“Dealing with War-related Sexual Violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Rape, Silence and Denial”

Dr. Olivera Simić (Lecturer at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia) will present her research on the topic “Dealing with War-related Sexual Violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Rape, Silence and Denial”.  

Olivera Simić is a human rights activist and academic at the Griffith Law School, Australia. Born in Yugoslavia, she completed a Doctorate of Law at the University of Melbourne in 2011 and now teaches international law and transitional justice and lives in Brisbane. Her research engages with transitional justice, international peacekeeping gender and crime from an interdisciplinary perspective. Olivera has published in journals such as International Journal of Transitional Justice, Law Text Culture, Women’ Studies International Forum, Journal of International Women Studies, International Peacekeeping as well as in books and book chapters. Her latest collection, The Arts of Transitional Justice: Culture, Activism, and Memory after Atrocity (with Peter D Rush), has been published by Springer in 2013. Olivera's monograph Surviving Peace: A Political Memoir has been published by Spinifex in 2014. In 2013 Olivera was a nominee for the Penny Pether Prize for Scholarship in Law, Literature and the Humanities, and won the Peace Women Award from Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. In 2014 Olivera won the Vice Chancellor's Early Career Research Excellence Award.

The session will be facilitated by Dr. Martina Fischer, Programme Director for South-East Europe at Berghof Foundation.

Please give notice by September 22nd if you are interest in attending.

Title: Guest Lecture on the topic “Dealing with War-related Sexual Violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Rape, Silence and Denial”

Date: 25 September 2014, 15:00 – 16:00

Location: Berghof Foundation,  Altensteinstrasse 48a, 14195 Berlin (Dahlem)

Contact: Veronique Dudouet

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