. Proglašen je počasnim građaninom općine Ključ i dobitnik najvećeg priznanja općine Bihać „Povelja 26. februar“.
Dr. Muamer Džananović
direktor je Instituta za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu. Diplomirao je, magistrirao i doktorirao iz oblasti filozofije, sociologije i sociologije genocida. Autor je i koautor više naučnih knjiga, publikacija i izvještaja koji se bave historijom Bosne i Hercegovine, ratnim zločinima, genocidom, negiranjem zločina i politikom revizionizma. Aktivno je učestvovao u realizaciji brojnih naučnih projekata te bio član organizacionih i naučnih odbora domaćih i međunarodnih konferencija. Do sada je recenzirao i uredio niz naučnih izdanja, a dao je i značajan doprinos izradi dokumentarnih filmova koji se temelje na istraživanjima Instituta. Posebno se ističe njegovo zalaganje na čelu Instituta, gdje je u kratkom vremenu inicirao niz važnih naučnih aktivnosti i međunarodnih saradnji, uključujući skupove organizirane s najprestižnijim svjetskim univerzitetima. Među ključnim inicijativama je i osnivanje Godišnjaka Instituta, u čijem uredništvu učestvuju vodeći svjetski teoretičari genocida. Također je izabran u zvanje docenta za užu naučnu oblast sociologije na Filozofskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Tuzli. Član je više domaćih i međunarodnih naučnih asocijacija i udruženja.
Jasmin Medić
rođen je 19. oktobra 1986. godine u Prijedoru. Diplomirao, magistrirao i doktorirao je na Odsjeku za historiju Filozofskog fakulteta Univerziteta u Sarajevu.Autor je jedne, koautor dvije naučne monografije i jedne studije te koautor Priručnika za predmet Historija za osnovne i srednje škole u Kantonu Sarajevu. Pored toga autor je i 22 naučna i stručna članka kao i devet prikaza objavljenih u indeksiranim časopisima u Bosni i Hercegovini, Njemačkoj, Hrvatskoj i Crnoj Gori iz oblasti moderne i savremene historije, genocida, zločinima protiv čovječnosti i viktimologije. Učesnik je i na 40 međunarodnih naučnih konferencija i drugih naučnih skupova te Okruglih stolova u Bosni i Hercegovini i inostranstvu. Trenutno je u zvanju višeg naučnog saradnika za modernu historiju u Institutu za historiju Univerziteta u Sarajevu i profesor na predmetima Historija ratova i Vojna historija na Fakultetu političkih nauka Univerziteta u Sarajevu.
Hasan Nuhanović
(Zvornik, 1968) aprila 1992. godine bio student četvrte godine Mašinskog fakulteta u Sarajevu. Preživio je genocid u Srebrenici u kojem su mu ubijeni otac, majka i brat. Objavio je brojne članke na temu genocida u Srebrenici, sa posebnim fokusom na ulogu međunarodne zajednice u ovim događajima. 2005. godine objavio je knjigu Pod zastavom UN – međunarodna zajednica i genocid u Srebrenici. 2012. Godine u izdanju Media centra objavio je knjigu Zbijeg, dokumentarnu hronologiju njegove porodice tokom 1992. i 1993. godine od Vlasenice, preko Stoborana, Žepe do Srebrenice. Obje knjige prevedene su na engleski jezik. Doktorirao je 2022 godine. Trenutno radi za Memorijalni centar Srebrenica – Potočari kao savjetnik.
Edin Omerčić
je rođen 1981. godine u Puli. Osnovnu i srednju školu je završio u Rovinju. Filozofski fakultet završio je u Sarajevu 2007. godine. Od 2008. godine radi na Institutu za historiju u Sarajevu. Magistarski rad je odbranio 2013. godine na Filozofskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Sarajevu. Član je Udruženja za modernu historiju iz Sarajeva od osnivanja , sekretar je časopisa „Historia Moderna Bosna&Herzegovina“. Od 2017. do 2019. godine je bio član uredništva časopisa za književnost i društvena pitanja Behar, te član uredništva časopisa Journal, dvomjesečnika Kulturnog društva Bošnjaka Hrvatske ''Preporod'' iz Zagreba. Doktorirao je na Filozofskom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu 2023. godine.
Emir Suljagić
rođen je 1975. godine u Ljuboviji u Srbiji, a odrastao u Bratuncu i Srebrenici. Završio je Fakultet političkih nauka u Sarajevu, a doktorirao na Univerzitetu u Hamburgu, Njemačka. U Sarajevu živi sa suprugom Aidom Bjelopoljak. Bio je član Socijaldemokratske partije BiH (SDPBiH) od 2009. do početka 2012., a priključio se Demokratskoj fronti (DF) sredinom 2014. u kojoj se zadržao godinu dana. Od 2016. godine član je Građanskog saveza u kojem obnaša funkciju predsjednika Političkog savjeta.Od 1993. do 1995. radio je kao prevodilac u misiji Ujedinjenih nacija u Srebrenici. Potom deset godina, od 1996. do 2006, radi kao novinar u sarajevskom sedmičniku „Dani“. Pet mjeseci tokom 2006. je bio savjetnik u kabinetu tadašnjeg predsjedavajućeg Vijeća ministara BiH Adnana Terzića. Od 2009. do 2011. savjetnik je gradonačelnika Sarajeva Alije Behmena, a potom je imenovan na mjesto ministra obrazovanja i nauke u Vladi Kantona Sarajevo. Ostavku na ovu poziciju podnosi u januaru 2012. godine. Od sredine 2012. uključen je u inicijativu i koaliciju nevladinih organizacija „Prvi mart“, koji napušta u julu 2014. godine. Tokom 2019. godine imenovan je za v.d. direktora, a potom i za direktora Memorijalnog centra Srebrenica.
