focus day program - Connecting Cultures

Art and Survival | Focus on Bosnia-Herzegovina
When the spotlights switch off on a post-conflict area
STUDY DAY PROGRAMME TUESDAY 20TH NOVEMBER
Focus for discussion will be the potential for Art and creativity in the field of Human Rights in adding a
dimension of hope and a vision to people’s lives. Speakers can freely discuss what they believe to be the
main political economic social or artistic obstacles to development in a post conflict country. It is
undeniable that the situation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, more than ten years after the end of the war, is not
greatly developed despite the quantities of aid and mobilisation of the international community.
Among the most devastating consequences in the area of human relations is the widespread persistance
and insidious presence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), an often unrecognised and pervasive
obstacle to survival. The permanence and possible deterioration of this condition with time, the difficulties
of addressing it have rarely been studied or faced publically. During the Study Day the project Art and
Survival will be presented and discussed by those involved, and project materials produced during the
workshop will been viewed.
I SESSION 9.30 – 13.00
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Fulvio Irace, historical of Architecture, member of the Board of La Triennale Foundation of Milan,
institutional partner;
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Anna Detheridge, President of Connecting Cultures, coordinator of Art and Survival Project;
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Loretta Bondi, UNOG-OHCHR; Office of the United Nations, High Commissioner for Human Rights;
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Vladimir Gligorov, Economist at Wiener Institut fur Internationale Wirtschaftvergleiche, expert in
long-term growth in transition countries that has dedicated long part of his studies to Balkan
countries;
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Paola Pierri, President of Unidea Foundation; private foundation established by UniCredito Italiano
in March 2003 which will plan and sustain interventions in the field of development solidarity and
cooperation. Unidea proposes intervening in social and humanitarian fields by operating in the
sectors of medical, educational and environmental aid;
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Richard Mollica, Director of the Harvard Programm in Refugee Trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts
General Hospital and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School;
LUNCH BREAK
II SESSION 14.30 – 18.00
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Yohannes Kassahun, Director of IDLO Distance Learning and research Center. IDLO is a
intergovernmental development organization that fulfils its mandate by providing training, technical
assistance, research and publication to governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), local
communities and professional associations in developing countries, countries in economic transition
and countries emerging from armed conflict;
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Irfanka Pasagic, Psychiatrist born in Srebrenica that has founded in Tuzla the centre “Tuslanska
Amica”, that offers the Bosnians medical, social and legal assistance, also implementing a project of
adoption at distance;
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Vesna Puratic, Assistant Minister for Federal Ministry of Health of Bosnia-Herzegovina;
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Cesare Pietroiusti, artist, coordinator of Art and Survival Project;
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Lala Rascić, artist involved in Art and Survival Project.
PARTICIPANTS
FULVIO IRACE
Professor of History of Architecture at University of Milano Bovisa, member of scientific committee at
Triennale Milano, curator for Architecture.
He has contributed to many of the main international architecture and design publications, reviews, such
as Domus (1980-86), A+U, Architectural Review, Casabella, Lotus, Ottagono Op.Cit, and is architectural
critic for the Sunday culture supplement of the financial daily, Il Sole-24 Ore and advisor for architecture
for Abitare.
Irace’s main interests concentrate around the history and criticism of modernity and its methodologies,
with a particolar emphasis on subjects regarding the architectural and artistic debate in Europe between
the two world wars and in the reconstruction period.
He has dedicated recent years to the following exhibitions: (Assenza/Presenza, 1977; La Metafisica: gli
anni Venti, 1980; Gli AnniTrenta, 1982; Architetture del Novecento, 1988; Carlo Mollino, 1989; Gigiotti
Zanini,1992; L’architetto del Lago, 1993) e di alcuni studi, tra cui i più recenti: Aldo Andreani, Gio Ponti:
la casa all’italiana, 1988; Carlo Mollino; Piero Portaluppi: la fabbrica della Seta, 1989; L’architetto del
Lago/Giancarlo Maroni e il Garda,1993; Giovanni Muzio 1893-1982, 1994; Milano Moderna, 1997; Vico
Magistretti, 1998; La ville d’Hadrien à Ivrea, in “Costruire la città dell’uomo”, Adriano Olivetti e
l’urbanistica, 2001; Renzo Piano: la fabbrica della musica, 2002; Architettura Musicale, in “Architettura &
Musica. Renzo Piano Building Workshop”, 2002; Paesaggi sintetici: Alvaar Aalto e la progettazione della
natura, in P.Carpeggiani, a cura di, “Storia dell’Architettura e dintorni dal Cinquecento al Novecento”,
2002; Le architetture per la musica di Renzo Piano, in “Treccani. Il Libro dell’Anno 2002”, Istituto
dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, 2002; Censimento delle fonti: gli archivi di architettura in Lombardia, 2003;
Stile di Caccia, 2003; Centro e periferia nella Milano degli anni Trenta, in G.Ciucci, G.Muratore, a cura di,
“Storia dell’architettura italiana. Il primo novecento”, Electa, Milano 2004; Emilio Ambasz. Un’arcadia
tecnologica, Skira, Milano 2005.
