BETWEEN FEARS AND HOPE

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Almost thirty years after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, photographer FabriceDekoninck has explored the most intimate aspects of the memory of those who survived the siege of Sarajevo, the ethnic cleansing of the Prijedor region, and the genocide in Srebrenica. Like a memory anthropologist, he documented the 'living' memory of the war on the very sites where the events unfolded, in close contact with surviving witnesses.

This long-term work paints a portrait of a Bosnian society traumatised by the legacy of the war, which, in the absence ofhistorical truth, takes the risk of seeing it resurface. In the light of the return of war in Europeand the resurgence of nationalism worldwide, this book provides crucial insights into the risks posed to peace by instrumentalisation of war memories.

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Fabrice Dekoninck is a freelance documentary photographer working on the subject of the memory of contemporary conflicts. He is involved in long-term projects, which allows him to create relationships of trust with the witnesses whose lives he documents.

Bruno Tertrais is a political scientist, specialised in international security issues. He is the Deputy Director of the Foundation for Strategic Research and a geopolitical advisor at the Montaigne Institute. During the war in Bosnia, he worked at the French Ministry of Defence.