OLIVERA SIMIC Surviving Peace Thursday 16 October 6.00 for 6.30pm How do you pick up the pieces after your life is shattered by war? How do you continue living when your country no longer exists, your language is no longer spoken and your family is divided, not just by distance but by politics too? What happens when your old identity is taken from you and a new one imposed, one that you never asked for? In this heartfelt account of life before, during and after the Bosnian War and the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999, Olivera Simić talks of her transition from peace to war and back again. She shows how she found the determination to build a new life when the old one was irretrievable.
to be launched by Julianne Schultz Olivera Simić is a feminist, human rights activist and academic. Originally from the former Yugoslavia she now teaches international law and transitional justice at Griffith Law School.
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