Course director: Vladimir Petrovic (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies)
The course rests on a UNDP-sponsored project, “Overcoming points of contention: transgenerational coping with the legacy of the Yugoslav armed conflicts of the 1990s.” It is a sequel to a Fall 2025 IUFU cours,e “Facing the Legacy of the Yugoslav Wars”. Just like the last time, Ukrainian and Balkan students are brought together to scrutinize present and future challenges in the Western Balkans. It zooms into those aspects of the Yugoslav Wars which are the main obstacle to bilateral relations in the region (Srebrenica, Operation Storm, Kosovo War), and looks for a breakthrough in the field of legal actions, museum studies, legal actions, documentation of crimes and artistic production aiming at sensitizing postwar society and allowing for cross-border interaction and intergenerational cooperation aimed at creating a more constructive surrounding in the Balkans. The course starts on January 16. Its UNDP component finishes at the end of February, and its IUFU component continues until the end of March 2026.