His most recent publications include: Storie e storiografia dell’architettura contemporanea, 1992;
Nikolaus Pevsner. La Trama della Storia, 1992; Groningen: l’isola del Museo, 1994; Cemento, materia
dell’architettura, 1995; Silvio Zaniboni. La scultura decorativa e la città, 1996; Dimenticare Vitruvio,
2001.
ANNA DETHERIDGE
Critic and theorist in the field of the Visual Arts. She has been responsible for the arts pages of the
Sunday culture supplement of Il Sole 24Ore until 2003 and continues to contribute to the newspaper.
She is also independent curator in the contemporary arts and curated the first exhibition on Public Art in
Italy entitled Arte Pubblica, lo spazio delle relazioni in 2003.
In the same year she curated an international exhibition at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts entitled Global
Village: the 60s and was artistic director of the Xth Photography Biennale of Turin entitled Innatura.
She has taught at the Milan Politecnico of Design, Bovisa and Bocconi University at the CLEACC, Milano.
In 2001 Anna Detheridge founded Connecting Cultures, an Action Research agency in the field of visual
arts with the aim of promoting artistic and interdisciplinary projects; sustaining creative processes within
society; promoting culture as catalyst for sustainable development, the empowerment of local and human
resources in the complex field of environmental and urban regeneration.
LORETTA BONDI
Loretta Bondì is a senior officer with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights. She is the High Commissioner’s speechwriter.
Previously, she created and directed the Cooperative Security Program at the Johns Hopkins University,
School of Advanced International Studies, Center for Transatlantic Relations. She was also a member of
the Resource Group advising the UN High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change.
A former journalist, Ms. Bondì joined the nongovernmental organizations’ community in 1996, first at
American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA), and subsequently at Human Rights Watch in Washington, D.C.
She was Advocacy Director with The Fund for Peace from March 2001 to November 2002. Ms. Bondì had
previously co-founded the Arms and Conflict Program of The Fund for Peace.
She is a co-founder and a leading member of the International Action Network on Small Arms, an
international coalition of 500 NGOs, and has participated in campaigns ranging from conflict diamonds, to
child soldiers, and to the International Criminal Court. Ms. Bondì conceived and framed an international
convention to control arms trafficking as well as other legislation. She was a member of the group of
governmental and nongovernmental experts which advises the U.N. Secretariat and Security Council on
targeted sanctions.
As a foreign correspondent, Ms. Bondì worked in Europe and South East Asia for major European
publications, including Corriere della Sera, Italy’s leading newspaper, and L’Espresso newsmagazine. She
was also a broadcaster with RAI, Radiotelevisione Italiana. She has published hundreds of articles,
including a series based on her discovery of Ferdinand Marcos’s secret diaries.
Recent Publications:
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Beyond the Border and Across the Atlantic: Mexico's Foreign and Security Policy post-September 11th
Opinions: A Series (editor):
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Shoulder to Shoulder: Views from Government and Civil Society on Cooperative Security
"Arms Trafficking Danger, U.S. Should Join UN Effort Against It", Washington Times--December 29,
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"The Interwoven Threat of Arms Trafficking and Terrorism: a Challenge to Cooperative Security"
Before the US Southern Command Conference on Illicit Arms Trafficking on July 15-16, 2003, Miami,
FL
Other publications:
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"Legitimacy and Legality: Key Issues in the Fight against Terrorism" (The Fund for Peace, September
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In Name Only? in Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002);
“Disillusioned NGOs Blame the United States for a Weak Agreement,” SAIS Review 22.1, WinterSpring 2002;
Arms Embargoes in Smart Sanctions: The Next Steps (Bonn International Center for Conversion
Studies, 2001),
Expanding the Net: A Model Convention on Arms Brokering (The Fund for Peace, 2001);
Casting the Net? Implications of the U.S. Law on Arms Brokering (co-author, The Fund for Peace,
2001);
South Africa. A Question of Principle: Arms Trade and Human Rights (Human Rights Watch, 2000);
Arsenals on the Cheap: NATO Expansion and the Arms Cascade (Human Rights Watch, 1999);
Diari di un Dittatore: Ferdinand Marcos si Racconta (Diaries of a Dictator: Ferdinand Marcos Tells His
Story) (Rizzoli-Corriere della Sera series, 1989).
VLADIMIR GLIGOROV
Economist at Wiener Institut fur Internationale Wirtschaftvergleiche, Vladimir Gligorov is an expert in
long-term growth in transition countries that has dedicated long part of his studies to Balkan countries.
Professional experience record
1995 to date Senior economist, The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)
1994 (July-Dec) Visiting fellow, Institut für die Wissenschaften von Menschen, Vienna
1992-1994 Visiting scholar, Dept. of East European Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden
1991-1992 Visiting fellow, Centre for the Study of Public Choice, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA
1987-1991 Researcher, Institute for Economic Sciences, Belgrade
1979-1987 Private scientist, Belgrade
1975-1979 Assistant professor, Belgrade University
1972-1973 Research assistant, Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University, New York
1971-1972 Fulbright scholarship, Columbia University, New York
Areas of interest
Theory of choice (rational, social, public), macroeconomics, public finance, economics of transformation,
economics and politics of former Yugoslavia, political philosophy.
