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Public Event: Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 Years after Dayton
The ERC Starting Grant Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” invites you to a roundtable public event:
Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 Years after Dayton: Achievements, Challenges, and
Transnational Diaspora Activism
November 19, 2015, 18:00 – 20:00,
MS.05, Mathematics and Statistics Building
There will be refreshments available between 18:00 and 18:20.
The General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina – better known as the Dayton Agreement (1995) – effectively ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, following genocide in Srebrenica, the worst mass atrocity committed in Europe since WWII. This roundtable will analyze lessons learned in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the past 20 years, and discuss the achievements and challenges vis-à-vis its diaspora living globally, peacebuilding, transitional justice, and European integration.
What lessons can we draw from the Dayton model for recent conflicts and the refugee crisis in Europe today?
Please join us for lively presentations and discussion with the panelists:
Dr. Maria Koinova, Reader at the University of Warwick and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Starting Grant “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty,” will be chairing the roundtable discussion. She is the author of Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States (UPENN, 2013), and of articles published in the European Journal of International Relations, International Political Science Review, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Political Sociology, and Review of International Studies, among others.
Dženeta Karabegović is a PhD Research Fellow in PAIS at the University of Warwick. Her research, funded by the “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” ERC Grant, focuses on Bosnian diaspora mobilization in Europe around political participation, remembrance, and transitional justice.
Dr. Waqar Azmi OBE is Chairman of the charitable initiative “Remembering Srebrenica” established in 2013 to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide in the UK, and to educate British society on this recent chapter of European history. Formerly Waqar was the UK Government’s Chief Diversity Adviser at the Cabinet Office and European Union (EU) Ambassador for Intercultural Dialogue.
Dr. Eric Gordy is Senior Lecturer in Politics of Southeast Europe at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) of University College London. His publications include the books The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives (1999) and Guilt, Responsibility and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia (2013).