International Summer School "Learning from the Past"

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The International Summer School “Learning from the past” provides an opportunity to undergraduate students, graduate students as well as young professionals to meet and study with people from different countries, cultures and academic disciplines, on a cosmopolitan campus in Sarajevo. This summer school commemorates the events by remembering and discussing the past atrocities but also by learning

from and moving beyond the tragic events in the past in order to achieve lasting peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region. A range of teaching and learning approaches and strategies will be utilized - delivered in a form of lectures, class discussions, workshops, field visits and conferences - and focused on comparative studies enabling the participants to learn in an experiential and cross-cultural context . This summer school will provide an opportunity to filter previously generated knowledge in regard to conflict resolution and further advance methodological tools and techniques applicable to research in the field of genocide, transitional justice, post-conflict resolution, peace-building, security studies, preventing diplomacy, international law, sociology, anthropology and other associated fields. Furthermore, it will promote active involvement of participants in order to better understand each other's ethnic background and challenge existing stereotypes and myths about the ‘Other’. The summer school will apply an integrative interdisciplinary perspective drawing on a variety of disciplinary approaches inherent to existent methodological frameworks of social sciences. Its overall aim is to capitalize from the previous academic and professional work and research relating to dealing with the past, transitional justice and reconciliation in post-conflict societies. The summer school aspires to give an overview of some of the most commonly used tools and techniques covered by disciplines related to dealing with the past and reconciliation in post-conflict societies. With the expertise of the lecturers from the region and beyond, the course will also discuss new methods in social sciences research relevant to this important field. The summer school is organized as a combination of lectures, workshops, excursions, fieldtrips, visiting official institutions, introduction to governmental and non-governmental organizations and participation in socio-cultural activities and events. The summer school is of particular significance to both participants interested in the region and those coming from the region itself, considering the recent history of violence perpetuated in this part of South Eastern Europe. As such, the program promotes both interdisciplinary and discipline-specific contents and methodological and ethical approaches to researching and facilitating a positive social change in post-conflict recovery and transitional justice context. Supplementary relevance of the course is to build regional capacity in the fields targeting professionals and scholars who are in a position to further transfer their knowledge and experience to their societies and local communities. The summer school will consist of three roughly two-hour classroom sessions on most of the days, followed by visits to BiH government ministries, international organizations, NGOs and a field visit to the Srebrenica Memorial Centre (Potocari) and a post-genocide community (the village of Klotjevac) in Eastern Bosnia. Each classroom session will be a mixture of lecture presentations and interactive discussions. The field trips will provide the participants with the opportunity to experience learning beyond the classroom, in a community setting, and obtain more intensive hands-on practice with methods discussed during the sessions. Attendance and active participation in all activities is compulsory during the whole summer school. In addition, all participants will be required to work on their own research proposals throughout the summer school and submit them at the end of the program. To ensure a common ground for the in-class discussions, participants are required to complete the required readings before the sessions (to be provided electronically by the lecturers). The certificate of successful completion of the Summer School will be issued upon accomplishing the assessment task comprising of:

- Attending the sessions and field trips
- Active participation during class sessions and field trips
- Research proposal for submission or a reflexive piece dealing with one or more aspects of the Summer School. Further details on these assessments will be provided by the lecturers on the first day of the summer school.

29/06/2017

Monday, 3 July, 2017 at 2 pm. Come and join us at the opening ceremony of our 4th international summer school!

Summer School | Learning from the Past – Bosnia and Herzegovina 1995 – 2017: Lessons Not Learned?

25/05/2017

You can finally find the tentative plan for the LFTP 2017 Summer School on our main webpage: https://lftp.ius.edu.ba/. There is still some little time left to apply. Hurry!

Summer School | Learning from the Past – Bosnia and Herzegovina 1995 – 2017: Lessons Not Learned? The main lectures will take place on campus of the International University of Sarajevo, building A and B, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

18/01/2017

For all your questions and additional information please contact us via Facebook, LFTP website or email. Registration starts: 06/02/2017.

Mladi i kultura sjećanja [11.12.2016.] - BHRT

16/12/2016

A documentary about youth and the culture of remembrance had it's TV premier last Sunday. If you would like to have a brief insert into what we did during LFTP 2016 take a look at the link. Enjoy!