Sead Turčalo
vanredni je profesor na Odsjeku za sigurnosne i mirovne studije. Od 2019. godine obavlja dužnost dekana Fakulteta političkih nauka Univerziteta u Sarajevu. Rođen je 1978. godine u Sarajevu. Doktorsku disertaciju “Realistička teorija međunarodnih odnosa u interpretaciji kritičke geopolitike” odbranio je 16. juna 2014. godine na Fakultetu političkih nauka Univerziteta u Sarajevu. Na prvom i drugom ciklusu studija Odsjeka za sigurnosne i mirovne studije i Odsjeka za politologiju predaje na kolegijima Geopolitika, Međunarodna sigurnost te Energetska sigurnost i Upravljanje konfliktima u međunarodnim odnosima. Na interdisciplinarnom doktorskom studiju Fakulteta političkih nauka Univerziteta u Sarajevu predavač je na kolegiju Geopolitičke studije suvremenog svijeta. Na doktorskom studiju “Global studies” Centra za interdisciplinarne postdiplomske studije Univerziteta u Sarajevu predaje kolegij Geopolitics and Global Order. Gostujuća predavanja držao je na Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po Dijon, Univerzitetu Vytautas Magnus u Kaunasu i International Institute of Social Studies u Hagu. Glavni je istraživač na Horizon2020 projektu “PAVE”. Objavio je pet knjiga i četiri studije te tridesetak radova u referentnim časopisima i zbornicima. Posljednje knjige koje je objavio su: “Popularna geopolitika” (2021) u izdanju Fakulteta političkih znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu i “Presretnuti razgovori: pripreme za rat” (2022) u izdanju Fakulteta političkih nauka Univerziteta u Sarajevu i Memorijalnog centra Srebrenica. Bio je član izvršnog uredništva časopisa “Godišnjak Fakulteta političkih nauka”. Od 2012. do 2015. godine uređivao je časopis “Sarajevski žurnal za društvena pitanja” koji izdaje Fakultet političkih nauka UNSA. Izvršni je urednik bilingvalnog referentnog stručnog časopisa “Demokracija i sigurnost u Jugoistočnoj Evropi” koji izdaje nevladina organizacija “Atlantska inicijativa” iz Sarajeva. Član je uredništva časopisā “Journal of Regional Security” i “European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities”.
Enis Omerovic
Dekan Pravnog fakulteta Univerziteta u Zenici. Vanredni profesor na Katedri za državno i međunarodno javno pravo na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta u Zenici i na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta u Tuzli. Docent međunarodnog krivičnog prava. Prodekan za naučno-istraživački rad na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta u Zenici (2018.-2021.). Predsjednik Vijeća doktorskog studija Pravnog fakulteta Univerziteta u Zenici (2024.-2025.) i član Upravnog odbora Univerziteta u Zenici (2023.-2025.). Vanredni profesor na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta Prince Sultan u Rijadu, Saudijska Arabija, od 2021. do 2023. Gostujući profesor na Univerzitetu u Tuzli, Univerzitetu Džemal Bijedić u Mostaru i Univerzitetu u Sarajevu, Fakultetu političkih nauka. Erasmus profesor na Univerzitetu u Wroclawu, Poljska, 2021. Diploma magistra pravnih nauka Univerziteta u Glasgowu (UK). (Post)doktorski kolokvij Univerziteta u Saarlandu (Europa Institut, Njemačka). Student Akademije međunarodnog prava u Hagu (Nizozemska). Jedan od voditelja kolegija "Crime prevention through criminal law and security studies" Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu u Međusveučilišnom centru u Dubrovniku. Član Odbora za pravne nauke Akademije nauka i umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine. Suurednik Springer Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL). Član naučnog odbora Američkog godišnjaka za međunarodno pravo. Član uređivačkog odbora Univerziteta u Nišu Facta Universitatis: Law & Politics. Suurednik časopisa Anali Pravnog fakulteta Univerziteta u Zenici. Član redakcije Godišnjaka Instituta za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu. Član uređivačkoga kolegija Journal of Conflict, Genocide and Post-Conflict Studies (JCGC). Član Europskog društva za međunarodno pravo (ESIL).
Ehlimana Memišević
doktorica nauka, vanredna je profesorica na Odsjeku za pravnu historiju i komparativno pravo Pravnog fakulteta Univerziteta u Sarajevu. Diplomirala je, magistrirala i doktorirala pravo na Univerzitetu u Sarajevu. Njena glavna istraživačka područja uključuju pravnu historiju i studije genocida.
Zilha Mastalić Košuta
diplomirala je na Odsjeku za historiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Sarajevu. Na istom Fakultetu magistrirala je i doktorirala na studijskoj grupi “Historija Bosne i Hercegovine u 19. i 20. stoljeću” te stekla zvanje doktora historijskih nauka. Područje njenog istraživanja je savremena historija, posebno politička i vojna historija kao i ratni zločini na području Bosne i Hercegovine i šire tokom Drugog svjetskog rata i u periodu 1992-1995. Od 2005. godine radi na Univerzitetu u Sarajevu - Institut za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava, u naučnom sektoru, trenutno na poziciji višeg naučnog saradnika. Do sada je objavila šest autorskih i koautorskih knjiga i više od 30 naučnih i stručnih radova. Predsjedavajuća je Savjeta Vijeća za historiju i promociju očuvanja kulturno-historijskog i prirodnog naslijeđa, član Vijeća kongresa bošnjačkih intelektualaca (VKBI), član Komisije Kantona Sarajevo za obilježavanje, čuvanje i njegovanje historijskih događaja i ličnosti, član svjetskih organizacija istraživača genocida, i dr.
Lada Sadiković
je diplomirala, magistrirala i doktorirala na Pravnom fakultetu Univerziteta u Sarajevu. Zaposlena je na Univerzitetu u Sarajevu - FKKSS, gdje radi kao redovna profesorica na predmetu Ustavno pravo. Pored brojnih radova, autorica je sedam knjiga i to: Vanredno stanje i ljudska prava (2003); Država u evropskom poretku (2005); Ljudska prava (2006); Ustav Bosne i Hercegovine i Evropska konvencija za zaštitu ljudskih prava i osnovnih sloboda (2010); Ustav Bosne i Hercegovine, sigurnost i ljudska prava (2012); Venecijanska komisija o Ustavu Bosne i Hercegovine, (2016) i Ogledi o Ustavu Bosne i Hercegovine (2016). Dobitnica je Plakete za razvoj koncepta ljudskih prava i sloboda i sigurnosti (Skoplje, 2016).
Izet Šabotić
redovni je profesor na Filozofskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Tuzli na Odsjeku za historiju, na užoj naučnoj oblasti „Novi vijek“. Autor je i koautor 12 knjiga i šest udžbenika, te više od 320 naučnih i stručnih radova iz oblasti historije i arhivistike, objavljenih u više domaćih i stranih časopisa. Urednik i recezent je više od 80 knjiga iz oblasti historije i arhivistike. Učestvovao je na brojnim naučnim i stručnim međunarodnim skupovima u Bosni i Hercegovini i inozemstvu. Bio je dugogodišnji glavni i odgovorni urednik časopisa: Arhivska praksa i Glasnik arhiva i Arhivističkog udruženja Bosne i Hecegovine, te član redakcija nekoliko međunarodnih i domaćih časopisa i drugih publikacija. Trenutno je izvršni direktor Centra za istraživanje moderne i savremene historije Tuzla, te urednik referentnog naučnog časopoisa Historijski pogledi. Član je više stručnih i naučnih komisija svih nivoa iz oblasti historije i arhivistike u Bosni i Hercegovini i zemljama okruženja. Trenutno je angažovan na realizaciji nekoliko naučnih međunarodnih projekta.
