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Presented by Academy of Bosnia
and Herzegovina in collaboration with Museum of Jewish Heritage
– A living Memorial to the Holocaust and advisory support
from Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
 “Genocide and
Aftermath: Rationalizing the Process of Truth and Reconciliation
in Bosnia and Herzegovina” a commemorative and policy development
event that commemorated the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica
Genocide, a modern human tragedy and a first genocide in Europe
after Holocaust.
The event took place on July 13, 2005 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
at Safra Hall, Museum of Jewish Heritage- A Living Memorial to
the Holocaust, 36 Battery Place, Battery Park City, New York,
NY 10280
This commemorative event raised awareness of the Srebrenica genocide
and tragic suffering of Bosniak population half a century after
European Holocaust.
Panel on Genocide brought together a working group of policy specialists,
policy makers, academics, public officials, civic society opinion
makers, and members of the diplomatic community with the purpose
to raise awareness about the group pathology and psychology of
the perpetrators, with a look toward future prevention.
Panel sensitized the public to the crimes of genocide and assessed
future actions necessary to provide a workable Truth and Reconciliation
platform that would help both B-H and the international community
to pursue a fully rationalized reconciliation process over the
next five years.
Edited transcript of the event is available at Carnegie Council
on Ethics and international Affairs website
Commemoration Participants
Keynote Speaker and Panelist:
Dr. Charles Ingrao
"Accepting the Truth: Why is it so Difficult?...so Necessary?”
Charles Ingrao is Professor of History at Purdue University and
Editor of The Austrian History Yearbook. Although he has published
seven books on the history of early modern and modern central
Europe, he has devoted himself since July 1995 to studying contemporary
nationalism and ethnic conflict throughout the region. During
that time he has made 25 research trips to the war zones of Slobodan
Milosevic, delivered over eighty public lectures to academic,
governmental and military audiences, and been a regular commentator
for print, radio and television media, including The News Hour
with Jim Lehrer (PBS). Over the past five years he has directed
the Scholars' Initiative, a consortium of over 250 scholars from
27 countries dedicated to confronting those major controversies
that continue to divide the peoples of the former Yugoslavia.
Panel Moderator
Mr. Roy Gutman
Roy Gutman is a Newsday’s Foreign Editor who has reported
on international affairs for more than three decades. From 1989
to 1994, he served as the Newsday European bureau chief, reporting
on the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, the unification of
Germany, and the violent disintegration of Tito's Yugoslavia.
His reports on "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia-Herzegovina,
including the first documented accounts of Serb-run concentration
camps, won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (1993),
the George Polk Award for foreign reporting, the Selden Ring Award
for investigative reporting, the Hal Boyle award of the Overseas
Press Club, the Heywood Broun Award of the Newspaper Guild, a
special Human Rights in Media award of the International League
for Human Rights, and other honors. In 2002, he was a co-winner
of the Edgar Allen Poe award of the White House Correspondents'
Association, and in 2003, the National Headliners First Prize
for Magazines.
Panelists
 Dr. Elazar
Barkan, Panelist
Elazar Barkan is professor of history and cultural studies at
Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles, California, and
the director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation.
Barkan's research interests focus on the role of history in contemporary
society and politics, with particular emphasis on the response
to gross historical crimes and injustices. He is the author recently
of The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical
Injustices (2000); Claiming the Stones/Naming the Bones: Cultural
Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity,
(an edited volume with Ronald Bush, Getty, 2003); Taking Wrongs
Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation (an edited volume with
Alexander Karn, Stanford University Press, forthcoming)
H.R.H. Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, Panelist
H.R.H. Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein is Ambassador and
Permanent Representative of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to
the United Nations. From June 1996 – June 2000, the prince
served as Jordan’s Deputy Permanent Representative during
which period he has undertaken a number of special responsibilities
relating to issues of international justice, women’s development
and United Nations peacekeeping. In September of 2002, Prince
Zeid was elected the first President of the Assembly of States
Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court,
governing body of the International Criminal Court, a post he
will hold for a three-year term. He is also the Chairman of the
Consultative Committee for the UNDP Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and
is, “Advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Operations”.
In February 2004, the prince was appointed by his government as
Jordan’s representative, and head of delegation, before
the International Court of Justice in the matter relating to the
wall being built by Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Prince Zeid has also chaired the informal working group on elements
for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity – part
of the work of the Preparatory Commission for the International
Criminal Court, and was the chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on
the Scope of Legal Protection under the Convention on the Safety
of United Nations and Associated Personnel. In the spring of 2004,
the prince also chaired the “Panel of Experts for the UN
Secretary-General’s Trust Fund to Assist States in the Settlement
of Disputes through the International Court of Justice”,
in the matter relating to boundary dispute between Benin and Niger.
Prince Zeid holds a B.A. in political science from The Johns Hopkins
University and Ph.D. in history from Cambridge University (Christ’s
College). He has served in the Jordanian military, and was a political
affairs officer with UNPROFOR in the former Yugoslavia from February
1994 to February 1996.
Dr. Mirza Kusljugic, Panelist
Dr. Mirza Kusljugic is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
and Permanent Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the
United Nations. From 1998 to 2001 he served as an elected member
of the parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina, House of Representatives.
From 1998 to 2000 he was a member of the Municipal Council of
Tuzla Municipality. Prior to entering politic and the diplomatic
service, Ambassador Kusljugic served as dean of the University
of Tuzla, School of Electrical Engineering and as associate professor,
Theory of Systems.
Donald S. Hays, Panelist
Donald S. Hays is currently assigned to the U.S. Institute for
Peace, until recently served as the Principle Deputy High Representative
in Bosnia Herzegovina (2001-2005) with a special focus on Economic
matters and local self governance. Prior to that assignment he
served as Ambassador for UN reform at the U.S. Mission to the
UN (1999-2001) From 1996-1999 Ambassador Hays was charge first
with the oversight of the European Bureau and then later with
the Department of State's response to the threat posed by international
terrorism as Director of Management Policy and Planning. Ambassador
Hays has served in Saigon, Cyprus, the Soviet Union, Pakistan
and West Africa (Freetown and Dakar) during his 30 year career.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, he served with the 101st
Airborne Division in Vietnam (1968-70) He received his BA in Political
Science from the University of California Santa Barbara, and did
post graduate work at both Georgetown University and later at
Princeton University. Awards: (US Military) Bronze Star w/oak
leaf cluster, Army Commendation Medal, Air Medal, Vietnam Service
and Vietname Campaign Medal; (Department of State) Presidential
Distinguished Service Award, State Department Distinguished Honor
Award , Department of State Superior Honor Award , Senior Performance
Pay Award, and Performance Pay Award
For additional information please contact Haris Hromic, Project
Director of Rationalizing the Process of Truth and Reconciliation
in Bosnia and Herzegovina at TRBH@academybh.org
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