Students of the Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts are invited to attend an open discussion on Monday, October 10th by forumZFD called “Her and his history. Women and men deal with the past.” Students had chance to be more informed about the victims lives during the war, and their relationships to the audience, as well as the impact of their stories about last events.
Why is considering gender necessary when dealing with the past? Why is legal aid important for persons who survived sexual violence in armed conflict? Besides sexual violence in conflict, what are the other gender aspects important when dealing with the past? What is the importance of experiences and empirical knowledge transfer in the process of reconciliation? Why are women during the conflict regarded solely as victims? Are there actors who are opposing the stereotype of women as victims and men as perpetrators? How are they doing this? What other narratives of women’s and men’s struggles and activism are being neglected?
These are only some of the questions we had been talking about during the open discussion.
In this open discussion following persons were joined:
- Selma Korjenić is leading the programme of TRIAL International in BiH. Since 2005 Selma is working on topics related to wartime happenings in BiH, as well as rights of war victims and processes of transitional justice,
- Doc. dr.sc. Zlatiborka Popov-Momčilović is a professor of political sciences at the University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She published more than 60 articles dealing with the gender, activism, reconciliation, civil society and public role of religion,
- Nita Gojani is a freelance consultant. She has extensive experience on the topic of conflict related sexual violence, in particular in Kosovo, where she managed a joint UN Women and EU project on gender sensitive transitional justice.
Attending to open discussions could be very good proof, that IUS staff practice all methods of education, not only theoretical ways, but practical ones.