Elvedin Mulagić
rođen je 1971. godine u Mokrinama, općina Hadžići. Na Fakultetu političkih nauka u Sarajevu stekao je 2023. godine zvanje doktora nauka. Profesionalno je angažovan u Oružanim snagama Bosne i Hercegovine u činu brigadira. Tokom 2013. i 2014. godine učestvovao je kao pripadnik Oružanih snaga Bosne i Hercegovine u mirovnoj misiji UN-a u DR Kongo kao vojni posmatrač. Više puta je kroz svoju vojnu karijeru učestvovao na raznim međunarodnim konferencijama i seminarima iz domene odbrane i sigurnosti, kako u zemlji tako i u inostranstvu. Autor je knjige Negiranje genocida nad Bošnjacima, objavljene 2015. godine od strane Instituta za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerzieta u Sarajevu i koautor knjige Hadžići tokom agresije na Republiku Bosnu i Hercegovinu 1992-1995 (Zilha Mastalić Košuta, Vahid Alađuz i Elvedin Mulagić), Instituta za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu i Općine Hadžići 2022. godine.Autor je sljedećih naučnih radova: „Osvrt na knjigu Dobrice Ćosića - Negiranje genocida nad Bošnjacima i nastavak kontinuiranog rada na oživotvorenju projekta 'Velika Srbija'“ u: Ćosićev rat, Smail Čekić (ur.), Institut za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu, Sarajevo, 2012. „Negiranje genocida nad Tutsima i genocida nad Bošnjacima – komparativni prikaz“ u: Srebrenica 1995-2015: Evolucija nasljeđa i dugoročnih posljedica genocida, Fikret Bečirović i Džananović Muamer (ur.), Institut za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu, Sarajevo, 2016. „Primjena UN doktrine 'Odgovornost za pružanje zaštite' i zločini nad Rohinja narodom u Mijanmaru“, Context, br. 8.2, Centar za napredne studije, Sarajevo, 2021.
Merisa Karović-Babić
rođena je 2. februara 1983. u Sarajevu, gdje je završila osnovnu i srednju školu, te studij historije na Filozofskom fakultetu odbranivši diplomski rad 2006. godine. Tada je upisala i postdiplomski studij na grupi Historija Bosne i Hercegovine u 19. i 20. stoljeću, koji je uspješno završila 2013. odbranom magistarskog rada Masovna ubistva civila u Sarajevu za vrijeme opsade 1992‒1995. Doktorsku disertaciju pod nazivom Sigurne zone Ujedinjenih nacija u Bosni i Hercegovini 1993‒1995: Bihać i Goražde – komparativna analiza odbranila je 2019. godine na Filozofskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Sarajevu. Magistarski i doktorski rad odbranjen je pod mentorstvom prof. dr. Husnije Kamberovića. U zvanju višeg naučnog saradnika zaposlena je u Institutu za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu. Do sada je objavila dvije autorske knjige, jednu knjigu u koautorstvu, 16 naučnih radova, više prikaza knjiga, eseja, te bila je redaktor i urednik nekoliko knjiga. Također, autorica je priručnika za osnovne i srednje škole „Edukativni materijali o obilježavanju godišnjica masovnog stradanja građana Sarajeva 1992-1995“. Članica je Udruženja za modernu historiju (UMHIS).
Sarina Bakić
je vanredna profesorica na Fakultetu političkih nauka Univerziteta u Sarajevu na Odsjeku Sociologija i rukovoditeljica Odsjeka Sociologija. Rođena je 1973. godine u Sarajevu. Autorica je knjige Kontroverze recepcije kulture, te koautorica knjiga Nasilje nad ženama – diskursi, perspektive, lekcije iz BiH povijesti, Razumijevanje društva i Mirovni potencijal religija i međureligijski dijalog kao sredstvo za unapređenje političkog dijaloga u Bosni i Hercegovini. Njeno uže naučno polje djelovanja jeste sociologija kulture i umjetnosti, istražuje različite fenomene masovne kulture, estetike te suodnose umjetnosti i politike, bavi se kritičkom kulturom sjećanja, različitim segmentima interkulturalnog dijaloga i kulturne diplomatije. Sarina Bakić je autorica više desetina naučnih i stručnih radova u recentnim domaćim i stranim časopisima. Učestvovala je u više domaćih i međunarodnih projekata kao koordinatorica projekata i član ekspertskih timova projekata, te na međunarodnim i domaćim naučnim konferencijama sa izlaganjima. U sklopu mnogobrojnih javnih angažmana, aktivna je članica Odbora za sociološke nauke ANU BiH, Balkanskom sociološkom forumu sa sjedištem u Tirani, Fondaciji Boris Divković, Programskom savjetu Naučnog i istraživačkog centra za Balkanske studije, Univerziteta u Lođu te je predstavnica iz Bosne i Hercegovine članica Naučnog vijeća UNESCO – Regionalnog ureda za nauku i kulturu, Venecija, Italija. Dobitnica je nagrade Univerziteta u Sarajevu za naučno/umjetnički rad za 2021. godinu.
Nirha Efendić
kustos je za usmenu poeziju Etnološkog odjeljenja Zemaljskog muzeja BiH. Diplomirala je na Odsjeku za orijentalnu filologiju Filozofskog fakulteta Univerziteta u Sarajevu (2002) gdje je i magistrirala (2009), a zatim i doktorirala (2014) iz oblasti književnohistorijskih nauka. Dobitnica je nagrade za najtalentiranije studente-apsolvente u 2002. godini na razini univerziteta u Federaciji BiH. Objavila je više desetina stručnih i naučnih članaka u domaćim i inozemnim glasilima, kao i dvije istraživačke studije. Prvu pod naslovom Bošnjačka usmena lirika – kulturnohistorijski okviri geneze i poetička obilježja (2015), a potom i drugu pod naslovom Sevdalinka – od prve vijesti do savremenih pjevača (2022) te priredila rukopisnu zbirku Smajla Bradarića od hiljadu usmenih pjesama pod naslovom Narodne umotvorine iz Dervente i okolice (2018). Objavila je i poglavlje o sevdalinci „The Sevdalinka as Traditional Bosnian Love Song“, koje je priredila za Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore (2023). Radovi su joj objavljivani na bosanskom, engleskom, hrvatskom, poljskom i slovenskom jeziku. Svoje istraživačko iskustvo, N. Efendić stjecala je i u toku nekoliko studijskih boravaka u Velikoj Britaniji (2004. u Exetreu; 2006-2007, u Oxfordu i 2008. u Stoke-on-Trentu). Potvrdu istraživačke izvrsnosti stekla je i u okviru projekta finansiranog od strane Evropske Unije kroz program Horison 2020, kao istraživač na projektu pod naslovom Closing the Gap Between Formal and Informal Institutions in the Balkans (INFORM, № 693537) 2015-2018.
