Vesna Teršelič is a peace activist residing in Zagreb, who was one of the founders of the Anti-War Campaign of Croatia. In 1998, she became a joint recipient of the Right Livelihood Award along with Katarina Kruhonja of the Centre for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights, Osijek. She became director of Documenta — Center for Dealing with the Past. Her broad sphere of interest includes non-violent conflict transformation, human rights protection, social reconstruction, and reconciliation.
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Collecting, Sharing, Letting Be
Speaking about traumatic memory generally presupposes speaking about narrative creation. Articulation and re-telling are often perceived as weaving the canvases back after rupture, as filling the empty spaces left by the trauma. But are these the only effective ways to…