Niké Wentholt joined the Ukraine Legal Network (ULN) for their capacity-building training in November 2025. For the two-day event, around twenty Ukrainian legal experts and practitioners from around Europe came together in Amsterdam to together build their knowledge on the possibility for compensation for Ukrainian victims of Russian agression. Niké was invited as panelist to […]
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Restitution as Restoration and Transformation
Leah Niederhausen wrote an entry on restitution as both a restorative and transformative concept for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict.
Lees verder5/3/2025 – ECHO: Lezingenavond Bearing Witness
On Wednesday, March 5th, Platform POST organized the lecturenight ‘ECHO’ in the midst of the exhibition Bearing Witness at POST, Arnhem. This exhibition brings together works by artists from (post-)conflict areas with stories from veterans and their moral doubts about participating in various UN missions. Together, they show how events that may be historically defined still […]
Lees verder10/12/2024 – Human Library: Doe mee met meer meerstemmigheid!
On December 10, 2024 we organized this event together with Disability Studies in Nederland at the University of Humanistic Studies. The Human Library offers a platform for people to share their unique, multivoiced stories about issues of injustice, recognition, and repair. The event took place on Human Rights Day. One week prior was the International Day […]
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Podcast Dialoog: De Geschiedenis is voorbij, de Dialoog niet.
7/4/2025 ‘De Geschiedenis is voorbij, de Dialoog niet’ – Podcast Dialoog
In this podcast episode by Stichting Dialoog NJI, Nicole Immler discusses the impact of trauma and the importance of engaging in dialogue. This is difficult, but according to Immler, you don’t always have to agree to make progress. Listening and self-reflection are key.
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Finding the Truth but Ending the Conversation? How Dutch Civil Court Cases on the Srebrenica Genocide Shaped the Space for Reparation
Niké Wentholt and Alma Mustafić wrote a chapter on repair for the Srebrenica genocide in the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law.
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‘Unburden us and them’: encountering ‘the other’ in meetings between Bosnian genocide survivors and Dutch UN veterans
The Dutch government has offered Dutchbat 3 veterans and their partners to return to Srebrenica and meet with women survivors of war and genocide. Siri Driessen, Jeannette van Brenk, Nicole Immler and Eric Vermetten aim to identify which conditions need to be met to make them meaningful for the participants.
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Opinion piece on learning how to demonstrate and how they do it in Serbia
20/03/2025 ‘Demonstreren kun je leren. Zo doen ze het in Servië’ – Trouw
Niké Wentholt wrote an opinion piece to connect the ongoing, inspiring student-led protests in Serbia to the urgency to protest in the Netherlands. Here, too, we can come together in our shared dissatisfaction with right-wing politics and increasing authoritarianism. The piece was published a day before the international day against racism and the mass protest (15.000 people joined) against racism and fascism on March 21.
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Holocaust Reparations. Scrutinizing “the Model” in Transitional Justice
Nicole Immler wrote a chapter on Holocaust Reparations ‘Holocaust Reparations. Scrutinizing “the Model” in Transitional Justice’, in the book Redefining Reparations, Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair.
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Carla Boulos spoke at a roundtable at the Dutch Parliament
5/3/2025
On March 5, 2025 Carla Boulos participated at the Dutch Parliament in a roundtable on Syria as a women’s rights specialist, sharing her thoughts on how the Dutch government can support Syrian women in this critical moment.
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