SELS Sarajevo on International Criminal Law and Genocide

[PARTNERS - BH TELECOM]

ELSA Sarajevo would like to thank BH Telecom for the support in organizing Summer ELSA Law School 2022!

[PARTNERS - BH TELECOM]

BH Telecom is the leading telecom operator in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has provided high quality and the most up-to-date services in the field of telecommunications to its users.

It has a very serious strategic approach to corporate responsibility knowing they are a part of the fast evolving industry and making the best efforts to offer innovated services, so contributing to the well-being of society as a whole.

Thanks to its managing, having their users on the first place, implementing new technologies and making good business decisions, BH Telecom has proved to be the best provider of telecommunication services in spite of a large-scale competition in the telecommunications market.

Its uniqueness, tradition, comprehensive service offer and fast business development have made them recognizable in the telecommunications market.

We thank BH Telecom for recognizing the importance of supporting youth organizations!

[PRESENTING LECTURERS]

Monica Hanson Green is the author of the first Genocide Denial Report of the Srebrenica Memorial Center. Upon moving to Bosnia and Herzegovina from the United States of America, Hanson Green started her Master in Social and Political Sciences at the International University of Sarajevo. Her Master thesis was titled “Russian Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans: Performative Soft Power in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina”. Upon graduation, Hanson Green started working at the Srebrenica Memorial Center primarily as a researcher but has also done some translation and worked on various projects.

[PRESENTING LECTURERS]

Hasan Nuhanović was an interpreter/translator for UNPROFOR’s contingent Dutchbat III who has actively campaigned for the accurate establishment of justice and truth in relation to the Srebrenica genocide during the Bosnian war as a survivor of the genocide himself. After many years of trial, Nuhanović won an appeal against the Dutch Government in Dutch civil court with the verdict stating that the Dutchbat and in so the Netherlands was responsible for handing over his family members to the Bosnian Serb Army. Due to this, the Dutch State is considered to have been involved in the genocide and in the violation of fundamental human rights. This was an exceptionally important case in the context of international law and the international community. Nuhanović has also played a key role in the establishment of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potočari and works closely with the Mothers of Srebrenica and the Women of Srebrenica amongst other relevant organizations of the Srebrenica genocide victim survivors and relatives.

[PRESENTING LECTURERS]

Hamid Sabi is an internationally renowned London based lawyer with great experience in the fields of human rights, litigation and arbitration. Notably, he has been involved with multiple international tribunals. Sabi was Counsel and Rapporteur during the Iran Tribunal, an independent people’s tribunal designated for the investigation of the crimes against humanity committed against political prisoners of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 1980s. Sabi also acted as Counsel in the China Tribunal and is also involved with the on-going Uyghur Tribunal.

[PRESENTING LECTURERS]

Dr. Hariz Halilović is a Professor at the RMIT University in Melbourne at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies as well as an anthropologist and writer. He has received many accolades for his work and perhaps most notably for his book “Places of Pain: Forced Displacement, Popular Memory and Trans-local Identities in Bosnian War-torn Communities”. The book explores how identity, memory and place are connected by looking at the case of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This book as well as a plethora of his other work and research has revolved around fields such as migration studies, memory studies, human rights, conflict and peace building and so on.

[PRESENTING LECTURERS]

Lord Iain Bonomy is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland as well as former Senator of the College of Justice. He was also a Judge in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for five years.
Amongst the many high-profile cases of the ICTY, Lord Bonomy notably presided over the trial of Milan Milutinović and over the preparations of the trial of Radovan Karadžić. Since 2020 he has been a Judge to the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) that was established as a continuation of the work of the ICTY as well as the International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda.

[PRESENTING LECTURERS]

Dr. Edina Bećirević is a professor at the University of Sarajevo in the scope of the Faculty of Criminal Justice, Criminology and Security Studies. Aside from her work with a plethora of international organizations, she is the co-founder of the Atlantic Initiative - Center for Security and Justice Research in Bosnia and Herzegovina which is a non-profit NGO whose goal is to initiate and encourage the debate surrounding the various steps and aspects of Bosnia and Herzegovina's integration into NATO and the EU. Most notably, she is the author of "Genocide on the Drina River" and her work has mostly revolved around subjects of genocide, transitional justice and extremism, all of which she has published works on. More recently she has done research on the subject of malign foreign influences and reciprocal radicalization and has also authored opinion pieces for notable media organizations and outlets such as the Intercept, the Institute for War and Peace Reporting and Euronews.

[PRESENTING LECTURERS]

Valery Perry has been doing extensive research in southeast Europe for over twenty years, particularly in relation to peace and conflict studies, state buidling and democratization, nationalism, international relations and similar topics with a particular focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Balkans. She has also worked with various organizations such as Democratization Policy Council, the European Center for Minority Issues, the Public International Law and Policy Group, the NATO Stabilization Force and various NGOs. Valery Perry has a broad repertoire of published works including books, such as “Extremism and Violent Extremism in Serbia: 21st Century Manifestations of an Historical Challenge” and “State-Building and Democratization in Bosnia and Herzegovina”. She also created the documentary film “Looking for Dayton”.

A month-long application period officially ended on April 17th!

Thank you to all the applicants who chose Sarajevo for their destination this summer! ❤

We are very pleased with the number and variety of applications we recieved but that also means that the selection process will be very difficult for us.

All applicants will be notified about the final selection on April 25th.

[PRESENTING LECTURERS]

Andrew Cayley is an English and Welsh Queens Counsel and has been the Chief Inspector of Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate appointed by the Attorney General since April of 2021. He has been involved with the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia as the International Co-Prosecutor, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court as Senior Trial Attorney. In his work in relation to the ICTY, as Senior Trial Attorney, he was responsible for the case against Ratko Mladić as well as the first prosecution of the Kosovo Liberation Army members.

[PRESENTING LECTURERS]

Sonja Biserko is a former diplomat for ex-Yugoslavia, campaigner for human rights as well as founder and president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. Biserko’s work has and still revolves around human rights issues in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, specifically in relation to Serbia and Kosovo. This is majorly in regards to threats and endangered rights of minorities, the denial of historical facts and records as well as the still-prevalent nationalist agenda in Serbia and the whole region. The main goals and aims of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, which Biserko is founder and president of, include protection of fundamental human rights (especially in regards to ethnic minorities and marginalized groups), suppression of the nationalist agenda, advocacy for the accountability for war crimes committed during the recent conflicts as well as Serbia’s European integration. She has received recognition and many awards for her work in regards to issues of human rights.