Advisory Reports, Publications

Daadwerkelijk veranderen

Eva Mulder, Niké Wentholt, Naomi Ormskerk, Yara Bodegraven, Jake Smit & Nicole Immler

June 27, 2025 – revised may 2026 | WODC

In this commissioned research for WODC, researchers from DoJ worked together with other UvH-researchers to study government measures to recognize violent in youth care.

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Media

Interview on the meaning of freedom as a scientist and human being

1/6/2025 ‘Erkenning van het verleden biedt vrijheid voor de toekomst’ – Vrij Nederland

‘Recognition of the past offers freedom for the future.’ That is Nicole Immler’s position in the conversation with Annemiek Leclaire for Vrij Nederland about the meaning of freedom as a scientist and as a human being.

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Media

140 Jahre Berliner Afrika-Konferenz

23/5/2025 – ‘140 Jahre Berliner Afrika-Konferenz’ – Zeitgeschichte Online

Report by Nicole Immler on her visit of the Africa Conference in Berlin. It is about much more than genocide or restitution: dignity – at the conference commemorating the Berlin Africa Conference of 1884/85. To this day, the conference continues to shape European thinking about Africa and African thinking about Europe. It is worth taking a close look at the narratives that have become established about the conference and examining their consequences.

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Media

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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Publications

‘Unburden us and them’: encountering ‘the other’ in meetings between Bosnian genocide survivors and Dutch UN veterans

Siri Driessen, Jeannette van Brenk, Nicole Immler & Eric Vermetten

March 28, 2025 | Frontiers in Sociology, Medical Sociology

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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Publications

How (Post) Memory Matters to Justice

Nicole Immler

Dec 30, 2024 | Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization

“How can narrating the past change the future?”. This volume is a dedication to the work of Ann Rigney. Nicole Immler wrote a chapter on ‘How (Post) Memory Matters to Justice’.

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Attended events

19-20/12/2024 – Conference on Intergenerational Memories of Mass Violence at the Palais des Académies (Brussels)

This conference explored the complexity of intergenerational memory in the aftermath of mass violence. Nicole Immler shared insights from three-generation-holocaust interviews during her talk: The Struggle for ‘the Right to Exist’. ‘After a war we count in generations.’ It was a timely conference: Intergenerational memories of mass violence – a truly interdisciplinary and international conference. […]

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