Janja Beč Neumann is Serbian-born sociologist,

genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Latin ...

researcher, writer and lecturer. She holds BSc in Engineering of Technology (

University of Belgrade The University of Belgrade ( sr, / ) is a public university in Serbia. It is the oldest and largest modern university in Serbia. Founded in 1808 as the Belgrade Higher School in revolutionary Serbia, by 1838 it merged with the Kragujevac-b ...

) and PhD in Sociology (

University of Zagreb The University of Zagreb ( hr, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, ; la, Universitas Studiorum Zagrabiensis) is the largest Croatian university and the oldest continuously operating university in the area covering Central Europe south of Vienna and all of ...

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

). She is a member of the

International Association of Genocide Scholars The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) is an international non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teaching about the nature, causes, and consequences of genocide, including the Armenian genocide, the Holoca ...

. In her scientific work she concerns herself in research and lecture with the topics war crimes, genocide and memories at the territories of the former

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

. She established the MA Course on War Crimes, Genocide and Memories, the first such course to be set up in South-Eastern Europe since the 1992–1995

Bosnian war The Bosnian War ( sh, Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. The war is commonly seen as having started ...

.
Meaningful World, Spring 2009 Newsletter of the Association for Trauma Outreach and Prevention, accessed 28 November 2010 She has written numerous academic publications as well as theater-plays on these topics. Beč Neumann has been known as a rare voice in Serbia calling for recognition that genocide was perpetrated against

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

s in the Bosnian war. Considered an authoritative voice on the

Srebrenica genocide The Srebrenica massacre ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Masakr u Srebrenici, Масакр у Сребреници), also known as the Srebrenica genocide ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Genocid u Srebrenici, Геноцид у Сребрен ...

, she has described the explanations given by

Bosnian Serb The Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sr-Cyrl, Срби у Босни и Херцеговини, Srbi u Bosni i Hercegovini) are one of the three constitutive nations (state-forming nations) of the country, predominantly residing in the politi ...

officials including the

Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, lit=Serb Republic, also known as Republic of Srpska, ) is one of the two Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Feder ...

president

Nebojša Radmanović Nebojša Radmanović ( sr-Cyrl, Небојша Радмановић, ; born 1 October 1949) is a Bosnian Serb politician who served as the 5th Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2006 to 2014. He is currently a member of ...

for their refusal to attend the collective burial and commemoration ceremonies for the victims as "shameful" and regards the Dutch battalion of the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) who expelled civilian refugees from their compound at Potocari in July 1995 as accomplices in what happened.
BBC Monitoring European report, 20 July 2009, of Bosnia-Hercegovina Federation TV, Sarajevo, Posteno ("Frankly") current affairs programme broadcast on 11 July 2009, republished by Bosnian Institute, accessed 28 November 2010 She describes denial as the last phase of genocide which takes generations to confront, as shown in the case of Germany. In 2005 she was nominated for the

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemi ...

Published books

*''Why Wars in Yugoslavia?'' (Novi Sad & Belgrade, 1993) *''The Shattering of the Soul'' (Belgrade, 1997) *''Sewing up the Blue'' (Cairo, 2002) *''Genocide live'' (Granada, 2003) *''Archipelago Atlantis'' (Sarajevo, 2004) *''Srebrenica from Denial to Confession; Banality of Indifference'' (2005) *''Top 10 Bystanders in Srebrenica'' (2005) *''Darkness at Noon: War Crimes, Genocide and Memories'' (Sarajevo, 2007) *''Talks with Richard Goldstone'' (Sarajevo, 2007)

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External links

Interview with RFE/RLFrom seminar "Srebrenica, Who Cares? Genocide, Who Cares?"
Academic Network South-East Europe {{DEFAULTSORT:Bec, Janja Serbian non-fiction writers Living people University of Belgrade alumni Year of birth missing (living people)