Fahira Fejzić Čengić
rođena je u Visokom. Diplomirala je, magistrirala i doktorirala na Fakultetu političkih nauka na Odsjeku komunikologija/žurnalistika. U zvanje redovnog profesora izabrana je 2015. godine. Predaje nastavne discipline: Teorija informacija, Printano novinarstvo, Istraživačko novinarstvo, Medijska kultura, Filozofija medija. Napisala je veliki broj stručnih i naučnih radova te sedamnaest knjiga: Medijska globalizacija svijeta (2004), Uvod u teoriju informacija (2008) – udžbenik za studente, Medijska kultura u Bosni i Hercegovini (2009), Riječ je temelj društvenog života (2012), Stvarnost i mediji (I izdanje 2014. i II izdanje 2016), Nelagode s medijima (2016), Putopisi – Čuvari frekvencija (2011), Balkanski putopisi (2015), Evrad - Seven days of Heart (2020), Knowledge Crisis of Modern Time (2019), Kao ribe u vodi (2018) te Medijski zapis o zemlji (2021), Uvod u studije medija (2022), Život je veći od svake obmane (2022), Lav bosanski (2022 – I izdanje i 2023 – II izdanje). Učestvovala je na brojnim naučnim, međunarodnim i domaćim konferencijama, kongresima i simpozijima. Bila je sekretar Odsjeka, u dva navrata bila šef Odsjeka komunikologije/žurnalistike na Fakultetu političkih nauka. Dobitnik je interne nagrade Fakulteta za najbolji osvrt 2008. godine, za tekst o knjizi Carle del Ponte, objavljen u časopisu ANUBiH “Dijalog”.
Hikmet Karčić
je naučni saradnik na Institutu za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava – Univerzitet u Sarajevu, Bosna i Hercegovina. Autor je knjige Mučiti, poniziti, ubiti: Unutar sistema logora bosanskih Srba. (Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System) University of Michigan Press, 2022). Bio je globalni stipendista Auschwitz Instituta i Keene State College-a 2017. godine, a intenzivno piše o negiranju genocida i prevenciji zločina. Često je tražen komentator na međunarodnim medijima, a njegovi članci o krajnjoj desnici i masovnim zločinima objavljivani su u Haaretzu, Newsweeku i Foreign Policyju.
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Emil Kerenji
is a historian at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United StatesHolocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. He is a scholar of modern Jewish and East Europeanhistory, with expertise in the history of the Holocaust and World War II in Yugoslavia and the Balkansmore broadly. His research focuses on the relationship of genocidal violence against Jews and violentnationalizing regional policies of states allied with Nazi Germany. He edited and co-edited severalvolumes of Mandel Center’s source book series, Jewish Responses to Persecution, and co-createdExperiencing History, a web-based primary-source educational tool for use in north American collegeclassroom. He is currently leading the Holocaust Justice project at the Mandel Center, a pilot seekingto conceptualize and build a database of Holocaust trials in Europe after World War II.
Niké Wentholt
is an assistant professor at the University of Humanistic Studies. For the project Dialogics of Justice she studies how claimaints in the Netherlands seek recognition for institutional injustice. She cooperates with Dutch societal partners to explore how the project's insights on recognition and transformative justice can help improve repair processes. Specifically, she studies (often together with colleague researcher Alma Mustafić) how Dutch involvement in the genocide in Srebrenica is remembered and repaired - especially when it is not. She has completed her PhD project at the University of Groningen. Her dissertation was titled: 'Overcoming History, Becoming European? Politics of the Past and EU Accession in Serbia and Bulgaria'. It included field research in Bulgaria and Serbia. For the OSCE she designed and conducted a study on the (ab)use of history by extremist right-wing and jihadist groups in Serbia. She holds a Master of Science degree in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford and completed her undergraduate studies in History at the University of Groningen.
Ben Kiernan
obtained his Ph.D. from Monash University, Australia, in 1983. He is the author of Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (2007), which won the 2008 gold medal for the best work of history awarded by the Independent Publishers association, and the U.S. German Studies Association’s 2009 Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize for the best book published in 2007-2008 dealing with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust in its broadest context, covering the fields of history, political science, and other social sciences, literature, art, and photography. Kiernan’s work is featured in Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (2011) and in Southeast Asian History: Essential Readings (2006, 2013). His other awards include the Critical Asian Studies Prize for 2002, and an Honourable Mention in the “One of a Kind” category of the Canadian National Magazine Awards, for his 2006 co-authored article “Bombs over Cambodia.” His newest publication is The Cambridge World History of Genocide (2023), of which he is the General Editor.
Martin Shaw
is a historical sociologist who has published widely on genocide, including War and Genocide (2003), What is Genocide? (2007/2015) and Genocide and International Relations (2013), as well as articles on Ukraine (2023) and Gaza (2024) in the Journal of Genocide Research. He has recently completed The New Age of Genocide: Political and Intellectual Challenges after Gaza, which will be published by Agenda in October 2025. Discussions of Bosnia-Herzegovina feature in all his books on genocide, and include critical appraisals of the International Court of Justice’s 2007 judgement. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Network of Genocide Scholars in 2023. Martin is currently research professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) and emeritus professor of International Relations and politics at the University of Sussex. Apart from his work on genocide, he has published extensively on war, the antinuclear movement and the role of racism in far-right politics.
Hariz Halilovich
is Professor of Global Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne and an internationally recognised genocide scholar. His research explores genocide, forced displacement, war-related trauma, memory politics, and diaspora identities, with a strong focus on community-based and survivor-centred approaches. He is the author of Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Translocal Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities (Berghahn Books, 2013), which received international acclaim, and Writing After Srebrenica (Buybook, 2017). Halilovich’s scholarship is grounded in long-term collaborations with survivor communities and cultural institutions across Europe, the United States, and Australia. He is a regular contributor to public and academic debates on genocide, memory justice, and human rights, and is committed to using research as a tool for advocacy, education and social change. Through his work, Halilovich brings to light the lived experiences of those affected by genocide and displacement, underscoring the vital role of memory and storytelling in processes of healing, justice and the reconstruction of identity.
