“Now is the time to act. Not in six months, because we will be at war.”
With this stark warning about the danger of a return to armed conflict in Bosnia, Emir Suljagić – Director of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial Center – opens the Aegis Trust’s new 3-part podcast series ‘Peace at risk in Bosnia’.
Presented by Aegis founder and CEO Dr James Smith, the series unpacks the roots, context and potential solutions for the crisis now engulfing Bosnia and Herzegovina, 26 years after the genocide at Srebrenica which Emir survived as a 17-year-old translator for UN peacekeepers.
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Who you’ll hear from
Alongside Emir Suljagić, the series features Tatjana Milovanović (Program Director for the Post-Conflict Research Center in Sarajevo), Hikmet Karčić (Genocide Scholar and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Islamic Tradition of Bosniaks in Sarajevo) and Jasmin Mujanović (political scientist and analyst of southeast European and international affairs).
How your voice can help
On December 10th, Milorad Dodik – leader of the Bosnian Serbs – finalised a plan for Republika Srpska to break away from Bosnia and re-establish the army which committed the genocide at Srebrenica, where more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were murdered in July 1995. As you will hear in the podcast, Bosniaks across the country are now preparing themselves for the worst.
It’s a desperate situation, but war is preventable. And using your voice, right now, could help stop it.
Depending on where you live, please download one of our template letters below now. Then personalise and send it to your elected representatives.
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* Template letter to use in the US
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* Template letter to use in the EU and other NATO member countries
* Template letter to use in the rest of the World
It’s the middle of the festive season and everyone is busy – but by writing to your elected representatives today, you could help focus your government on a set of concrete steps it could and should take to stop Bosnia’s break-up and prevent armed conflict.
This is a moment when writing an email could save many lives.
To find out more about the crisis in Bosnia through bonus content for the podcast series, and to explore peacebuilding work by the Aegis Trust in other parts of the World, please visit our channel by clicking the button below or going to podcast.championhumanity.com.
The podcast series is available free of charge, but for a small monthly subscription you can access much more – and help to support our work.
