The Srebrenica Monument

17 September 2020, 17.00-19.30 hrs
(followed by a simple shared dinner)

This presentation is part of the cultural program See You in The Hague, a multifaceted narrative about the ambitions and reality of The Hague as International City of Peace and Justice.

Erna Rijsdijk (lecturer military ethics, Defence Academy), Otto Spijkers (professor of international law, Wuhan University), Sabina Tanovic (architect, active in Memorial Committee Nationaal Monument Srebrenica Genocide '95), Eliane Bots (artist).

Followed by a discussion with contributions by the online and offline audience. Moderator: Leila Prnjavorac

On the day of the commemoration, the mayor of the City of The Hague announced his full support to a Srebrenica Monument. The event Stroom organizes on 17 September aims at bringing to the surface the key ideas and feelings that should be included in the process of creating such a monument. Besides artists, experts from different disciplines - mainly international law, military history, and policy making - are invited to reflect on a number of key questions. What is the form and function that such a monument should take? What are the lessons learned from similar monuments and from current iconoclasm? What is the impact of monuments today? How best to label public space in The Hague, the International City of Peace and Justice, as a space for visual dialogue on peace and justice-related topics? What are the boundaries of international law and the national legal systems in order to better understand the Dutch involvement in Srebrenica? Furthermore, we hope to touch upon the role of trauma in creating a better understanding for and identifying the conditions that enable extremist developments within society that eventually could lead to genocide.

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