In progress: Olivera Simic, Life after Punishment and Escape Routes for War Criminals: Case studies from the Former Yugoslavia (Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming, 2026)
Forthcoming: Olivera Simic, Madam War Criminal: Biljana Plavsic, Serbia’s Iron Lady, Hurst, October 2025, https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/madam-war-criminal/
Forthcoming in 2026, “Narratives of Victimhood and Perpetration in Bosnia and Herzegovina” in Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform (MKS).
Forthcoming in 2026, “Mass Rapes in War and in Peace: Reflection on Sofi Oksanen’s book, Same River Twice, Putin’s War on Women” in Journal of International Women Studies.
BalkanInsight, 13 October 2025, “With Proposed Law Change, Serbia Risks Even Greater leniency for Rapists”, https://balkaninsight.com/2025/10/13/with-proposed-law-change-serbia-risks-even-greater-leniency-for-rapists/.
BalkanInsight, 25 September 2025,“Addressing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, Ukraine Draws Lessons from Bosnia,” https://balkaninsight.com/2025/09/25/addressing-conflict-related-sexual-violence-ukraine-draws-lessons-from-bosnia/.
The Conversation, 1 September 2025, “How can the International Criminal Court achieve justice for women?”, https://theconversation.com/how-can-the-international-criminal-court-achieve-justice-for-women-263797.
The Conversation, 5 June 2025, “Getting away with it … sort of. How a dictator and a fugitive Nazi advanced international human rights law”, https://theconversation.com/getting-away-with-it-sort-of-how-a-dictator-and-a-fugitive-nazi-advanced-international-human-rights-law-2572
AVID Reader, Workshop “Writing Trauma,” 31 January 2026, forthcoming, https://avidreader.com.au/pages/13087-WritingTrauma-OliveraSimic.
AVID Reader, Workshop “Writing Trauma”, 13 September 2025, https://avidreader.com.au/pages/11387-OliveraSimic-WritingTrauma
AVID Reader, Workshop “Writing Trauma”, 8 February 2025, 2025,https://avidreader.com.au/pages/9414-OliveraSimic-WritingTrauma
AVID Reader, Workshop “Writing Trauma”, 12 October 2024, https://avidreader.com.au/pages/9414-WritingTrauma-OliveraSimic
(you can contact me on my email if you are interested in organising online workshop about writing trauma)
Olivera Simic, “Sexual Violence in War – an analysis of cases before courts in Serbia”, Humanitarian Law Center, 26 November 2024, https://www.hlc-rdc.org/en/publications/sexual-violence-in-war-an-analysis-od-casese-before-courts-in-serbia-2003-2024/
Kulture secanja u dijalogu, podcast, https://www.kulturesecanja.org/category/podkast/
BalkanInsight, 2 October 2024, “Unrepentant War Criminal Tells of Life on the Run in Bosnia’s Forests”, https://balkaninsight.com/2024/10/02/unrepentant-war-criminal-tells-of-life-on-the-run-in-bosnias-forests/
The Conversation, 29 August 2024, “If something can happen once, it can happen again”, https://theconversation.com/if-something-can-happen-once-it-can-happen-again-dennis-glovers-reading-of-history-sounds-an-alarm-about-the-present-236306
BalkanInsight, 24 June 2024, “On Facebook and TV, Balkan War Criminals Find Channels to Reintegrate”, https://balkaninsight.com/2024/06/24/on-facebook-and-tv-balkan-war-criminals-find-channels-to-reintegrate/
Buka, 19 Juni 2024, “Zaustavimo sutnju: ujedinimo se protiv seksualnog nasilja u ratu“.