David J. Simon
is a Senior Lecturer and the Assistant Dean for Graduate Education at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University. He also serves as the Director of the Genocide Studies Program and the Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era initiative at Yale. His research focuses on atrocity prevention and the politics of recovery from mass atrocities. He is the co-editor of Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age: Memorialization Unmoored (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2020, with Eve M. Zucker), and The Handbook of Genocide Studies (Edward Elgar, 2023, with Leora Kahn). With Dr. Kahn, he created an exhibition titled Speaking Up: Confronting Hate Speech, which has shown at multiple museums since 2022. David serves on multiple boards, including those of the Reckoning Project, the Bosnia-based Post-Conflict Research Center, and Connecticut Voices of Hope. A graduate of Princeton University, he holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Pınar Akarçay
who graduated from Department of Political Science and Public Administration in 2006, completed her master's degree at the same department in 2009; and continued her doctoral studies in Istanbul University, Department of Political Science and Public Administration and Lund University, Department of Political Sciences in Sweden between 2010-2016. In 2016, she worked as a short-term guest researcher in Stockholm, Sweden, upon the invitation of Stockholm-SALAR (Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions), which works together with the European Union and the Swedish Government. Dr. Akarçay's postdoctoral research project was accepted by Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden in 2017, and Dr. Akarçay was invited to Uppsala University for a 2-years postdoctoral research between 2018-2020, and she completed her studies in January 2020. Dr. Akarçay, who is currently a institute member at Istanbul University International Institute for Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, is the Head of the Department of Genocide Studies. She teaches courses on Genocide Theories and History of Colonialism. She also conducts scientific studies in this field.
Rosa Aloisi
is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Trinity University, San Antonio - TX where she teaches International Politics, International Law, and Human Rights. Dr. Aloisi holds a J.D. from the University of Messina, Italy, an Advanced Certification in International Criminal Cooperation from the University of Catania, Italy, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. Dr. Aloisi’s research focuses on the work of international criminal tribunals, human rights institutions, and the evolution of international criminal law. In addition to her focus on international law, Dr. Aloisi conducts research on the factors shaping the commemoration of international crimes and on the political and social narrative of international migration. Her scholarship is published in Judicature, International Criminal Law Review and Journal of Conflict Resolution. She published her book Judgment Day – Judicial Decision Making at the International Tribunals with Cambridge University Press and is currently working on her second book manuscript on the memorialization of suffering. 
Marko Attila Hoare
is an Associate Professor and Head of Research for the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Sarajevo School of Science and Technology. He was born in London and received his BA (Hons) in History for the University of Cambridge in 1994 and his PhD in History from Yale University in 2000. He is the author of four published books on the history of Bosnia-Hercegovina: How Bosnia Armed, Saqi Books, London, 2004; Genocide and Resistance in Hitler’s Bosnia - The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006 (winner of the 2004 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Monograph Competition); The History of Bosnia - From the Middle Ages to the Present Day, Saqi, London, 2007; and The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War - A History, Hurst, London, 2013. His work has appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Standpoint, Prospect, Open Democracy, New Lines Magazine, Left Foot Forward and The American Conservative. He has featured in programmes by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and the Sky History Channel, and made appearances on many TV and radio stations including BBC TV and Sky News. His latest book is Serbia: A Modern History, Hurst, London, 2024.
A. Dirk Moses
is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College of New York. He is the author and editor of books on genocide and memory studies. Recent anthologies include The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials (2025), The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Victims Perpetrators Justice and the Question of Genocide (2024), and Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory (2023). He is author of The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression (2021) and edits the Journal of Genocide Research. He writes for public audiences in The Boston Review, Noema Magazine, and Lawfare.
Norman M. Naimark
received his A.B., M.A. and Ph.D (1972) from Stanford University. He spent fifteen years as Professor of History at Boston University and Research Fellow at the Russian Research Center at Harvard before returning to Stanford in 1988. He is presently Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies, emeritus, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution., and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, of the Freeman-Spogli Institute of International Studies. Among other administrative posts at Stanford, Naimark served as Chair of the Department of History, Burke Family Director of the Bing Overseas Studies Program, and Fisher Family Director of the Global Studies Division. His most recent books are Genocide: A World History (Oxford 2017), and Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Struggle for Sovereignty (Harvard 2019). He is co-editor of and contributor to vol. III of The Cambridge World History of Genocide (Cambridge, 2023).
Kim Sadique
is an Associate Professor in Genocide Prevention and Education at De Montfort University (DMU), Leicester, UK. Her PhD thesis: 'Learning from Genocide: A narrative study of guiding experiences at sites of mass atrocities in Poland and Bosnia' established a pedagogical model for the delivery of genocide education that leads to global, active citizenship. Her recent work has led to the development of an open access virtual Bosnia Room exploring the Bosnian genocide which has been featured on the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina website. This virtual platform is supported by a pedagogically underpinned teaching guide, 'Antiracist Education: A Pedagogy for Social Change using a virtual Bosnian Genocide platform'. Kim is a DMU UNSDG Fellow and her work directly supports SDG16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions. Kim is Chair of Remembering Srebrenica UK’s Academic Board and Patron of Bosnia and Herzegovina UK Network. Additionally, Kim is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity and the International Association of Genocide Scholars. As a Scholar-Activist Kim is committed to foregrounding the voices of survivors in educating about genocide.
Henry Theriault
Ph.D., is Associate Provost at Worcester State University in the United States, after teaching in its Philosophy Department 1998-2017. He coordinated WSU’s Human Rights Center 1999-2007. With a social and political as well as continental philosophy background, Theriault researches genocide denial, genocide prevention, post-genocide victim-perpetrator relations, reparations, and mass violence against women and girls. He has lectured around the world and published numerous journal articles and chapters. He is lead author of the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group’s 2015 Resolution with Justice, and, with Samuel Totten, co-authored The United Nations Genocide Convention: An Introduction (University of Toronto Press, 2019), and, with Chunhui Peng, coeditor of Aftermath of Mass Violence: A Comprehensive Approach through Theory and Case Studies (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). Theriault’s work has appeared in English, Spanish, Armenian, Turkish, and other languages. Theriault served two terms as president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, 2017-2019 and 2019-2021. He has been founding co-editor of Genocide Studies International since 2012 and co-edited Genocide Studies and Prevention 2007-2012. He currently serves as vice-chair of the executive committee of the board of directors of the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research and is a member of the Armenian Society of Fellows.
Samuel Totten
taught at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville from 1987 to 2012. In 2008, he served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for Conflict Management at the National University of Rwanda. During the 2009-2010 academic year he held the Ida King Distinguished Visiting Fellow’s Chair in the Masters Program of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and in 2018 he was a Chancellor’s Visiting Professor during which he taught courses on genocide. During the summer of 2004, Totten served as one of the 24 investigators with the U.S. State Department’s Atrocities Documentation Project (ADP), interviewing refugees from Darfur located in camps along the Chad/Sudan border. From 2006 to 2017 Totten conducted field research in the war-torn Nuba Mountains of Sudan. Currently, he is conducting research in Ukraine. More specifically, he is conducting extremely long and detailed interviews with Ukrainian civilians who fled the fighting in eastern Ukraine. He is the author of five books on genocide, the most recent being (co-authored with Henry Theriault) The United Nations Genocide Convention: An Introduction (University of Toronto Press, 2020). Currently, he is working on a book about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Rafiki Ubaldo
is a doctoral Student at The Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Analysis, and a George Mason University Presidential Scholar. Before joining The Carter School, he worked in the professional services at Stockholm University and Lund University in Sweden. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Stockholm University and a Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Uppsala University in Sweden. A veteran journalist, he worked in East Africa and Europe. A portfolio of his photography is available here: www.templesofmemory.org. He is a co-editor of two books, and several book chapters. His short story debut, “The Bullet,” was published in Two Third North, and translated and published in Polish, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish. He has served as an Executive Board member of The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), and the Editorial Board of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal. In Rwanda, he advocated for the study of genocide and prevention, and is honored to have served on the team that created the Masters Programme in Genocide Studies and Prevention at The Centre for Conflict Management, University of Rwanda. In 2025, Rafiki Ubaldo was appointed Outreach and Community Director for Peace Chronicle, the Magazine of Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA).
