12 Aug From Srebrenica to Gaza, from Legitimization to Denial — on KROKODIL YouTube Channel
The conversation “From Srebrenica to Gaza, from legitimization to denial” from the 18th KROKODIL festival, is now available on the KROKODIL YouTube channel.
Systemic and structural violence that culminates in genocide is a complex phenomenon that involves at least ten steps of preparation, execution, and denial.1 A key component of these processes is language — the way it is used to manipulate real collective feelings of fear, anger, or humiliation so that the crime is not only justified but also motivated. Listen to the discussion about these processes, which also happen today as wars continue across our planet, in the video linked in the profile description.
Participants in the conversation:
Ger Duijzings — the renowned Dutch anthropologist and expert in genocide studies, who in his research has focused especially on the Srebrenica genocide and the narratives that prepared this crime. Professor Duijzings currently teaches at the European College of Natolin and at the University of Regensburg. He was a member of the Srebrenica Research Team (NIOD) and participated in the Leadership Research Team at the ICTY. He has directed his extensive field experience and knowledge toward studying the case of genocide in Gaza.
Dubravka Stojanović — a historian and one of the most important voices of critical thought in our country, recipient of the Peace Award from the Belgrade Center for Peace and Democracy (2011) for many years of work on reconciliation in Southeast Europe through the reform of history education.
Olga Manojlović Pintar — senior research associate at the Institute of Contemporary History of Serbia and a specialist in the culture of memory, whose work analyzes how historical consciousness is created (or erased) through monuments and identities.
The discussion is moderated by Snežana Stanković, a researcher whose work addresses war crimes, genocide, and sexual violence in war, with a focus on the Holocaust and the genocide against Bosniaks during the 1990s war in Bosnia.
Ger Duijzings visited Belgrade thanks to the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
1 Gregory H. Stanton – Ten Stages of Genocide, 1987.
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