After the successful international scientific conference entitled "Genocide of Bosniaks, Srebrenica 1995‒2020: Causes, Scales and Consequences", which was held in Sarajevo last year, today's meeting in the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina began preparations for holding the next conference, which is planned for October 2022.
"Given that the first conference was held in Sarajevo, the next conference is planned to be held in Tuzla. The next scientific conference should for the first time talk about Srebrenica from a new perspective, from the perspective of the consequences, but also the future of Srebrenica, and the perspective of further social-economic-economic development," said the director of the Institute for Researching Crimes Against Humanity and International Law at the University of Sarajevo. Rasim Muratović.
"Last year's conference was a grand gathering that brought together the most important people in this field in the region and as a result of which the University of Sarajevo, the Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law of the University of Sarajevo, the Institute of History of the University of Sarajevo and the University of Tuzla announced an extremely important collection of scientific works", said the prime minister of the Tuzla Canton, Kadrija Hodžić, and added that the Government will certainly support the holding of the conference next year within its capabilities.
"We are currently preparing the Budget of the Republic of Macedonia for the next year, and this is the right time to receive this kind of input, so that when preparing the Budget, we would look at our possibilities and try to find the means to help maintain this project," said Prime Minister Hodžić.
As it was said today, the second conference is planned to be dedicated to Srebrenica and its development. Demographic and economic development, international relations, and building trust in the Srebrenica area would be discussed through case studies. As a preparation for the Conference, it is planned that case studies will be done at the beginning of next year, so that they will be ready for the preparation and organization of the conference in October.
At today's meeting, the composition of the Organizational and Scientific Committee of the Conference was also discussed.
In addition to Prime Minister Hodžić, today's meeting was attended by Minister of Finance Vedran Lakić and Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth Zlatan Muratović.