Onur Uraz
is an Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Hacettepe University Law School. He holds a Ph.D. in International Law from the University of Southampton and an LL.M. from the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on international criminal law, in particular the laws against genocide, international courts and tribunals, and international legal theory. Uraz is currently the Chair of the Resolutions Committee of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Eurasian Studies (AVİM). He has also advised the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in his areas of expertise. Uraz is the author of Classifying Genocide in International Law: The Substantiality Requirement (Routledge, 2022).
Benjamin Valentino
is a Professor in the Department of Government and the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College. His research interests focus on the causes, consequences and prevention of violent conflict. He is the co-creator of the Early Warning Project, which uses state-of-the-art methods to assess the risk of mass atrocities in countries around the world. At Dartmouth he teaches courses on international relations, international security, American foreign policy, and the causes and prevention of genocide. Professor Valentino’s book, Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century, received the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award for making an exceptional contribution to the study of national and international security. His work has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The American Political Science Review, Security Studies, International Organization, Public Opinion Quarterly, World Politics, and The Journal of Politics. He earned a BA in Political Science from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Eric Ndushabandi
is Director of the Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace, IRDP is an independent think tank and peacebuilding organization that focuses on three areas of intervention: Peacebuilding and Peace Education, Governance, and Socio-economic Development. He also teaches Political Science at the University of Rwanda. Today IRDP is engaged in extensive work on community healing and social cohesion through community dialogue and Youth Clubs. His research encompasses memory policy in post conflict societies, democratization processes, public policy analysis, reconstruction (state-building and nation building perspectives), and conflict transformation. Eric is Co-I of AHRC GCRF Network Plus Changing the Story.
Edina Bećirević
is a Professor of Security Studies at the Faculty of Criminal Justice, Criminology and Security Studies. She has published extensively on transitional justice, genocide, and extremism, and is the author of Genocide on the Drina River (Yale University Press, 2014) and Salafism vs. Moderate Islam (Atlantic Initiative, 2016). Her latest publications include a contribution to The Cambridge World History of Genocide, Volume III (CUP, 2023), edited by Kiernan, Lower, Naimark, and Straus, with a chapter titled "Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1992–1995." In the past four years, her research has focused on malign foreign influence and authoritarianism. Her forthcoming book, Putinism in the Western Balkans, is expected to be published in the autumn of 2025. Edina studied at the University of Sarajevo, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Central European University. She was also a Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellow at Yale University.
Mujo Begić
born in 1968 in Orašac, Bihać municipality. Married and father of two children. Studied in Belgrade and Sarajevo and received his doctorate from the Faculty of Law, University of Bihać. Currently employed at the Institute for Missing Persons of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the head of the office for missing persons for the Bosanska Krajina region. He is a professor at the University of Bihać. He is the author of several notable photography exhibitions. In his scientific work, he participated in dozens of conferences, meetings, and round tables. He is the author of 15 books. Reviewer of four books. He has received several awards for his work to date. He was declared an honorary citizen of the Ključ municipality and the winner of the highest award of the Bihać municipality, the "Povelja 26. februar".
Muamer Džananović
is the Director of the Institute for Research on Crimes against Humanity and International Law at the University of Sarajevo. He holds a BA, MA and PhD in philosophy, sociology and sociology of genocide. He is the author and co-author of several scientific books, publications and reports dealing with the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina, war crimes, genocide, crime denial and the politics of revisionism. He has actively participated in the implementation of numerous scientific projects and has been a member of the organizational and scientific committees of domestic and international conferences. So far, he has reviewed and edited a number of scientific publications, and has also made a significant contribution to the production of documentary films based on the Institute's research. His dedication as the head of the Institute is particularly noteworthy, where in a short time he initiated a number of important scientific activities and international cooperation, including meetings organized with the world's most prestigious universities. Among the key initiatives is the establishment of the Institute's Yearbook, whose editorial board includes leading world genocide theorists. He was also elected to the title of assistant professor for the narrower scientific field of sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla. He is a member of several domestic and international scientific associations and societies.
Jasmin Medić
was born on October 19, 1986 in Prijedor. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. He is the author of one, co-author of two scientific monographs and one study, and co-author of the History Course Manual for primary and secondary schools in the Sarajevo Canton. In addition, he is the author of 22 scientific and professional articles as well as nine reviews published in indexed journals in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Croatia and Montenegro in the fields of modern and contemporary history, genocide, crimes against humanity and victimology. He has also participated in 40 international scientific conferences and other scientific meetings and round tables in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad. He currently holds the title of Senior Research Associate for Modern History at the Institute of History, University of Sarajevo and a professor of the subjects History of Wars and Military History at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo.
Hasan Nuhanović
(Zvornik, 1968) was a fourth-year student at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Sarajevo in April 1992. He survived the genocide in Srebrenica, in which his father, mother and brother were killed. He has published numerous articles on the topic of the genocide in Srebrenica, with a special focus on the role of the international community in these events. In 2005, he published the book Under the UN Flag - the International Community and the Genocide in Srebrenica. In 2012, he published the book Zbijeg, a documentary chronology of his family during 1992 and 1993 from Vlasenica, through Stoborane, Žepa to Srebrenica, published by Media Center. Both books have been translated into English. He received his PhD in 2022. He currently works for the Srebrenica Memorial Center - Potočari as an advisor.
Edin Omerčić
was born in 1981 in Pula. He completed primary and secondary school in Rovinj. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo in 2007. Since 2008, he has been working at the Institute of History in Sarajevo. He defended his master's thesis in 2013 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. He has been a member of the Association for Modern History in Sarajevo since its establishment, and is the secretary of the journal "Historia Moderna Bosna&Herzegovina". From 2017 to 2019, he was a member of the editorial board of the journal for literature and social issues Behar, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Journal, a bimonthly of the Cultural Society of Bosniaks in Croatia "Preporod" from Zagreb. He received his doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb in 2023.
