PCRC works to advance human rights and transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina and throughout the region via various multifaceted approaches. Our cutting-edge approaches to human rights and transitional justice- including our arts-based initiatives and youth education programs- complement more traditional transitional justice mechanisms and human rights initiatives in the region. Our work in this arena focuses on education, historical remembrance, historical analysis, and truth-seeking. PCRC’s goals of creating and implementing processes of remembrance and memorialization are done in cooperation with leading organizations in the field, such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, the International Commission for Missing Persons and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, amongst others.
When participants from the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Fellowship Program visited Sarajevo, PCRC organized two panel sessions: one which focused on the work of the non-governmental sector in the area of interfaith cooperation, and another that focused on moral courage and its importance for reconciliation in post-conflict societies.
Each spring, PCRC cooperates with the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) to coordinate their annual visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through this program, students gain knowledge about the historical, political and social components that have culminated in the fragile state of BiH today.
PCRC’s President Velma Šarić and Vice President Leslie Woodward traveled to Osh, Kyrgyzstan to participate in an international symposium on the development of sustainable health-psychosocial support in emergency situations.
Each summer, PCRC cooperates with the New York University (NYU) Center for Global Affairs to coordinate the Bosnian leg of their annual visit to the former Yugoslavia. PCRC is responsible for arranging interviews, site visits, lectures, and conversations with representatives and organizations operating in Sarajevo, Bratunac, and Srebrenica.
Atlantic Initiative (AI), in coordination with the University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Political Science, the University of Colorado Denver (UCD) and Post-Conflict Research Center hosted the eight-week study-abroad program, “2010: State and Nation Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina”.