By Noura Wafeek Syam Trauma is a situation that most humanitarian workers, police, military and social and community workers working in the context of humanitarian crisis face. The term ‘trauma’ originates from the Greek [...]

By Elina Francesca Rivera During the Reconciliation session of the Symposium, Dr. Sabina Čehajić-Clancy addressed the importance of rebuilding intergroup relations and trust through emotional processes, rather than cognitive ones, to advance reconciliation. Learning [...]

By Kelly Rico I’ve been overcome with information and experiences here, so much so that it’s been hard to take account and make sense of it all in order to drill down on one [...]

By Emma Plant Bosnia was not torn apart by ‘ancient ethnic hatreds’. Yes – people were killed because they were Bošniak, Croat or Serb but the war began because of modern political agendas. Communism [...]

By Carl Vosloh I consider one of the most critical and detrimental factors that has stalled a nationwide process of truth-telling, healing and community building for the Bosnia and Herzegovinian society, is the lack [...]

By Laial Allaham Last week we went to visit to the well-known Srebrenica. We were inside the factory, which was the former base of the UN peacekeeping mission in BiH. In this factory thousands [...]

By Nathalia Contreras Pardo Today, on the last day of the Symposium, I am reflecting on how much I learned during these past two weeks. I realized that what I thought would be a mainly academic [...]

By William Beaupre One of the main reasons that I applied to the IPSI symposium on post-conflict transitions in Sarajevo was because I wanted to learn more on how the process of bringing a [...]

By Samantha Behlog As we discussed what constitutes ‘crimes against humanity’ during a lecture by Carolyn Edgerton on transitional justice, I reflected on my knowledge of the situation in Qatar in preparation for the [...]