UNSAJDER | Responsibility for the Future | Ep03 | Niké Wentholt

Following the International Scientific Conference “Srebrenica 30 Years After the Genocide: Memory, Responsibility and the Challenges of Denial”, the University of Sarajevo produced a podcast dedicated to commemorating the 30th anniversary of the genocide in and around Srebrenica. Across six episodes, we speak with distinguished scholars and researchers who took part in the Conference.

In the third episode, Tina Kalinić, Senior Assistant at the Academy of Performing Arts, University of Sarajevo, hosts Niké Wentholt.

Niké Wentholt is an assistant professor at the University of Humanistic Studies. For the project Dialogics of Justice she studies how claimaints in the Netherlands seek recognition for institutional injustice. She cooperates with Dutch societal partners to explore how the project's insights on recognition and transformative justice can help improve repair processes. Specifically, she studies (often together with colleague researcher Alma Mustafić) how Dutch involvement in the genocide in Srebrenica is remembered and repaired - especially when it is not. She has completed her PhD project at the University of Groningen. Her dissertation was titled: 'Overcoming History, Becoming European? Politics of the Past and EU Accession in Serbia and Bulgaria'. It included field research in Bulgaria and Serbia. For the OSCE she designed and conducted a study on the (ab)use of history by extremist right-wing and jihadist groups in Serbia. She holds a Master of Science degree in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford and completed her undergraduate studies in History at the University of Groningen.