Current and recent research projects
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Functional Borders Sustainable Security: Integrating the Balkans in the European Union (IBEU)
(EU-Project, HPSE-Programme, Coordination: ELIAMEP, Athen)
'European Union Enlargement, Regionalism and Balkan Integration', EU-Interreg IIc-Project
"Countdown", project participant
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“Costs and benefits of unilateral euroisation of the Central and East European countries”, EUInterreg
IIc-Project "Countdown", project participant
wiiw-World Bank Project on Southeast Europe
wiiw-London School of Economics Project on Balkan Observatory
ELIAMEP, LSE, wiiw Project on Southeast Europe
Other activities
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Regular contributor to Oxford Analytica (Oxford and New York)
Regular commentator of Ekonomist Magazin (Beograd), Prizma (Sarajevo), Utrinski vesnik (Skopje)
Adjunct professor at Webster University, Vienna
Occasional Lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna
Consultant for Southeast Europe and Yugoslavia, OECD
Consultant for Serbia and Kosovo, World Bank
Member of the External Advisory Board on Governance and Anticorruption in the Europe and Central
Asian Region of the World Bank
Member of the Advisory Board for South Eastern Europe of the EastWest Institute
Member of G17 (Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
Selected Publications (Books, articles in books and journals, wiiw publications):
1. Why Do Countries Break Up? The Case of Yugoslavia, in: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1994
2. Gradual Shock Therapy, in: East European Politics and Societies, vol. 7, 1995, pp. 195-206
3. What If They Will Not Give Up?, in: East European Politics and Societies , vol. 7, 1995, pp. 409-512
4. The Great Transformation Revisited, in: Balkan Forum, vol. 4, 1996, pp. 1-30
5. Growth Consequences of Systemic Transformation (with N. Sundström), in: M. Knell (ed.), Economics
of Transition. Structural Adjustments and Growth Prospects in Eastern Europe, Edward Elgar, heltenham,
UK - Brookfield, Vermont, USA, 1996
6. CEFTA and the Balkans, paper presented at the Berlin conference, November 1996, published in the
proceedings of the conference, 1997
7. Yugoslav Economics Facing Reform and Dissolution, published in a book edited by Hans-Jürgen
Wagener by Routlage, 1998
8. Aussenwirtschaft, in: M. Hatschikjan, S. Troebst (eds.), Sudosteuropa: Ein Handbuch. C. H. Beck,
1999, pp. 367-394
9. Russian Crisis: Causes, Developments, Contagion and Prospects (with N. Sundstrom), in: P. J. J.
Welfens, E. Gavrilenkov (eds.), Restructuring, Stabilizing and Modernizing the New Russia. Springer,
2000
10. Final Report of the Task Force on Economic Strategy for South Eastern Europe. New York: EastWest
Institute, May 2000
11. Reconstruction and Integration in South-East Europe: Economic Aspects. wiiw 2000
12. Prospects for Development in South-East Europe (together with V. Astrov), wiiw Research Reports,
No. 276, Vienna, April 2001
13. Der Westen und die wirtschaftliche Stabilisierung des Westlichen Balkans, in: Erich Reiter (Hg.),
Krisengebiete in Europa. Forschungen zur Sicherheitspolitik: Band 5, S. 90-109, 2001
14. Notes on the Stability Pact, in: Journal of Southeastern Europe and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1,
2001, S. 1-19 and in: Veremis and Daianu, Balkan Reconstruction. Frank Cass, 2001
15. Bosnia and Herzegovina, in: Journal of Southeastern Europe and Black Sea Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1,
2001, S. 132-139 and in: Veremis and Daianu, Balkan Reconstruction. Frank Cass, 2001
16. Shaky Macedonian Foundations, in: Institute for War & Peace Reporting, 9 March 2001
17. Drzava ili modus vivendi, in: Prizma (Online-Vorabdruck), Belgrade, May 2001, S. 19-23
18. Spori povratak u buducnost, in: Bilten G17, Belgrade, June 2001, S. 1-2
19. Populizam ugrozava reforme, in: ekonomist, No. 56, Belgrade, 18 June 2001
20. Slow Return to the Future, in: Economic Review, East-West Institute, June 2001
21. Dealing with Macedonia, in: Central European Review, Vol. 3, No. 25, 10 September 2001
22. Jedno vreme posle udara nije bilo jasno sta se sve promenilo, pa gotovo da nije bilo jasno u kom ce
se svetu ziveti, in: Prizma, Belgrade, December 2001, S. 6-10
23. Balkan Reconstruction and European Integration, in: Southeast Europe Online
(http://www.southeasteurope.org/)
24. Southeast European Economic Prospects in View of Recent Political Developments, in: NATO
