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Adisa Čakanović is a Bosnian storyteller, memory activist, and 2024 Humanity in Action Amsterdam Fellow. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in the Erasmus Mundus Euroculture MA program, where she explores questions of memory, trauma, and feminist resistance in post-genocide Bosnia and Herzegovina. Deeply connected to the legacy of the Srebrenica genocide through her family history, Adisa focuses on how women—particularly the Mothers of Srebrenica—use storytelling to preserve memory, seek justice, and challenge silence.
During her Amsterdam Fellowship, she developed the Srebrenica Flower Action Project, a personal initiative that uses symbolic imagery and digital storytelling to promote remembrance and solidarity. The project invites reflection on how small acts of memory can carry powerful emotional and political weight.
Adisa’s broader interests include transitional justice, digital memory activism, and the role of women in post-conflict societies. Her work emphasizes the emotional and symbolic power of testimony and the need to center survivors’ voices in both local and transnational remembrance. She envisions memory not only as an act of looking back—but as a political and ethical responsibility to the future.
Updated June 2025