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Nidzara

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Ahmetasevic

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nidzara.ah AT gmail.com

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Nidzara

Position/Title

PhD, Independent researcher

Area of expertise

I am independent researcher, and focus of my research is on war crimes, post-war reconstruction and the role of the media in war and post-conflict societies. I have 20 years of experience as a journalist in Bosnia and Herzegovina who covered war crimes trials, stories about survivors and victims of war rape (man and women). Currently, I am conducting research on war crimes perpetrators in the Balkans.

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Teaching

Recent Publications

An estimated 2,000 children fought in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, sometimes in horrific conditions on the frontline, but their efforts to win special state benefits have been rejected., http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/bosnia-s-child-soldiers-abandoned-by-the-state, 2014

“Media Reform through Intervention: International Media Assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” (with Tarik Jusic), Policy brief on International Media Assistance in the Western Balkans, Working Paper 3, prepared in the framework of the Regional Research Promotion Programme in the Western Balkans (RRPP), Analitika – Center for Social Research, Sarajevo, <http://analitika.ba/en/publications/international-media-assistance-bosnia-and-herzegovina-lessons-learned>, 2013.

“Intervening in the Media Sector: Media Anarchy in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina,” Working Paper, Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz,  < http://www.suedosteuropa.uni-graz.at/en/publication/intervening-media-sector-media-anarchy-post-war-bosnia-and-herzegovina>, 2012.

Researching Media Assistance as a Tool of Democratization and State building in Post Conflict Societies – Lessons from the Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Peer Review), < http://www.globalmediajournal.de/ current-issue/>, 2012.

Govor mržnje: Metod političke propaganda, in Reči i nedela, Pozivanje ili podsticanje na ratne zločine u medijima u Srbiji 1991 – 1992 (The Methods of Political Propaganda, in Words and Crimes: Incitement to War Crimes through the Media in Serbia), Centar za tranzicione procese, Srbija, pp. 368 – 374, <http://www.tuzilastvorz.org.rs/html_trz/POCETNA/ RECI_NEDELA_LAT.pdf>, 2011.

Editor, History Overshadowed by Trivia: Regional Media Coverage of Radovan Karadžić arrest 2007 (www.bim.ba), Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, 2009.

Editor, In Pursuit of Justice: Guide to the War crimes Chamber of the Court of BiH (Vol. II) (www.bim.ba), Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, 2008.

“Pravda u tranziciji,” (Transitional Justice)  Center for Transitional Justice Belgrade, “Media and War Crimes – War with Pictures and Words”, No 10, pp. 12 – 18), < http:// www.pravdautranziciji.com/pages/article.php?id=1756.>, 2007.

Centar za ljudska prava – Proces ustavnih promjena u BiH: Medijska slika (Constitutional Changes in BiH: The Media Picture), DATE, <http://www.hrc.unsa.ba/projekti/Proces_ustavnih_promjena_u_BiH.pdf>, 2005.

“Media: The Business of Ethics, The Ethics of Business – Research on the Situation in BiH,” South East European Network for Professionalization of Media SEENPM, <http://portal.unesco.org/ci//en/ev.php-URL_ID=28756&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>., 2004.

Widespread sexual abuse of men during the war years remains off the agenda in Bosnia, with victims receiving little or no support,  http://www.justice-report.com/en/articles/the-last-taboo#sthash.MxoBibm3.dpufhttp://www.justice-report.com/en/articles/the-last-taboo, 2006

Book Chapters

“Media and Transitional Justice: Reporting on ICTY War Crimes Trials in Serbia.” (with Tanja Matic), in Clara Ramirez-Barat, ed.Beyond Outreach: Transitional Justice, Culture and Society. (New York: International Center for Transitional Justice).. 2013.