Emir Suljagić
was born in 1975 in Ljubovija, Serbia, and grew up in Bratunac and Srebrenica. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo and received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He lives in Sarajevo with his wife Aida Bjelopoljak. He was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SDPBiH) from 2009 to early 2012, and joined the Democratic Front (DF) in mid-2014, where he stayed for a year. Since 2016, he has been a member of the Civic Alliance, where he serves as the President of the Political Council. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as a translator in the United Nations mission in Srebrenica. Then, for ten years, from 1996 to 2006, he worked as a journalist in the Sarajevo weekly magazine "Dani". For five months in 2006, he was an advisor in the cabinet of the then Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Adnan Terzić. From 2009 to 2011, he was an advisor to the Mayor of Sarajevo, Alija Behmen, and was then appointed Minister of Education and Science in the Government of Sarajevo Canton. He resigned from this position in January 2012. Since mid-2012, he has been involved in the initiative and coalition of non-governmental organizations "Prvi Mart", which he left in July 2014. In 2019, he was appointed Acting Director, and then Director, of the Srebrenica Memorial Center.
Sead Turčalo
is an associate professor at the Department of Security and Peace Studies. Since 2019, he has served as the Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo. He was born in 1978 in Sarajevo. He defended his doctoral dissertation “Realistička teorija međunarodnih odnosa u interpretaciji kritičke geopolitike” on June 16, 2014, at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo. In the first and second cycles of studies at the Department of Security and Peace Studies and the Department of Political Science, he teaches the courses Geopolitics, International Security, Energy Security, and Conflict Management in International Relations. In the interdisciplinary doctoral study at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo, he lectures on the course Geopolitical Studies of the Contemporary World. In the doctoral study “Global Studies” of the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies, University of Sarajevo, he teaches the course Geopolitics and Global Order. He has given guest lectures at Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po Dijon, Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, and the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. He is the principal investigator of the Horizon2020 project “PAVE”. He has published five books and four studies, as well as around thirty papers in reference journals and proceedings. His latest books are: “Popularna geopolitika” (2021) published by the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb and “Presretnuti razgovori: pripreme za rat” (2022) published by the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo and the Srebrenica Memorial Center. He was a member of the executive editorial board of the journal “Godišnjak Fakulteta političkih nauka”. From 2012 to 2015, he edited the journal “Sarajevski žurnal za društvena pitanja”, published by the Faculty of Political Sciences, UNSA. He is the executive editor of the bilingual reference professional journal “Democracy and Security in Southeast Europe”, published by the non-governmental organization “Atlantic Initiative” from Sarajevo. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals “Journal of Regional Security” and “European Quarterly of Political Attitudes and Mentalities”.
Enis Omerovic
Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Zenica. Associate Professor in Public International Law. Assistant Professor in International Criminal Law. Vice Dean for Science and Research at the University of Zenica, Faculty of Law (2018-2021). President of the Council of Doctoral Studies of the Faculty of Law of the University of Zenica (2024-2025) and a Member of the Governing Board of the University of Zenica (2023-2025). Associate Professor at Prince Sultan University, College of Law, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2021 until 2023. Visiting Professor at the University of Tuzla, the University of Džemal Bijedić in Mostar, and the University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Political Sciences. Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security Studies of the University of Sarajevo. Visiting Professor at the PhD studies at the Faculty of Law of the University in Osijek (Croatia) in 2023. Erasmus Professor at the University of Wroclaw, Poland, in 2021. LLM degree from the University of Glasgow (UK). (Post)PhD Colloquium from the University of Saarland (Europa Institute, Germany). A student of the Hague Academy of International Law (The Netherlands). One of the directors of the course "Crime prevention through criminal law and security studies" of the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, at the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik. A member of the Committee for Legal Science of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Co-Editor of the Springer Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL). Member of the Scientific Board of the American Yearbook of International Law; Member of the Editorial Board of the University of Niš Facta Universitatis: Law & Politics; Co-Editor in Chief of Anali Pravnog fakulteta Univerziteta u Zenici. Member of the Scientific Board of Godišnjak Instituta za istraživanje zločina protiv čovječnosti i međunarodnog prava Univerziteta u Sarajevu. Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Conflict, Genocide and Post-Conflict Studies (JCGC). Member of the European Society of International Law (ESIL).
Ehlimana Memišević
PhD, is an Asocciate Professor at the Department of Legal History and Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo. She holds her B.A., M. A. and PhD in Law from the University of Sarajevo. Her major research fields include legal history and genocide studies.
Zilha Mastalić Košuta
graduated from the Department of History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. At the same Faculty, she earned her master's and doctoral degrees in the study group "History of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 19th and 20th centuries" and earned the title of Doctor of Historical Sciences. Her field of research is contemporary history, especially political and military history, as well as war crimes in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond during World War II and in the period 1992-1995. Since 2005, she has been working at the University of Sarajevo - Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law, in the scientific sector, currently in the position of senior scientific associate. So far, she has published six authored and co-authored books and more than 30 scientific and professional papers. She is the Chairwoman of the Council for History and Promotion of Preservation of Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage, a member of the Council of the Congress of Bosniak Intellectuals (VKBI), a member of the Sarajevo Canton Commission for Marking, Preservation and Cultivation of Historical Events and Personalities, a member of world organizations of genocide researchers, etc.
Lada Sadiković
received her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo. She is employed at the University of Sarajevo - FKKSS, where she works as a full professor in the subject of Constitutional Law. In addition to numerous works, she is the author of seven books, namely: Vanredno stanje i ljudska prava (2003); Država u evropskom poretku (2005); Ljudska prava (2006); Ustav Bosne i Hercegovine i Evropska konvencija za zaštitu ljudskih prava i osnovnih sloboda (2010); Ustav Bosne i Hercegovine, sigurnost i ljudska prava (2012); Venecijanska komisija o Ustavu Bosne i Hercegovine, (2016) and Ogledi o Ustavu Bosne i Hercegovine (2016). She is the recipient of the Plaque for the Development of the Concept of Human Rights, Freedoms and Security (Skopje, 2016).
Izet Šabotić
is a full professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Tuzla, Department of History, in the narrow scientific field of "Novi vijek". He is the author and co-author of 12 books and six textbooks, and more than 320 scientific and professional papers in the field of history and archival studies, published in several domestic and foreign journals. He is the editor and reviewer of more than 80 books in the field of history and archival studies.He has participated in numerous scientific and professional international conferences in Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad. He was a long-time editor-in-chief of the journals: Arhivska praksa and Glasnik arhiva and the Archival Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a member of the editorial boards of several international and domestic journals and other publications. He is currently the executive director of the Center for Research of Modern and Contemporary History Tuzla, and the editor of the reference scientific journal Historijski pogledi. He is a member of several professional and scientific commissions of all levels in the field of history and archival studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina and neighboring countries. He is currently engaged in the implementation of several scientific international projects.
