How to talk about the past and confront difficult war legacies? Why is remembrance important, and what is the Culture of Remembrance? Facts about the armed conflicts of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia are subject to constant and deliberate distortion within the framework of dominant and state policies of remembrance. Through an audio podcast, the Humanitarian Law Center contributes to public dialogue on topics related to memory policies and cultures and facing the past, opposing the hegemonic narratives about the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the ensuing conflicts. The podcast addresses all aspects of the Culture of Remembrance, aiming to highlight the constructed nature of dominant narratives and deconstruct them through conversations with experts and activists in the field of grassroots memorialisation. The podcast is in the common regional languages, i.e. BCMS, with occasional episodes in English.
Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest in how the memory of past crimes informs and shapes state policies and international relations. Social scientists, except...
The initiative to establish the Regional Commission for Establishing the Facts about War Crimes and Other Serious Human Rights Violations in the former Yugoslavia (RECOM)...
Public memory of war victims is often dominated by ethnocentric narratives as a national strategy, emphasizing the scale of crimes of Other while marginalizing one’s own....
Germany constitutes a singular case of a society which was forced to reconsider its past twice within 50 years. The guilt of the Nazi Germany and the accountability of the German...
How did 24 March become the central site of memory in Serbia? In this episode, we are looking at the renaissance of the memory of the 1999 NATO intervention in Serbia. We are...
What is memory activism? What is the role of memory activism and alternative commemorations in post-conflict societies? We are discussing memory activism and memory of activism in...
On 26 February 1992, without prior warning, the newly independent Slovenian state erased more than 25 thousand of its residents from the register. The erasure and its devastating...
How is the 1994 genocide remembered in today’s Rwanda? How do Rwandans make sense of their experiences of the genocide and its aftermath? In this episode, we are discussing...
What is the role of forensic anthropology in the post-conflict context? In this episode, we are talking about the search for the disappeared and victims of the internal armed...
Why do people participate in genocide? What motivates the individuals to become perpetrators? In this episode, we’re talking about the genocide, its perpetration,...
