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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 Webinar on the same topic)

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/

Olivera Simic, “Celebrating” Srebrenica Genocide: Impunity and Indoctrination as Contributing Factors to the Glorification of Mass Atrocities” Journal of Genocide Research (published online 1 February 2024)

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-199765

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.