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-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.