Cardiff and Vale College delegation reflects on 2025 visit to Srebrenica with Remembering Srebrenica
In June 2025 a group of ten students from Cardiff and Vale College took part in a five day visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The
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Nedžad Avdić, Srebrenica survivor
Remembering Srebrenica is committed to educating young people about the Srebrenica genocide and the valuable lessons that we must learn for our own communities.
We have developed a range of free resources that are available for free download. Explore the links below to find the resources that would best suit your needs.
Every year, Remembering Srebrenica chooses a theme that honours the victims and survivors of the 1995 Bosnian genocide and speaks directly to the responsibilities we share in our society today.
This year, our theme is “We Are Here”.
“We Are Here” is the voice of survivors of genocide who endured unimaginable loss, yet stand today with dignity, courage and strength.
In the UK, “We Are Here” is visible in the thriving Bosnian community that has rebuilt life after displacement and trauma. But “We Are Here” does not belong to survivors alone. It belongs to all of us and to our shared responsibilities in society. It belongs to everyone in the UK who stands shoulder to shoulder with survivors. When we listen, when we learn, when we speak out, we too say: “We are here”.
“We Are Here” is a message to perpetrators past and present: you did not succeed. Survivors are here and their children are here. And it is a message to all of us: remembrance is not passive. To stand with survivors is to commit ourselves, actively, visibly and courageously, to ensuring that hatred and division do not prevail.
The National Education Union and Remembering Srebrenica have published ‘The Bosnian Genocide – Survivor Story Curriculum Pack’, which includes many new lessons created and trialled by NEU members over 18 months. They are designed to be flexible and used as a starting point for educators’ own use, knowing their own student and pupil abilities, sensitivities, learning styles, experience and needs.
Please click the button below to download the PDF.
Dr Kim Sadique, Chair of RSUK’s Academic Advisory Board, has collaborated with Cardiff and Vale College and mXreality to create the Virtual Bosnia Room. A pedagogically underpinned, innovative educational tool exploring the genocide and mass atrocities that occurred across Bosnia in the 1990s, the Bosnia Room can be used to educate learners from age 12 upwards.
To support educators in delivering learning on the Bosnian genocide, the Virtual Bosnia Room comes with a teaching guide providing an understanding of what happened in Bosnia, the Ten Stages of Genocide and a model for delivery, along with an example lesson plan.
The Bosnia Room can be found on the first floor of the antiracism learning platform. The entrance to the room is depicted as the Srebrenica Flower.
The image shows a scene from the immersive learning environment in the Bosnia Room.
Remembering Srebrenica has partnered with De Montfort University to deliver a 6-week online course to allow people to learn the lessons from Srebrenica, to hear the testimony of survivors, and to be trained in how to develop their skills in community activism. If you would like to know more about the course, please click the button below.
Our ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ visits programme aims to teach UK citizens about the importance of standing up to hatred and intolerance and using the lessons of Srebrenica to bring together their local community. Participants of the programme leave the UK as delegates and come back as community champions, inspired to make a difference to society here in the UK.
Commemorate the 31st anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica by delivering this assembly on July 11th. The assembly tells the story of Viktor, a young boy forced to leave his home during the Bosnian War. Based on the book ‘Gleam and Glow’ by Eve Bunting, this assembly focuses on the ‘differences’ and concludes that our differences should be cherished as they make our communities stronger.
This pack contains age-appropriate workshops for KS1, Lower KS2, and upper KS2. These workshops focus on the lessons that can be learned from Srebrenica – the importance and value of diversity within our community.
With students, create a Srebrenica Flower as shown in the pictures. Ask students to draw around their hand and write messages of peace and hope for the future. Encourage students to think about their own communities and their knowledge of the wider world to write their messages. Once completed, bring the hands together around a green circle to create the Srebrenica flower.
We encourage schools to engage with not only exploring what happened in Bosnia, but the relevant links with modern-day issues at home and abroad. By learning the lessons from Srebrenica, we can safeguard against intolerance – and collectively make a difference in our own communities.
For the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, Kada Hotić and Munira Subašić, of the Movement of the Mothers of Srebrenica and Žepa Enclaves, wrote an inspiring message to accompany a UK performance of My Thousand Year Old Land, a documentary piece of theatre based on survivor testimonies from the war crimes that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. Their message can be used as a source for classroom teaching.
Our ‘Lessons From Srebrenica’ educational visits programme seeks to inspire people to take action in their UK communities that will help to create a better, safer and stronger society.
We aim to motivate people of all ages to strengthen their communities by challenging hatred and intolerance. We do this by remembering the worst crime in Europe since the Second World War. More than 8,000 mainly Bosnian Muslim men and boys were systematically murdered, just for who they were.
Remembering Srebrenica has created over 1500 community champions through our delegations who have pledged to stand up to hatred and intolerance and spread the Lessons from Srebrenica to their communities to encourage cohesion.
In June 2025 a group of ten students from Cardiff and Vale College took part in a five day visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The
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On Monday 27th August, the Minister for Faith, Lord Bourne, made a poignant visit to Sarajevo and Srebrenica– the site of the worst atrocity on
The UK Government’s Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues visited Srebrenica and heard first hand from the victims of the genocide. Here he shares his thoughts.
Lilian Black gives her personal reflections on her ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ visit and draws parallels between events in Bosnia and her family’s experience of The Holocaust.
Andrew Johnston, PhD is a genocide expert who travelled on our Lessons from Srebrenica programme in 2016 and shares his thoughts on its relevance in today’s world.
Participants on the ‘Lessons from Srebrenica’ programme from the South West region of England share their experiences of being in Bosnia and what they’ve learnt to take back to the UK.