Colloquium 2001
25. European Union Enlargement and the Balkans, in: A. Warner, The European Competitiveness and
Transition Report 2001-2002, Oxford University Press, 2002
26. A Policy Brief, in: South Eastern Europe, SEE Online, March 2002
27. European Union Enlargement and the Balkans, in: The European Competitiveness and Transition
Report 2001-2002, World Economic Forum Geneva
28. Balkan, tranzicija i integracija, in: Paris: Peace and Conflict Resolution, to be published, 2002
29. European Union Enlargement and the Balkans, in: A. Warner (ed.), European Competitiveness and
Transition Report. Oxford University Press, 2002, 114-125
30. Sloboda and com. i globalizacija, to be published in the 40 year jubilee volume of the Zagreb
Department of Political Science and in Zagreb journal Treci program, 2002
31. Balkan Economics: Problems and Solutions, in: V. Franicevic (ed.) Southeast Europe: Politics,
Economics and Sociology. Zagreb: Ekonomski fakultet and wiiw, to be published, 2002
32. State in the Balkans, in: J. Teokarevic (ed.), European Union and the Balkans. Beograd: Institute za
evropske studije, 2002
33. Balkan Economics. Problems and Solutions (V. Gligorov, in: Globalization, Democratization and
Development. European and Japanese Views of Change in South East Europe. Ed. By Vojmir Franicevic
and Hiroshi Kimura, in assoc. with the wiiw. Zagreb, Massmedia 2003)
34. Serbia and Montenegro: Transition with Organized Crime (V. Gligorov, wiiw Current Analyses Nr. 19,
2003)
35. European Union in the Balkans (V. Gligorov, in: European Balkan Observer, Bi-Monthly of the
Belgrade Centre for European Integration and the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
(wiiw), Vol.1, no.1, 2003)
36. Freedom and Globalization (V. Gligorov, in: politicka misao, vol. 39, no. 5, 2003)
37. Prospects for Further (South-) Eastern EU Enlargement: from Divergence to Convergence (V.
Gligorov, M. Holzner, M. Landesmann, wiiw Research Report No. 296, 2003)
38. European Union Enlargement and the Balkans (V. Gligorov, in: Economic Convergence and
Divergence in Europe, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) (ed.), Vienna 2003)
39. Deconstruction and Reconstruction of Former Yugoslavia (V. Gligorov, in: A. Muniu-Pippidi, I. Krastev
(ed.): Nationalism and Communism: Lessons Learned, Central European University Press, Budapest,
2004)
40. Debt Sustainability and Growth in Croatia (Vladimir Gligorov, wiiw Research Reports No. 306, May
2004)
41. Croatia’s Delayed Transition: Competitiveness and Economic Policy Challenges (H.Vidovic, V.
Gligorov; wiiw Research Reports No. 304, March 2004)
Working Papers
1. Balkan Reconstruction and European Integration with M. Kaldor and L. Tsoukalis, 1999 (to be found at
www.wiiw.at)
2. The Stability Pact for South-East Europe, 1999 (to be found at www.wiiw.at)
3. The Kosovo Crisis and the Balkans: Background, Consequences, Costs and Prospects, 1999 (to be
found at www.wiiw.at)
4. The Costs of the Kosovo Crisis, with N. Sundström (to be found at www.wiiw.at)
5. Delaying Integration, wiiw Working Paper, July 2000
6. The Nature and the Scope of the Balkan Development Problem(s), in: http://www.eubalkan.org/
7. Triple Balkan Transition, and European Integration, in: http://www.eu-balkan.org/
8. The EU as an Economic Model for the Balkans, in: http://www.eu-balkan.org/
9. Reality, Expectations and Perceptions, A Policy Brief for International IDEA, March 2002 to be found at:
http://www.idea.int/
10. Socialism and Disintegration of SFR Yugoslavia (V. Gligorov, in: M. Mrak et al., Slovenia, The World
Bank, 2004)
11. Fiscal legacy of Yugoslavia (V. Gligorov, paper for the World Bank project on SEE, June 2004
PAOLA PIERRI
Paola Pierri was born in Turin and holds a degree in Economics and Commerce from La Sapienza
University of Rome. Her professional experience includes collaborations with IMI –Istituto Mobiliare
Italiano (1987); EURAMERICA FINANZIARIA INTERNAZIONALE SpA Gruppo Banco di Sicilia (1987-89);
COFIRI SIM SpA Gruppo IRI (1989-94); MEDIOCREDITO CENTRALE SpA (1995-98); Gruppo UNICREDITO
ITALIANO – Unicredit Banca Mobiliare SpA (since 1998).
From 2000 to 2002 she was deputy Managing Director substituting the Managing director of Unicredit
Banca Mobiliare S.p.A – the Investment Bank of Unicredit Group with the direct organisational
responsibilities. From 2000 to 2006 she was CEO of Unicredit Bank Mobiliare SpA and from January 2003
central co-director Unicredito Italiano SpA.