Elvedin Mulagić
was born in 1971 in Mokrine, Hadžići Municipality. He earned his PhD from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo in 2023. He is professionally engaged in the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the rank of Brigadier. During 2013 and 2014, he participated as a member of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the UN peacekeeping mission in the DR Congo as a military observer. Throughout his military career, he has participated in various international conferences and seminars in the field of defense and security, both in the country and abroad. He is the author of the book "Negiranje genocida nad Bošnjacima", published in 2015 by the Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law, University of Sarajevo, and co-author of the book "Hadžići tokom agresije na Republiku Bosnu i Hercegovinu 1992-1995" (Zilha Mastalić Košuta, Vahid Alađuz and Elvedin Mulagić), Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law, University of Sarajevo and Municipality of Hadžići in 2022.He is the author of the following scientific works: "Osvrt na knjigu Dobrice Ćosića - Negiranje genocida nad Bošnjacima i nastavak kontinuiranog rada na oživotvorenju projekta 'Velika Srbija'“ u: Ćosićev rat, Smail Čekić (ur.), Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, 2012. "Negiranje genocida nad Tutsima i genocida nad Bošnjacima – komparativni prikaz“ u: Srebrenica 1995-2015: Evolucija nasljeđa i dugoročnih posljedica genocida, Fikret Bečirović i Džananović Muamer (ur.), Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, 2016. "Primjena UN doktrine 'Odgovornost za pružanje zaštite' i zločini nad Rohinja narodom u Mijanmaru“, Context, br. 8.2, Center for Advanced Studies, Sarajevo, 2021.
Merisa Karović-Babić
was born on February 2, 1983 in Sarajevo, where she completed primary and secondary school, and studied history at the Faculty of Philosophy, defending her thesis in 2006. At that time, she enrolled in postgraduate studies in the History of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 19th and 20th centuries group, which she successfully completed in 2013 with the defense of her master's thesis Masovna ubistva civila u Sarajevu za vrijeme opsade 1992‒1995. She defended her doctoral dissertation entitled Sigurne zone Ujedinjenih nacija u Bosni i Hercegovini 1993‒1995: Bihać i Goražde - Comparative Analysis in 2019 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo. Her master's and doctoral theses were defended under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Husnija Kamberović. She is employed as a senior research associate at the Institute for Research on Crimes against Humanity and International Law, University of Sarajevo. So far, she has published two authored books, one co-authored book, 16 scientific papers, several book reviews, essays, and was the editor and editor of several books. She is also the author of the manual for primary and secondary schools "Edukativni materijali o obilježavanju godišnjica masovnog stradanja građana Sarajeva 1992-1995". She is a member of the Association for Modern History (UMHIS).
Sarina Bakić
is an associate professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Department of Sociology and head of the Department of Sociology. She was born in 1973 in Sarajevo. She is the author of the book Kontroverze recepcije kulture, and co-author of the books Nasilje nad ženama – diskursi, perspektive, lekcije iz BiH povijesti, Razumijevanje društva and Mirovni potencijal religija i međureligijski dijalog kao sredstvo za unapređenje političkog dijaloga u Bosni i Hercegovini. Her narrow scientific field of activity is the sociology of culture and art, she researches various phenomena of mass culture, aesthetics, and the relationship between art and politics, deals with the critical culture of memory, various segments of intercultural dialogue, and cultural diplomacy. Sarina Bakić is the author of dozens of scientific and professional papers in recent domestic and foreign journals. She has participated in several domestic and international projects as a project coordinator and member of expert project teams, and at international and domestic scientific conferences with presentations. As part of her numerous public engagements, she is an active member of the Committee for Sociological Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Balkan Sociological Forum based in Tirana, the Boris Divković Foundation, the Program Council of the Scientific and Research Center for Balkan Studies, University of Lodz, and is the representative from Bosnia and Herzegovina on the Scientific Council of UNESCO - Regional Office for Science and Culture, Venice, Italy. She is the recipient of the University of Sarajevo Award for Scientific/Artistic Work for 2021.
Nirha Efendić
is the curator of oral poetry at the Ethnological Department of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She graduated from the Department of Oriental Philology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo (2002), where she also received her master's degree (2009), and then her doctorate (2014) in the field of literary and historical sciences. She won the award for the most talented graduating students in 2002 at the university level in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has published dozens of professional and scientific articles in domestic and foreign publications, as well as two research studies. The first one was titled Bošnjačka usmena lirika – kulturnohistorijski okviri geneze i poetička obilježja (2015), and then the second one was titled Sevdalinka – od prve vijesti do savremenih pjevača (2022), and she edited Smajlo Bradarić's manuscript collection of a thousand oral poems titled Narodne umotvorine iz Dervente i okolice (2018). She also published a chapter on sevdalinka, "The Sevdalinka as Traditional Bosnian Love Song", which she prepared for the Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore (2023). Her works have been published in Bosnian, English, Croatian, Polish and Slovenian. N. Efendić also gained her research experience during several study stays in the United Kingdom (2004 in Exeter; 2006-2007, in Oxford and 2008 in Stoke-on-Trent). She also gained confirmation of her research excellence within the framework of a project funded by the European Union through the Horizon 2020 program, as a researcher on the project entitled Closing the Gap Between Formal and Informal Institutions in the Balkans (INFORM, № 693537) 2015-2018.
Fejzić Čengić Fahira
was born in Visoko. She received her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Communication Studies/Journalism. She was elected to the title of full professor in 2015. She teaches the following disciplines: Information Theory, Print Journalism, Investigative Journalism, Media Culture, and Media Philosophy. She has written a large number of professional and scientific papers and seventeen books: Medijska globalizacija svijeta (2004), Uvod u teoriju informacija (2008) – a textbook for students, Media Culture in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2009), Riječ je temelj društvenog života (2012), Stvarnost i mediji (1st edition 2014 and 2nd edition 2016), Nelagode s medijima (2016), Putopisi – Čuvari frekvencija (2011), Balkanski putopisi (2015), Evrad - Seven Days of Heart (2020), Knowledge Crisis of Modern Time (2019), Kao ribe u vodi (2018) and Medijski zapis o zemlji (2021), Uvod u studije medija (2022), Život je veći od svake obmane (2022), Lav bosanski (2022 – 1st edition and 2023 – 2nd edition). She has participated in numerous scientific, international and domestic conferences, congresses and symposia. She was the Secretary of the Department, and twice the Head of the Department of Communication/Journalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences. She won the Faculty's internal award for the best review in 2008, for an article about Carla del Ponte's book, published in the ANUBiH magazine "Dijalog".
Hikmet Karčić
is a research associate at the Institute for the Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law – University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is the author of Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System (University of Michigan Press, 2022). He was a 2017 Auschwitz Institute and Keene State College Global Fellow, and writes extensively on genocide denial and crime prevention. He is a frequently sought-after commentator in international media, and his articles on the far right and mass atrocities have been published in Haaretz, Newsweek, and Foreign Policy.
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