Panel Disscussion: “Reconciliation policies and their results in the Western Balkans; a 30-year perspective“
Wednesday, 20 October 2021, 10.00-12.30
Zagreb, Novinarski dom
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Join us on Wednesday at 10AM in Zagreb, Croatian Journalist Association House (Novinarski dom) or via livestream for a
Panel Disscussion: “Reconciliation policies and their results in the Western Balkans; a 30-year perspective“
Our four speakers are exceptionally qualified to offer introductory remarks on the topic.
JASNA DRAGOVIĆ-SOSO is Professor of International Politics and History at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of “Saviours of the Nation”: Serbia’s Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism (Hurst and McGill-Queens University Press, 2002), and the co-editor of State Collapse in South-Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on Yugoslavia’s Dissolution (Purdue University Press, 2008, with Lenard J. Cohen). She has written extensively about the history and politics of the post-Yugoslav region, including on processes of confronting the recent past, and coedits the Palgrave book series on Memory Politics and Transitional Justice (with Jelena Subotić and Tsveta Petrova). She has provided expertise on the post-Yugoslav region to various non-academic stakeholders, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, non-governmental organizations in the UK and the Western Balkans, the Royal Court Theatre, the International Commission on the Balkans, and British and international media outlets. She is currently writing a book about truth commission initiatives, memory politics and transitional justice in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars.
ERIC GORDY is Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology at the School for Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. His research concentrates on Southeast Europe, especially the states of the former Yugoslavia. He is the author of The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives and Guilt, Responsibility and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia, and editor (with Adnan Efendić) of Meaningful reform in the Western Balkans: Between formal institutions and informal practices. He was coordinator and principal investigator for the Horizon 2020 research project INFORM: Closing the Gap Between Formal and Informal Institutions in the Balkans.
VESNA TERŠELIČ is Director of Documenta and member of the Regional Council of RECOM. She was one of the founders of the Anti-war Campaign in the early 1990s. Under her leadership Documenta developed archival, research and advocacy roles with regard to researching and promoting peace and reconciliation.
IVO JOSIPOVIĆ was President of the Republic of Croatia in 2010-2015. He was a member of Parliament (SDP) and leader of Forward Croatia party. Ivo Josipović is Professor at Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. Both in his political and academic carreer he was focussed on the role of ICTY and policies of reconciliation in a wider region of Western Balkans.
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