NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Amsterdam hosted a conference Yugoslav Wars and Post-Yugoslav Space Thirty Years After: Between History, Memory and Law. It took place in late April in cooperation with Criminology department of Vrije Universitait and CISI. The immediate trigger was a round anniversary of key events from 1995, but there was more. Three decades are more than a large chunk of time. They amount to a full generational change. This is an important benchmark as well, as many archives are opening, giving new generation a space for re-configuring this sensitive field However, given a diminished international attention and in the absence of sole Yugoslav successor state, the need to coordinate such efforts is larger then ever. In order to prepare for an archival avalanche, the participants proposed the creation of transnational interdisciplinary group for researching Yugoslav conflicts (GRYC), tasked with opening new paths toward dealing with a burden of this troublesome past.
