The Advocacy Project (AP) recruits students to help marginalized communities tell their story and claim their rights.
Check out this short YouTube video AP Fellow Kelsey Bristow and I created following our attendance of the commemoration ceremony at Srebrenica-Potocari on July 11, 2009. I hope it will give everyone following my blog a better sense of what my experience on Saturday was like. Many thanks to Kelsey for her hard work on this!
Tags: BiH, Europe, genocide, July 11 2009, Kelsey Bristow, Potocari, Srebrenica
BOSFAM in Bosnia
Alison graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 2008 with a BS in Foreign Service. She majored in Russian and East European Politics, and received a certificate in Justice and Peace Studies.
Alison studied abroad in Warsaw, Poland and Berlin, Germany. While in Berlin, she was an intern at the Blaetter fuer deutsche und internationale Politik, a German-language political journal. Alison returned to Berlin her senior year with a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to conduct thesis research on the educational attainment levels of Turkish-German female students in Germany.
Alison has spent the past year with AP, first as an intern focusing on the Srebrenica Memorial Quilt project, and currently as AP’s Outreach Coordinator. Read more...
Alison Sluiter
Christina Hooson
Donna Harati
Fanny Grandchamp
Kelsey Bristow
Simran Sachdev
Susan Craig-Greene
Tiffany Ommundsen
Althea Middleton-Detzner
Carolyn Ramsdell
Jessica Varat
Lindsey Crifasi
Rebecca Gerome
Zachary Parker
Corrine Schneider
Rachel Brown
Rangineh Azimzadeh
Adam Nord
Annelieke van de Wiel
Juliet Hutchings
Kristina Rosinsky
Lucas Wolf
Chi Vu
Danita Topcagic
Heather Gilberds
Jes Therkelsen
Libby Abbott
Mackenzie Berg
Nicole Farkouh
Ola Duru
Paul Colombini
Raka Banerjee
Shubha Bala
Antigona Kukaj
Colby Pacheco
James Dasinger
Janet Rabin
Nicole Slezak
Shweta Dewan
Amy Offner
Ash Kosiewicz
Hannah McKeeth
Heidi McKinnon
Larissa Hotra
Jennifer Tucker
Hannah Wright
Krystal Sirman
Rianne Van Doeveren
Willow Heske
Thanks for sharing, Sue. I would be very interested to hear more about your work. Perhaps you can visit us in Tuzla next time you are in BiH?
I travel to Bosnia with the Healing Hands Network Charity where we work on a voluntary basis giving professional healing holistic therapies to these survivors of war and camps, to help ease the post traumatic stress they suffer. Thank you for this moving video. It shows why i go each year. These people are amazing and dignified and should never be forgotten.
It must have brought the reality of what happened on the march home to you with a blow to hear the young man talk about watching the death of his father and brother like that. Good you had kind company to provide some cushion of humanity to the experience.
Hi Alison, you both portrayed the circumstances very well. It really brings back memories of the commemoration and the tension in the air at the time. I remember hearing the young girl sing, her voice echoing, and everyone was absolutely quiet. Glad the numbers being identified are rising though, it allows for more people to have closure as you said, but definitely difficult to understand and grasp what it means for the families so many years later. I hope everyone at Bosfam is well. Please pass my love.
Thank you to all who have had a chance to view and comment on the video. Kelsey and I did a short interview with Beba Hadzic, BOSFAM’s Director, on the importance of Srebrenica and what it means to her. I will be sure to post this to my blog as well as YouTube once it is complete.
It is heartbreaking that we do not learn from history! Alison and Kelsey, thank you for your hard work and dedication to Srebrenica, Bosnia, it is truly appreciated.
Watching the simple, black clad, numbered coffins being carried by the men it hits me, again, it’s only us humans who behave in this unhuman way towards another.
Alison – The video really struck an emotional cord. Looking at the somber, grief-stricken faces brings new perspective to the situation in Srebrenica.