XV Forum for Transitional Justice in Post-Yugoslav Countries – Reconciliation Has No Alternative

RECOM Reconciliation Network organizes XV Forum for transitional justice in post-Yugoslav countries. The Forum programme will be available online, via the ZOOM platform, by registering on LINK.

 

RECONCILIATION HAS NO ALTERNATIVE

 

 

Zagreb, Hotel Academia, December 12, 2022 – December 14, 2022

 

Monday, December 12

 

14:00                           Arrival and accommodation

 

19:00                           The voice of the victim – testimonies before the ICTY (video)

 

20:00                           Joint dinner

 

 

Tuesday, December 13

 

9:00 – 9:20                 Opening words

 

Vesna Teršelič, Nataša Kandić

 

 

9:20 – 11:00                The wartime nineties from the youth perspective

 

Panelists:

 

dr.sc. Anja Gvozdanović, Institute for Social Research Zagreb

Sofija Todorović, The Youth Initiative for Human Rights Serbia

Samir Beharić, member of the Transatlantic Inclusion Leaders Network (TILN) of the German Marshall Fund

Marigona Shabiu, The Youth Initiative for Human Rights Kosovo

 

Moderator: Branka Vierda, The Youth Initiative for Human Rights Croatia

 

 

11:00 – 11:30              Break

 

 

11:30 – 13:00              Criminal justice – prosecution of war crimes

 

Panelists:

 

Drita Hajdari, Prosecutor, Special Prosecutor’s Office of Kosovo, Head od War Crimes Department

Jasmina Dolmagić, Deputy Chief State Attorney, State Attorney Office of Croatia

Nedžad Smailagić, expert advisor for monitoring court proceedings, Rule of Law Department of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sead Spahović, Attorney, Serbia

Klaudio Čurin, Attorney, Croatia

 

 

Moderator: Tea Gorjanc Prelević,  Human Rights Action, Montenegro

 

 

13:00 – 14:30              Lunch

 

 

14:30 – 16:00              A strong artistic perspective in building a common remembrance culture

 

Panelists:

 

Olja Savičević Ivančević, writer and poet, Croatia

Ognjen Glavonić, film director, Serbia

Ognjen Spahić, writer, Montenegro

Adela Jušić, visual artist, Bosnia and Herzegovina

 

Moderator: Prof. Milena Dragičević Šešić, Ph.D., Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade

 

 

16:30 – 17:00              Break

 

 

17:00 – 18:30              Remembering the suffering of others and the different: how to create a common remembrance culture?

 

Panelists:

 

Prof. Siniša Malešević, Ph.D., University College, Dublin

Prof. Nerzuk Ćurak, Ph.D., Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo

Mišo Kapetanović, Ph.D., Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies

Austrian Academy of Sciences

Rok Zupančič, Ph.D., Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana

Naum Trajanovski, Assistant at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw

 

Moderator: Prof. Mila Dragojević, Ph.D., The Univresity of the South, USA

 

 

Wednesday, December 14

 

 

9:00 – 10:45               Processes of reconciliation and (un)successful political practices

 

Panelists:

 

Vildana Selimbegović, chief editor of the daily newspaper Oslobođenje, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Boško Jakšić, journalist, Serbia

Veton Surroi, publicist, Kosovo

Marko Jelić, Ph.D., prefect of the Šibenik-Knin County

 

Moderator: Borna Sor, journalist, Croatia

 

 

 

10:45 – 11:00              Final remarks

 

Nataša Kandić, Vesna Teršelič