Since March 2003 she has been Vice President of the Unidea Foundation of which she became President
in April 2006. Unidea Foundation is a private foundation constituted by Unicredito Italiano in March 2003
for planning and sustaining intervention in the field of solidariety and cooperation for development.
Unidea aims to intervene in social and humanitarian situations operating in the field of social assistance,
health education and the environment.
Paola Pierri is also President of the Unicredit China Capital (Hong Kong) and Unicredit Bejiing Consultants
Company Limited (Peking) branches; consultant for Edipower S.p.A and IEO. Paola Pierri has also worked
as researcher for the University la Sapienza of Rome – Istituto di Tecnica Bancaria, Cattedra di Tecnica
del Mercato Mobiliare (1986/90); she has taught at the post graduate school of the University of Bologna;
has worked as course Director of Executive Master in Business Administration. She is founding member
and administrator of the Roberto Bassoni Onlus, active in sociological and health projects in Africa and
the Balkans.
RICHARD MOLLICA
Richard F. Mollica is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Harvard
Program in Refugee trauma (HPRT) at Massachusetts General Hospital. Since 1981, Dr Mollica and HPRT
have pioneered the medical and mental health care of survivors of mass violence and torture in the US
and abroad. Under Dr. Mollica’s direction, HPRT conducts clinica, training, policy, and research activities
for populations affected by mass violence around the world. Dr. Mollica is currently active in clinical work,
research and the development of a Global Health Curricula focusing on trauma and recovery funded by
Fogarty International Center/NIH. The Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery certificate program is
the first of its kind in global mental health and post-conflict disaster. Dr. Mollica has published over 160
scientific manuscripts and has recently published his first book “Healing invisible Wounds: Paths to Hope
and Recovery in a Violent World” (Il Saggiatore, 2007).
YOHANNES KASSAHUN
Dr. Yohannes Kassahun is IDLO Managing Director and coordinator for IDLO’s Global Poverty Reduction
Strategy support. Previously he managed the IDLO Distance Learning and Research Centre and also was
Director of Programs and Projects. He first joined IDLO in 1989 and left as Senior Program Legal Counsel
in 1995 to join a Washington D.C.-based corporation "The Institute for Public Private Partnerships" where
he was appointed Vice-President and Director of Legal and Regulatory services. He advised more than 35
countries in developing procurement strategies, and creating legal and regulatory regime for public
private partnerships projects in the provision of utility, infrastructure and social services.
Before joining IDLO in 1989, Dr. Kassahun taught international law and international business
transactions at the University of Oklahoma Law School. Dr. Kassahun co-lectured on subjects of
international law and development and worked as an associate researcher at Harvard Law School in the
United States. Prior to that, he served in the Ministry of Finance of Ethiopia in various capacities,
including Senior Legal Counsel and Director of Customs Enforcement.
Dr. Kassahun studied law at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He completed graduate studies and
received Masters and Doctorate degrees in law from Harvard Law School. Dr. Kassahun specialized in law
and development subjects, including international financing of projects, procurement, trade in regional
economic integrations, public Private Partnerships, international law and conflict management, and
concepts on development law training.
IRFANKA PASAGIC
Doctor Irfanka Pasagic is Specialist in Neurology and Psychiatry, specialised in 1986 in Zagreb, Rebro
Hospital.
Post-graduate studies in Psychotherapy.
Education for supervisor, Gothenburg University, Trauma education, Missouri University, Group therapy,
Zagreb University.
Professional experience:
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1996 -2006 Program Co-ordinator and from 1999 President of the Tuzlanska Amica, NGO that
supports women and children traumatised in war in Bosnia and Herzegovina . This work includes
education and supervision of other professionals in the field of Psychotherapy.
1994 – 1996 – Supervisor and Educator for UNICEF and Supervisor for the project “Woman and Child”
supported by Norwegian People’s Aid. Supervised group of 20 psychotherapists.
1992-1994 - Formed the Group for Psychological Assistance to Traumatised Women and Camp
Detainees in Tuzla.
1986 -1992 After the specialisation worked as Head of Psychiatry Department in Vlasenica, and then
in the Centre for Rehabilitation and Haematology in Srebrenica.
1979 -1986 – Medical doctor in Srebrenica
International and NGO Experience, Participation at conferences and congresses:
Since 1993 activist in the Project Bridges between Women in co-operation with Spatio Publico di Donne,
Bologna, Italy with the groups of women from Pancevo, Serbia, Prishtina, Kosovo and Tuzla, Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
Since 1995 one of the founders and activists in Human Rights Office Tuzla. Participated and prepared
many round tables, workshops and seminars on human rights, especially related to the position of
displaced persons, traumatised persons, refugees and children.
Organiser of Swedish-Bosnian conferences on Refugee Problems in 2000, and participant in 1997 and
1998.
Organiser and Initiator of Professional Meetings of German and Bosnian psychotherapists held in 1998,
1999, 2000 and 2001.
In 1995 Co-odinator of activities for psychological assistance to 20.000 displaced persons from
Srebrenica after their exodus from Srebrenica to Tuzla in Tuzla Airfield.
