Abstract
The author will emphasize the importance of both the existence and the further development of the Srebrenica - Potočari Memorial Center, in the context of the continued need to understand the genocide that took place in and around Srebrenica, from the aspect of building a culture of remembrance throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). This is necessary in order to continue fighting the ongoing genocide denial. At first glance, a culture of remembrance presupposes immobility and focus on the past to some, but it is essentially dynamic, and connects three temporal dimensions: it evokes the present, refers to the past but always deliberates over the future. In this paper, the emphasis is placed on the concept of the place of remembrance, the lieu de memoire as introduced by the historian Pierre Nora. In this sense, a place of remembrance such as the Srebrenica - Potočari Memorial Center is an expression of a process in which people are no longer just immersed in their past but read and analyze it in the present. Furthermore, looking to the future, they also become mediators of relations between people and communities, which in sociological theory is an important issue of social relations. The author of this paper emphasizes that collective memory in the specific case of genocide in and around Srebrenica is only possible when the social relations around the building (Srebrenica - Potočari Memorial Center) crystallize, which is then much more than just the content of the culture of remembrance.
Highlights
An overview of the organized nurturing a society’s culture of remembrance, is most often followed through ideological and institutional ways of its transmission. It is more extensive in its content, the culture of remembrance determines the historical culture, that is, how society looks at its past
It is a constantly changing whole that is formed under the influence of many factors. One of these factors is the phenomenon of accelerating history (Nora, 2007), which clearly reveals the distance between true memory, social and intact, embodied in societies just like Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H), and which disappears with them
This paper seeks to actualize the importance of the Memorial Center and emphasize the need for an adequate cultural policy that will place this specific object of memory, with its support, directly in the context of directing the development of comprehensive social relations in society with emphasis on their moral and educational transformation
Summary
An overview of the organized nurturing a society’s culture of remembrance, is most often followed through ideological and institutional ways of its transmission. The study of lieux de memoire, places of remembrance, and in the specific case of this paper, the Srebrenica - Potočari Memorial Center, defines both the meaning and importance of understanding the genocide committed in 1995 in and around Srebrenica.
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