Aida Alic – Researcher

Since 2004 Aida has been working as a journalist specialized in war crimes reporting for the BIRN Justice Report in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She has worked for IWPR, and for the Youth Initiative from Human Rights (YIHR). In the last four years she has reported on war crimes trials in the Court of Bosnia and the Hague tribunal. She has interviewed dozens of victims of war. She was also a lecturer at workshops for young people in Bosnia Herzegovina about transitional justice and the importance of overcoming the past.

Branko Todorović – Helsinki Committee

Branko Todorović is the Executive director of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Republika Srpska. Since 1996 the Helsinki Committee has been dedicated to promoting, protecting and monitoring the human rights situation in Republika Srpska and the region. Moreover, it focuses on mechanisms of transitional justice and the education of citizens towards tolerance and non-violent ways of resolving conflicts. Branko Todorovic has received numerous death threats regarding his work on the protection of human rights in the Republic of Serbia and establishing the truth about atrocities committed in Bosnia Herzegovina.

David Brown – Associate Producer

David is Head of Media for the Aegis Trust the UK’s leading genocide prevention organization. Based at the UK Holocaust Centre, Aegis is responsible for the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda and coordinates the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Genocide Prevention in Westminster. David has made several short films for Aegis, including most recently ‘Darfur Destroyed: Sudan’s Perpetrators break silence‘.

David is now involved in several broadcast documentary projects.

Ed Vulliamy – Journalist

A leading journalist and writer for the Guardian and the Observer, Ed reported extensively in the mid-1990s war in Bosnia, particularly on the inhumane conditions in which prisoners were kept in the concentration camp at Omarska. He also reported on 9-11 and has won Reporter of the Year several times.

Enrico Tessarin – Producer

Producer at New Treatment, Enrico is a graduate of LFS with ten years’ experience, working on documentaries, music videos, commercials and shorts. In 2006 Enrico was selected for EAVE (MEDIA-funded European production training) and in 2007 as one of the six producers from Film London ‘Passport’. He was also one of the 15 up-and-coming UK producers selected for the first London Production Finance Market. Since early 2007 he has worked on ‘Sofia’s Diary’, the first interactive web-series for Sony Television Europe, which successfully transferred to television on the new digital channel Fiver, from Channel Five.

Hasan Nuhanović – Survivor

Hasan Nuhanović was an interpreter for the Dutchbat III contingent of the United Nations Protection Force that was assigned to protect the United Nations “safe area” of Srebrenica. Hasan’s father Ibro, mother Nasiha and brother Muhamed were killed together with more then 8.000 people from Srebrenica After the war, Hasan has committed to establish the truth about the genocide in Srebrenica and has testified before the ICTY and sued the Netherlands due for their involvement in genocide and violations of basic human rights of his family.

Julian Phelan – Executive Producer

Julian is an award winning producer of documentary and feature-length films, including many made for the Discovery Channel and National Geographic in America. Julian has produced and filmed in Africa, America, Europe, Russia, Tibet and the Caucasus and continues to produce the World’s leading ethnographic films.

Lord Paddy Ashdown – Diplomat

Lord Ashdown was Member of Parliament (MP) for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until August 1999; later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia Herzegovina from 27 May 2002 to 30 May 2006, reflecting his long-time advocacy of international intervention in that region. He succeeded Wolfgang Petritsch in the position created under the Dayton Agreement. On 14 March 2002, Ashdown testified as a witness for the prosecution at the trial of Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Roy Allan Banwell – British UN peacekeeper

Roy was born in Stockport, Cheshire in 1952. He joined the Army at 18 years old. After his training, Roy joined the 22nd Cheshire Regiment, in which he served for 24 years, retiring from the Army at the age of 42. In the forces he rose from the rank of Private Soldier to become a Warrant Officer and served in trouble spots such as Rhodesia, Northern Ireland and Bosnia. In Bosnia, 1993, Roy was in charge of organizing the first international aid convoy, getting the vehicles loaded at the UNHCR depot and leading the convoy up through the back forest roads and on to Tuzla.

Satko Mujagic – Adviser

Satko was born in 1972 in Prijedor, northwest Bosnia, and grew up in Kozarac. Satko and his father were imprisoned in Omarska camp. He survived the atrocities in Omarska and Manjaca camps in 1992 and has lived in the Netherlands since 1993. In 2004 he founded the OPTIMISTI 2004 Foundation. Satko gained his master’s degree in law in the Netherlands in 2006 and now works as a policy adviser for the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Dutch Ministry of Justice.