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Exploring the ICTY as Cultural Heritage

Siri Driessen & Niké Wentholt

July 18, 2025 | The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict

This entry by Niké Wentholt and Siri Driessen explores how the ICTY in The Hague, as a site of cultural heritage with layered narratives, can be transformed into a place of multidirectional memory.

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.

Attended events

02-03/05/2024 – Reimagining Victims’ Reparation Global Network (RVRGN): “Reimagining reparation as social repair. A Dialogics of Justice perspective.”

Nicole, Siri and Niké participated in the second workshop of a newly established network on re-imagining victims’ reparations. Sandra Rios Oyola invited this group of international scholars to come together in a beautiful medieval hall at University College Roosevelt. Over two days, discussing multiple cases and theoretical frames, we exchanged ideas on how reparations can […]

Media

Call on Dutch institutions for higher education to speak out on (de)humanization in the face of the violence in Palestine and Israël

27/10/2023 ‘Hamas-Israël conflict moet studenten leren niemand te ontmenselijken’ – Trouw

‘Wees niet bang om ‘partij te kiezen’ gericht op humanisering’ – Nieuw Wij

In this opinion piece Siri Driessen, Nicole Immler, Obiozo Ukpabi and Niké Wentholt called on Dutch institutions for higher education to take a stand against dehumanization in the face of terrorist attacks and genocidal violence.