As part of the commemoration of the twenty-sixth anniversary of the genocide in and around Srebrenica, the University of Sarajevo, the Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law of the University of Sarajevo, the Institute of History of the University of Sarajevo and the University of Tuzla published a collection of papers from the International Scientific Conference entitled GENOCIDE OVER
FOR BOSNIACHES, SREBRENICA 1995-2020: Causes, proportions and consequences, which was held on October 19, 2020 in Sarajevo.
The collection contains 39 papers in which new research and findings are presented, which elaborate the results of research on the events in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period 1992‒1995 from an interdisciplinary, i.e. socio-political, historical, sociological, psychological, demographic aspect. Special value is also given by works that thematize socio-political consequences after 1995. Due to the volume of scientific works, the collection is divided into two equally
a valuable and significant volume. The concept of content structure is systematized into six thematic units. The collection begins with a foreword by prof. Ph.D. Rifat Škrijelj, Rector of the University of Sarajevo, and ends with the Conclusions from the Conference, signed on behalf of the Scientific Committee by academician, prof. Ph.D. Mirko Pejanović.
"We believe that by publishing such works, we fulfill one of the obligations of the academic community, to educate the young generation on the basis of exact evidence and essential facts, and remind the public of the fundamental values of human life", he points out, among other things, in the preface to the collection of prof. Ph.D. Rifat Škrijelj.
The collection was edited by dr. sc. Muamer Džananović, Ph.D. sc. Zilha Mastalić-Košuta and others. sc. Merisa Karović-Babić - research associate of the Institute for Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law, University of Sarajevo. The editors in the introduction to the collection emphasize that the collection represents an extremely important contribution to the scientific understanding of the intentions, causes, goals, scale and consequences of the committed genocide as well as other crimes against protected values.
international law.
The first promotion of the collection will be held on June 29, 2021 in the Ceremonial Hall of the Rectorate of the University of Sarajevo, and promotions are also planned in Tuzla (July 5) and Potočari (July 8).