New Seminar for teachers: The Bosnian War and the Srebrenica Genocide 30 Years After

Publish Date:20 Juni 2025

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At the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, also called the "Srebrenica-Potočari Memorial and Cemetery for the Victims of the 1995 Genocide", flowers left by a visitor lay on the names of some of the more than 6000 Bosnian Muslims killed by Bosnian Serbs in the Srebrenica area in July 1995.

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The Bosnian War and the Srebrenica Genocide 30 Years After

(Please note: The seminar will be held in Danish.)

Humanity in Action Denmark is pleased to announce our seminar for teachers, taking place in Copenhagen on October 3, 2025.

Scroll down to see detailed program of the day and how to register.

The war in Bosnia in the 1990s was a bloody conflict between the country’s ethnic groups: Serbs, Croats and Muslims. The war, which lasted over three and a half years, cost the lives of more than 100,000 people and was characterized by massacres, rapes, forced displacement, concentration camps and torture. In the town of Srebrenica, up to 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in a massacre that has since been characterized as genocide.

The war and the genocide in Srebrenica are close to us in time and geography.  In this course, we will learn about what happened during the conflict, who the key players were, and what the status is now 30 years later. Along the way, we hear testimonies from Srebrenica, we meet researchers who deal with the subject and we hear from a former judge at the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, who talks about the judicial settlement after the wars in the 1990s.

Participation in the course is free of charge and is organized with support from the Hermod Lannung Foundation.

This year marks 30 years since the Srebrenica genocide, the largest massacre on European soil since the Holocaust. As an organization founded on the imperative to educate about genocide, Humanity in Action is committed to ensuring that the memory of Srebrenica lives on—not only in words but in action.

When and where

Date: Friday October 3, 2025
Time: 9.30-15.30
Location: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
Language: Danish

Registration

Registration deadline: September 1, 2025
(As space is limited, seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis). Virtual participation is possible. Please register via this link.

Program

9:30-10:00: Check-in. Coffee and tea will be served.
10.00-10.15: Welcome and introduction to the day’s theme and program
10:15-10:45: Testimonies from the Bosnian Genocide by Murat Zubcevic. TBA
11.00-11.45: Tea Sindbæk Andersen, talks about the war and genocide in former Yugoslavia.
Tea Sindbæk Andersen is an associate professor of East European Studies at the University of Copenhagen and works especially with Yugoslavia’s recent history, use of history and cultural and collective
memory.
11:45-12:30: A light lunch will be served
12.30-13.15: Frederik Harhoff talks about the legal settlement after the wars in the 1990s. Frederik Harhoff is a professor of international law at SDU and former judge at the international war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
13.15-14.00: Christian Axboe Nielsen talks about the Dayton Accords – 30 years later. How do you make peace? What is the current status of the conflicts between the factions in the former Yugoslavia? Christian Axboe Nielsen is an associate professor at the Department of Culture and Society at Aarhus University and he has worked with war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Balkan wars through his work at ICTY and the International Criminal Court.
14.00-14.15: Coffee break
14:15-15:00: TBA
15.00-15.30: Presentation of teaching material, last questions and thank you for today.

The seminar is organized by Humanity in Action Denmark in collaboration with DIIS (Danish Institute for International Studies) and is supported by the Hermod Lannung Foundation. The seminar is held as part of the commemoration of the 30 years since the genocide in Srebrenica.