One of the initiators of the project - Democracy cannot be built with the hands of broken souls since 1998
together with Dr. Yael Danieli.
Participant in many national and international seminars and conferences and author of more than 20
papers presented at international symposiums including:
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First International Conference on Genocide in Kigali, Rwanda
European Conferences on Traumatic Stress in 1996 and 1997 held in Shefield, Great Britain and
Maastricht, Holland.
Intersessional Meeting of the Preparatory Commission for the Establishment of an International
Criminal Court in ELEMENTS OF CRIME
16th Annual Meeting of the ISTSS IN San Antonio, United States of America
Molte Donne Un Planeta in Bologna, Italy
6th International Congreess of the World Islamic Association for Mental Health
Participant in the Action Let us save UN protected zones in Switzerland
Rape as War Crime, Conference of the United Nations held in Vienna in 1999.
Author of several projects of assistance to traumatised persons implemented in Bosnia and Herzegovina
since 1992.
Alexander Langer award in 2005
VESNA PURATIC
Working at position of the regional project manager from 2002 when the Government of Bosnia and
Herzegovina submitted mental health project, and has become the lead country in that priority area, as a
part of the broad initiative of Stability Pact for south-eastern Europe. Coordinating activities in mental
health area in the framework of this Initiative is a big challenge.
“My engagement in mental health started in 1992 when the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina burst out.
In the period from 1992-1997 I was coordinating mental health programmes for Medicines Sans Frontiers
helping population in their coping with traumatic experiences and facilitate process of recovery through
psycho-social support in counselling centres throughout the country.
Few articles were published from our work in B&H, in international journals. (Mental Health Programmes
in Areas of Armed Conflict, the Medecins sans Frontieres Counselling Centres in Bosnia and Herzegovina).
When MSF left the country I continued to work in different international organizations taking part in
reforming mental health system through establishment of community mental health centres.
Raising awareness of public and make them more sensitive to mental health problems has become a
biggest challenge of my engagement at that time.
As the result of it a group of B&H and international mental health professionals initiated a Journal”
Community Mental Health. (1999-2003)
the position of an editor gave me the opportunity to work on preparation of different manuals, brochures
and other PR materials in mental health”.
CESARE PIETROIUSTI
Cesare Pietroiusti (Rome), is graduated in Medicine in 1979, with a dissertation on Psychatry on the
subject of “Effects of suggestion in psychotherapy”.
Co-founder of Centro Studi Jartrakor, Rome, in 1977, and of the magazine Psicologia dell’Arte, Rome, in
1979.
Artist in residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, S. Francisco, in 1993 and Civitella Ranieri Center,
Umbertide, in 1996.
Editor of the magazine Aperture, Roma, 1996.
Coordinator of “Progetto Oreste 0” involving 70 Italian artists, Paliano, 1997 and “Progetto Oreste 1”
(about 160 participants), Paliano, 1998.
Coordinator, since 1999, of a series of international artistic residencies in Montescaglioso, MT: “Progetto
Oreste 2”, agosto-settembre 1999; “Progetto Oreste 3”, settembre 2000; “Not Oreste 4”, settembre
2001; “Giovani Artisti in Residenza in Basilicata – GARBa ‘02”, settembre 2002; “GARBa 03, agosto
settembre 2003”; “GARBa 04, luglio-agosto 2004).
Coordinator of “Oreste alla Biennale” (50.ma Biennale di Venezia, 1999).
Coordinator of the conference “Come spiegare a mia madre che ciò che faccio serve a qualcosa?
Comunicazione, quotidianità, soggettività nelle nuove ricerche artistiche italiane”, Link, Bologna, 1997;
and of the conferece “Piacere Picasso!”, Arteria, Matera, 1999.
Winner of Premio Alinovi 1999.
Co-founder of Nomads & Residents (New York, 2000).
Coordinator of projects and exhibitions at Clocktower-P.S.1 (New York, 2000-2001).
Coordinator of “labOratorio 3” (Torino, 2002).
Coordinator (with Emilio Fantin) of the I Seminar at Fondazione Baruchello (Dic. 2003- Apr. 2004) and of
the conference “I solisti e la banda – Per una critica delle pratiche artistiche condivise”, MACRO, Roma,
2004.
Professor at IUAV, Venezia (since 2003).
Co-curator of the Sound Art Museum, Roma (since 2004).
Member of the scientific committee of Fondazione Ratti, Como (since 2005).
