Srebrenica Genocide 30 Years On 1995-2025: Impunity and Glorification of Mass Atrocity in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Join us either in-person or online with Dr Olivera Simic, a feminist, human rights activist and a Professor at the Griffith Law School, who will speak about the politics and culture of twenty years of Srebrenica genocide denial in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond.
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The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) from 1992 to 1995 resulted in ethnic cleansing, genocide, mass displacement and significant human rights violations. The 1995 the Dayton Peace Accords ended the armed conflict by creating a power sharing framework dividing the country into two entities, the Federation of BiH and Republika Srpska, and Brcko district. However, the country's unruly post-war order has resulted in an extremely complicated political regimes, teetering on collapse. This talk will analyse the politics and culture of twenty years of Srebrenica genocide denial in BiH and beyond. It will show how denial at the political level spilled over to a pervasive culture of genocide, in all elements of society. Prof Simic will argue that without significant revision and radical reform of law, education, and political institutions we can expect to see continuation of the denial of the Srebrenica genocide for many years to come. Thirty years after the genocide in BiH, the country is in the grips of an escalating political crisis, renewed violence and further fragmentation.
Agenda
- Seminar Presentation with Professor Olivera Simic
Olivera Simic
Professor at Griffith Law SchoolOlivera Simiฤ is a Professor with the Griffith Law School, a feminist and a human rights activist. Dr Simiฤ was born in the former Yugoslavia and lived through the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999). She was nineteen years old, studying the first year of a law degree in Bosnia and Herzegovina when the Bosnian War broke out in 1992. Initially as a refugee and later as a migrant, Dr Simiฤ lived and studied in Europe, the USA and South America, before coming to Australia in 2006. In 2014 Dr Simiฤ published memoir based on her experiences with war in Bosnia titled Surviving Peace: a political memoir (Spinifex).
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She has published four monographs and eight co-edited collections, numerous book chapters, journal articles and personal narratives. Her writing has appeared in online media such as The Conversation, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network and Lawyers Weekly. Her non-fiction work draws on hundreds of interviews with victims, perpetrators and bystanders of the wars. The stories of people who struggle with post-war trauma and seek some form of justice for crimes they survived, particularly women, are at the heart of Dr Simiฤ’s work. Her latest book Lola's War: Rape Without Punishment was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023. Her forthcoming book Madam War Criminal: Biljana Plavsic, Serbia's Iron Lady will be published by Hurst in 2025.
Dr Simiฤ was a nominee for the Penny Pether Prize for Scholarship in Law, Literature and the Humanities, and won the Peace Women Award from Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF, Australian branch). Lola's War has been shortlisted for Australian Law Research Book Award 2024.
- Questions from the Audience
Olivera SimicOlivera Simic
Professor at Griffith Law SchoolOlivera Simiฤ is a Professor with the Griffith Law School, a feminist and a human rights activist. Dr Simiฤ was born in the former Yugoslavia and lived through the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999). She was nineteen years old, studying the first year of a law degree in Bosnia and Herzegovina when the Bosnian War broke out in 1992. Initially as a refugee and later as a migrant, Dr Simiฤ lived and studied in Europe, the USA and South America, before coming to Australia in 2006. In 2014 Dr Simiฤ published memoir based on her experiences with war in Bosnia titled Surviving Peace: a political memoir (Spinifex).
More information about speaker
She has published four monographs and eight co-edited collections, numerous book chapters, journal articles and personal narratives. Her writing has appeared in online media such as The Conversation, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network and Lawyers Weekly. Her non-fiction work draws on hundreds of interviews with victims, perpetrators and bystanders of the wars. The stories of people who struggle with post-war trauma and seek some form of justice for crimes they survived, particularly women, are at the heart of Dr Simiฤ’s work. Her latest book Lola's War: Rape Without Punishment was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023. Her forthcoming book Madam War Criminal: Biljana Plavsic, Serbia's Iron Lady will be published by Hurst in 2025.
Dr Simiฤ was a nominee for the Penny Pether Prize for Scholarship in Law, Literature and the Humanities, and won the Peace Women Award from Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF, Australian branch). Lola's War has been shortlisted for Australian Law Research Book Award 2024.
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