Buka, 18 Juni 2024, “Ispovijest Ruskinje na privremenom boravku u BiH. Pucanj u prazno”, https://6yka.com/bih/ispovijest-ruskinje-na-privremenom-boravku-u-bih-pucanj-u-prazno?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2tyC74xxzS_Pz9E8hQzDLheY37TJtzz8mLvzQLF7wCAh9qymHVTYCqNCo_aem_aEoyJ_0tFWgdeRoW-fo8HQ
Buka, 5 Juni 2024, Salman Ruzdi, Noz: Meditacije nakon pokusaja ubistva” https://6yka.com/kolumne/salman-ruzdi-noz-meditacije-nakon-pokusaja-ubistva
My interview on sexual violence in war, its consequences and challenges for prosecution. https://x.com/simic_olivera/status/1761153914676953342?s=20
In this video I am explaining how sentencing wartime sexual violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina is still lenient and inconsistent. Analysis done with Mersudin Pruzan, state prosecutor for TRIAL International. https://trialinternational.org/latest-post/punishing-wartime-sexual-violence/
BalkanInsight, 21 February 2024, “Ethnocentric Yugoslav War Commemorations Taint the Future, Experts Warn, https://balkaninsight.com/2024/02/21/ethnocentric-yugoslav-war-commemorations-taint-the-future-experts-warn/
Mersudin Pruzan and Olivera Simic, TRIAL International, the sentencing policy analysis, titled “Punishing Wartime Sexual Violence”, 28 December 2023, https://trial.ba/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Sentencing-Policy-2023-ENG.pdf
New book: Olivera Simic, Lola’s War: Rape Without Punishment (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-1942-0
BalkanInsight, 10 January 2024, “Croatian War Convict Could Soon Erase Their Criminal Records – Legally”, https://balkaninsight.com/2024/01/10/croatian-war-convicts-could-soon-erase-their-criminal-records-legally/
The Conversation, 6 December 2023, “An inside look at the dangerous, painstaking work of collecting evidence of suspected war crimes in Ukraine” https://theconversation.com/an-inside-look-at-the-dangerous-painstaking-work-of-collecting-evidence-of-suspected-war-crimes-in-ukraine-214725
BalkanInsight, 30 October 2023, “Inheriting Trauma: How Bosnia’s War Still Torments the Country’s Youth” https://balkaninsight.com/2023/10/30/inheriting-trauma-how-bosnias-war-still-torments-the-countrys-youth/
Book launch Lola’s War, AVID Reader, Brisbane, 20 October 2023, https://www.avidreader.com.au/pages/8315-OliveraSimic-LolasWarRapeWithoutPunishment
BalkanInsight, 22 September 2023, “Taking a Field Trip into Croatia’s ‘Unwanted Memories’ of Wartime, Branka Vierda and Olivera Simic, https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/22/taking-a-field-trip-into-croatias-unwanted-memories-of-wartime/
BalkanInsight, 14 September 2023, “The Remorseful War Criminal: How a Bosnian Convict’s Apologies Were Ignored” https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/14/the-remorseful-war-criminal-how-a-bosnian-convicts-apologies-were-ignored/
The Conversation review of Tomaz Jardim’s book Ilse Koch on Trial: Making the Bitch of Buchenwald (Harvard University Press), 6 September 2023 https://theconversation.com/no-woman-in-the-usual-sense-ilse-koch-the-bitch-of-buchenwald-was-a-holocaust-war-criminal-but-was-she-also-an-easy-target-203960
BalkanInsight, 1 August 2023, “Defending the Motherland: The Women Fighting for Ukraine”, Anastasia Chupis and Olivera Simic, https://balkaninsight.com/2023/08/01/defending-the-motherland-the-women-fighting-for-ukraine/
BalkanInsight, 25 July 2023, ‘Doing Time: How a Bosnian War Criminal’s Jailing Affected His Family’ https://balkaninsight.com/2023/07/25/doing-time-how-a-bosnian-war-criminals-jailing-affected-his-family/
Buka Magazine, 13 July 20023, ‘Swearing genocide’ https://6yka.com/kolumne/swearing-genocide
BalkanInsight, 14 June 2023, ‘Once a War Criminal, Always a War Criminal?’ https://balkaninsight.com/2023/06/14/once-a-war-criminal-always-a-war-criminal/
The Conversation review of Alexa Hagerty’s book Still Life with Bones, 17 April 2023 https://theconversation.com/reading-the-bones-of-the-dead-the-painstaking-painful-process-of-returning-genocide-victims-to-their-families-202631
BalkanInsight, 12 April 2023, ‘Effective Impunity: How a Wartime Rapist Avoided Punishment in Bosnia’ https://balkaninsight.com/2023/04/12/effective-impunity-how-a-wartime-rapist-avoided-punishment-in-bosnia/
The Conversation article on impunity and wartime rape, 10 March 2023, ‘Lola waited 25 years for her wartime rapist to be convicted. But he is still not in jail’ https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-lola-waited-25-years-for-her-wartime-rapist-to-be-convicted-but-he-is-still-not-in-jail-199765Gave a talk at Vrije University, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Amsterdam, 5 May 2023.
Gave a talk at KU Leuven, Faculty of Law and Criminology, 4 May 2023.
Gave a talk at Vrije University, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Amsterdam, 5 May 2023.
Gave a talk at the workshop ‘Combating Conflict-Related Sexual Violence – Comparative Insights on International and National Capacities’, 12-13 May 2023 at the Freie Universität Berlin.
Gave a talk at Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, 14 June 2023.
Gave a talk at Arts and Human Rights Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 24 June 2023.