Mladi i kultura sjećanja [11.12.2016.] - BHRT

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19/07/2016

Prof. Dr. David Pettigrew delivered a lecture titled "Obstacles to Reconciliation and Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina," 3 July 2016, for the LFTP 2016 Summer School.
Professor Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy and Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. He serves as a member of the Steering Committee for the Yale University Genocide Studies Program. Professor Pettigrew is also a Board Member and Secretary of the Bosnian-American Genocide Institute and Education Center in Chicago, Il, and a member of the International Team of Experts, Institute for Research of Genocide Canada. He is a member of KRUG 99 in Sarajevo.
Professor Pettigrew said he was "...grateful for the opportunity to participate in "Learning from the Past" at IUS this year," and that he was "especially touched by the students' enthusiastic reception of his lecture and by their thoughtful questions." He found that the students "were quite serious about exploring the role of transitional justice in rebuilding trust in Bosnia as a post-conflict society."

17/07/2016

Final days of the summer school.

Covered topics during the final week:
1. Conflict related sexual violence, court process (Ms. Ena Kazić)
2. Dealing with the past and memorialization (forumZFD)
3. Visit to Bosna Srebrena, Franciscan order in B&H, Religious and cultural sights of Sarajevo (Host prof. Dr. Fra Ivan Sarčević and CHwB guide Boris Trapara)
4. Visits: Tuzla, Village Klotjevac, Srebrenica, Memorial Center Potočari
5. The Psychology of conflicts - how we perceive conflicts and perpetuate them (Dr. Andreas Bock)
6. Obstacles to justice and reconciliation (Prof. David Pettigrew)
7. Reflections, debate, impressions, recommendations (Like/Improve). Closing ceremony.

Now it is time to reflect and work on the book of proceedings, its translation and finally publication. We will keep you posted!

28/06/2016

First week: Review
Topics:
1. From ethnic diversity to ethnic cleansing and genocide (Dr. Hariz Halilovich)
2. The Dayton Peace Agreement, Postdayton B&H (Dr. Zarije Seizovic)
3. Transitional Justice, Dealing with past, Transitional process in B&H, Genocide, war crimes and justice (Dr. Goran Simic)
4. Collective memories for in-group wrongdoings: Stories of victims and perpetrators (Ms. Alma Jeftic)
5. Workshop: Oral History (Ms. Elmina Kulasic)
6. Politics, religion and transitional justice (Dr. Dino Abazovic)
7. Transitional Justice vs. Reconciliation vs. dealing with the past (Dr. Nicolas Moll)
8. Workshop: Pedagogical tool on the culture of remembrance (Mr. Nerkez Opacin)
9. Visits: ICMP, UN-Sarajevo, OSCE-Sarajevo
10. Rebuilding Trust in a post-conflict society through heritage (CHwB)
11. Voicing the unspeakable: art and artists after genocide (Danis Fejzic, Ferida Durakovic, Faruk Sabanovic, Namik Kabil)

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Zabranjeni forum -Koža sve pamti! Since, da ili ne?! (23.06.2016)

24/06/2016

https://youtu.be/NrT-Gq27oXc (10 min)

Zabranjeni forum -Koža sve pamti! Since, da ili ne?! (23.06.2016) Label and copyright: Zabranjeno svako kopiranje video i/ili audio snimaka i postavljanje na druge kanale!

23/06/2016

Starting our fourth day with the morning session held by Dr. Abazovic talking about politics, religion and transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

21/06/2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L299jq87BNM

3rd International Summer School promo Learning from the past - Exploring the Role of Transitional Justice in Rebuilding Trust in a Post-conflict Society For more information visit: https://lftp.i...

Rector of IUS opened International summer school 2016: Learning from the past

21/06/2016

https://news.ius.edu.ba/news/rector-ius-opened-international-summer-school-2016-learning-past

Rector of IUS opened International summer school 2016: Learning from the past International Summer School: Learning from the past ( Exploring the Role of Transitional Justice in Rebuilding Trust in a Post-conflict Society) was officially opened t

19/05/2016

forumZFD, one of our partners, has their exhibition opening at the IUS Art Gallery on May 25th. The exhibition will be open until our closing ceremony, June 4th. See you there!

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