New Thematic Analyses: The Camp System, the Law, and Denial
Published: June 27, 2026
The Institute has published a set of cross-cutting analyses accompanying its place-by-place documentation of the Bosnian genocide. The new essays examine the network of more than 650 detention sites as the central machinery of ethnic cleansing; the use of sexual violence as a weapon and the landmark Kunarac judgment; the jurisprudence of the ICTY and the ICJ that reshaped the international law of genocide; an index of the principal perpetrators and their prosecution; and the politics of denial and memory three decades on.
Read them in the Themes, Analysis & Justice section: The Camp System, Sexual Violence, The ICTY & the Law of Genocide, Perpetrators & Justice, and Genocide Denial & Memory.
Place-by-Place Documentation of the Bosnian Genocide Now Online
Published: June 25, 2026
The Institute has published a comprehensive, municipality-by-municipality record of the ethnic cleansing and genocide committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The archive now covers more than forty places — from Srebrenica and the Prijedor camps to the siege of Sarajevo and the Croat–Bosniak war in Mostar — each entry setting out what happened, who was responsible, how many people were killed, and the judicial and forensic sources on which the account rests.
Casualty figures are attributed to their sources and, where they conflict, presented side by side rather than collapsed into false precision. Each page is accompanied by a freely-licensed photograph or locator map.
Marking 11 July: The International Day of Commemoration
Published: May 30, 2026
In 2024 the United Nations General Assembly designated 11 July as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica — a resolution that Serbia and Republika Srpska campaigned against, underscoring that the contest over memory remains live at the highest levels. The Institute joins in marking the day and encourages educators to use its timeline and Srebrenica documentation in commemorative and classroom settings.
For the wider struggle over remembrance and the denial that persists today, see our analysis of Genocide Denial and the Politics of Memory.
Petition Against the Institutional Re-traumatization of Survivors of Obmana (the Bosnian Genocide)
Published: January 21, 2026
Survivors of the Obmana have launched a powerful international petition accusing domestic and international institutions of perpetuating their suffering through systematic inaction, calling the glorification of convicted war criminals and the denial of established facts a form of "institutional re-traumatization" that continues the war by other means.
The petition, titled "Against the Institutional Re-traumatization of Survivors of Obmana (the Bosnian Genocide)," asserts that for survivors, the conflict that claimed over 100,000 lives between 1992 and 1995 has never truly ended. It argues that a "consistent pattern" of publicly tolerated genocide denial, monuments to war criminals, and institutional silence constitutes a severe, ongoing human rights violation and a "continuation of genocidal policies".
"For war survivors, the war did not end in 1995. It continues through systematic and institutionally tolerated re-traumatization."