Ha held many conference and lectures: Unione Culturale Franco Antonicelli (Torino), MIFAV – Università
di Tor Vergata (Roma), Temple University Abroad (Roma), Museo Pecci, (Prato); Istituto Europeo di
Design (Roma), Casa delle Culture (Cosenza), Associazione ARTEria (Matera), Landsmuseet (Linkoping,
Svezia), Headlands Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Fondazione Guggenheim (Venezia), Fondazione
Querini-Stampalia (Venezia), Officine (Catania), Pompeiorama (Napoli), Museo Civico (Gallarate), Galleria
Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Bergamo); Galleria Marres (Maastricht), Accademia di San
Luca (Roma), Università “La Sapienza” (Roma); Fondazione Baruchello (Roma); Fondazione Olivetti
(Roma); Middlesex School (Londra); CCAC (San Francisco); P.S. 1 (New York); Kunsthalle (Basel); LUISS
(Roma); Accademia di BB: AA: di Firenze; MECA, Portland Maine (USA); 16Beaver Group (New York),
Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella), Fondazione Ratti (Como), Accademia di Belle Arti (Budapest); MACRO
(Roma); Royal College of Arts (Londra), Arco (Madrid).
Main personal exhibitions
1978
1982
1984
1985
- "Ipotesi di identità" (Jartrakor, Roma)
- "50 risposte a quattro immagini-stimolo" (Jartrakor, Roma)
– “Cesare Pietroiusti” (Jartrakor, Roma)
– “Scusi ero distratto” (Jartrakor, Roma)
1987
1989
1989
1990
1990
1992
1995
1997
1997
1998
1998
1999
2000
2001
2001
2001
2002
2002
2003
2004
2004
- "n titoli" (La Scala c/o, Roma)
- "Cesare Pietroiusti" (Studio Casoli, Milano)
- "Alice 27/01/1989" (Alice, Roma)
- "Finestre Vivita 1, 17/11 e 29/11/1989" (Vivita 1, Firenze)
- “Cesare Pietroiusti” (Galerie de Paris, Parigi)
- "Punto vendita libri" (Primo Piano, Roma)
- "In che cosa posso esserti utile?" (Primo Piano, Roma)
- "Pensieri non funzionali" (Studio Morra, Napoli)
- “Cosa c’è che non va?” (Emi Fontana, Milano)
– “Ospiti - Lavori e idee di-per-con altri” (Casa di Alfredo Granata, Celico – Cosenza)
– “Oggetti inesistenti” (Graffio, Bologna)
– “Tutto quello che trovo” (Base, Firenze)
– “Una condizione apparentemente normale” (Graffio, Bologna)
– “One hundred things that are certainly not art” (Platform, Vasa, Finlandia),
– “Difetti normali” (Primo Piano, Roma)
– “Due artisti” (con Giancarlo Norese, Graffio, Bologna)
– “Things that are certainly not art” (Bloomberg Space, London)
- “Lo sguardo dell’altro” (Alice e Altrilavoriincorso, Roma)
– “Riciclare pensieri superflui” (Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino)
– “Forth Week of the Micro-Performance” (Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana)
– “Methods for an irreversible transformation of money” (Trafo Gallery, Budapest)
Special ongoing projects
"Arte e Ospedale", Curated by Marina Engel and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, in cooperation with Ospedale
Gemelli, Roma, involving aphasic patients
”Centomila opere d’arte”, curated by a.titolo and Rebecca de Marchi, in cooperation with Comune di
Carmagnola (TO). The project consists of producing unique objects in small scale, connected with the
territory best practises in craftsmanship and industry (canopy, cotton, leather), then distributed within
the network of eco-museums.
LALA RASCIC
Lala Rascic is born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1977.
1995 - Graduated from the School of Applied Art and Design in Zagreb, Graphic Design department
2001 – BA/MA Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, painting and art education.
2003-04 - Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2005 - Based between Zagreb and Sarajevo.
solo exhibitions/selection
2007
- Everything is connected, National Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, cat.
- Everything is connected II, BOP Gallery, Zagreb
- Everything is connected III, Museum of Contemporary Art, Banja Luka
- Correspondences, on-line project, ARC Projects, as part of Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh 2006
- Sorry Wrong Number, Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik
- Sorry Wrong Number, Gray Area, Korčula 2005
- Icons Share Their Wisdom, with Ana Hušman, Artenativa, artist run space, Zagreb
- Flying Carpet, Gallery Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb, cat.
- The Invisibles, galerie Dick de Bruijn, Amsterdam
- Drawings, with Koen Dealaere, Galerie Dick de Bruijn, Amsterdam 2004
- New work, Galerija Nova, Zagreb
- City on a Hill, with Ana Hušman, KIC photogallery, Zagreb, cat. 2003
- All the extras, with Ana Husman, Zagreb 2001
- 17 Stories, VN gallery, Zagreb, cat.
- in>side<out, with Ana Hušman and Zeljko Blaće, Galerija PM, Zagreb 2000
- Neohypno romantizam, Galerija SC, Zagreb, cat.
group exhibitions/selection
2007
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Women on the crossroads of ideologies, City Hall, Split, cat.
Performing the Space, Association of Architects, Zagreb
Heroes in Transition, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, cat.
Artists, BOP Gallery, Zagreb, cat.
Zagreb salon, Association of Artists, Zagreb, cat.
Cinemaniac 2007, as part of Pula Film Festival, MMC Luka, Pula, cat.
