Media

Podcast: Responsibility for the Future with Niké Wentholt

As part of her contribution to the 30 Years Srebrenica genocide-conference in Sarajevo in July 2025, Niké was invited to participate in the podcast UNSAJDER made for that important anniversary. In the podcast episode, she reflects together with presenter Tina Kalinić on questions of Dutch responsibility and epistemic justice in scholarly research on genocide.

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Publications

Herstel als maatschappelijke opdracht: zichtbare transformatie van relaties

The Child Benefits Scandal harmed individuals, families, and social relationships. Despite significant investments in repair, many victims still find these efforts inadequate, partly due to the lack of a systemic, society-wide approach. This article explores societal repair using theories of transformative justice, resonance, and the justice continuum, presenting repair as a multi-level process. It proposes three perspective shifts to address key obstacles and argues that repair requires the transformation of social relationships, making it a responsibility for society as a whole.

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Exploring the ICTY as Cultural Heritage

The past decades have shown an increase in ad hoc international law institutions, yet the afterlife of tribunals remains relatively unknown. This entry by Niké Wentholt and Siri Driessen explores how the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, as a site of cultural heritage with layered narratives, can be transformed into a place of multidirectional memory. It identifies key narratives accumulated during the ICTY’s lifespan, reflects on silences around peace and justice, and conceptualizes the tribunal’s afterlife as both a legal institution and an archive. Artistic representations are discussed as a means to complexify and transform the ICTY’s narratives, expanding understandings of its history, future, and broader relevance for the cultural afterlife of tribunals.

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Attended events

1-3/7/2025 – Conference: Srebrenica 30 Years After the Genocide: Memory, Responsibility, and the Challenges of Denial

30 years after the genocide in Srebrenica This year marks 30 years since the genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Niké Wentholt was invited to speak at the international conference Srebrenica 30 Years After the Genocide: Memory, Responsibility, and the Challenges of Denial. Leading researchers in genocide studies, including Dirk Moses, Hikmet Karčić, Edina Bećirević, Henry […]

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Media

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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