Bon Voyage, Threshold Artspace, Perth, Scotland
29 artists, exhibition of finalists for the MSU and T-HT award, Velesajam, Pavillon 9, Zagreb
2006
- Radoslav Putar Award, Finalists 2006, Galerija Galzenica, Zagreb, cat.
- Zvono Award, Finalists 2006, Narodni Dom, Banja Luka, cat.
- Absent Without Leave, Bienal of Young Artists, Bucharest, cat.
- Welcome Home Laika, Alti Aylik, Istanbul
2005
- No Stills #3, Discovering The Balkans, Brussels
- Insert, Retrospective of Croatian Video Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, cat.
- U prvom licu, Art Gallery, Dubrovnik, cat.
- Normailzation: That from a long way off look like flies, Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul
- Outside Sources, Kunstlervereingung MAERZ, Linz
2004
- Flash, Likovni Salon Celje, Slovenia
- "Unimovie", Museo Laboratorio ex manifattura tabacci, Citta Sant'Angelo, Pescara
- New Video, New Europe, Renaissance Society, Chicago, cat.
2003
- Balkan Konsulat, <rotor>association for contemporary art, Graz, cat.
- In Between, Art Camp, Ars Aevi, Museum of Contemporary Art , Sarajevo, cat.
- Last East European Art Show, Museum of Modern art, Belgrade, cat.
2002
- Broadcasting project, dedicated to Nikola Tesla, Superflex and Mamachannel featuring Lala Rascic and Ana
Husman, cat.
- START, Mestna galerija, Ljubljana, cat.
- Time codes, International Bienall of Young Artists, Vrsac, cat.2001
- 34. Zagreb salon, cat.
2000
- I'm still alive', net.art and early computer art, PM gallery, HDLU, Zagreb, cat.
1999
- Mediterrenean Bienall of young artists, Rome, cat.
Screenings and festivals/selection
2007
- Days of Croatian Film, Zagreb
2006
- "We are So Much Better Than This", Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles, cat.
- Visura Aperta, Momnjan
2005
- Segnali luminosi, Programme Cinemed, Center for Visual Arts "La Pescheria", Pesaro
- Visura Aperta, Momnjan
- “New Video New Europe” touring video program, a.o. The Kitchen, Stedelijk Museum, Tate Modern
- “Tricky woman” film festival, Vienna
2004
- Days of Croatian Film, Zagreb, venue: Kinoteka, Zagreb, cat.
2003
- Video Medeja, Novi Sad, cat.
- Courtesane fesitval, Gent, cat.
- INOUT festival, Prague
- Festival of Audio and Visual Media, Momnjan
- 9. Sarajevo film Festival, Sarajevo, cat.
2002
- Microfestival, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, experimental film section
- Kurtzfilmtage Oberhausen,international competition, venue: Filmplast Lichtburg, cat.
- Days of Croatian Film, Zagreb, venue: Kinoteka, Zagreb
- 7th International Short Film Festival of the IranianYoung Cinema Society, cat.
- 24e Festival international Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier
- 4-th Festival of Cinemas Different from Paris
2001
- Crossing Over 6 Micro-festival of Digital Film Culture, Liverpool, cat.
- as part of 55th Edinburgh International Film Festival
- as part as XXero Faces@Ars, Ars Electronica 2001,Linz
- as part of Tirana Biennial, Tirana
- International Festival of New Film, Split
- as part of Interstanding 4: 'end repeat', Tallinn
awards
2000-mi2 web award, third prize, category net.art, for project Pick-a-Pict, http://www.autonomous-cfactory.hr/PICK-A-PICT
2002- first prize in experimental film selection, 7th International Short Film Festival of the Iranian Young
Cinema Society, Tehran
2003 - Best young artist, Video Medeja film festival, Novi Sad
2006 – Young Visual Artist Awards, “Zvono” winner, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2007 – first prize, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb and T-HT award, Museum acquisition
presentations and artist talks/selection
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2007,
2006,
2005,
2004,
Forum Stadpark, Graz
Art In General, New York
Theory in Practice, Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
residencies and grants
2001 - 'Crossing Over 6 - Micro Festival of Digital Film and Culture', mini –residency, Liverpool, supported by
APEX fund and Croatian Ministry of Culture
2003 - 2004 - Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, two year work period, supported by
Ministry of Culture Netherlands and from Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Croatia
2003 - grant from Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Republic of Croatia
2004 - grant from Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Republic of Croatia
2005 -residency program at Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul, supported by the American Center Foundation
2005 – Cite des Arts internationals, Paris, supported by Croatian Artists Association
2006 – project grant, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Croatia
2006 – project grant, City Culture Council, Zagreb
2006 – ISCP, New York, NY, supported by Foundation for a Civil Society and Trust for Mutual Understanding
2007 – Forum Stadtpark, AIR Exchange program, Graz, supported by CCN, Graz and Gallery Miroslav
Kraljevic, Zagreb
2007 – Edinburgh Residency hosted by ARC Projects Edinburgh/Sofia
2008 – Kultur Kontakt Artist in Residence Program, Vienna (upcoming)