A Balkan Journey: Reflections on 25 years of the Dayton Peace Accord
BAFTA Scotland (New Talent) winning photojournalist and filmmaker, Chris Leslie, has documented war-ravaged towns and cities of the Balkan region over the past 25 years. In his latest visual arts project, ‘A Balkan Journey,’ Chris provides a window into a lived experience, amplifying the voices and stories of ordinary people as they understand their past and face their future. Senior Fellow Payam Akhavan and Massey Alumna Delila Bikic speak with Chris about his never-before seen photographs and the ways in which film can capture the intimacy and raw emotion of human experience as a journey from conflict to a particular version of peace.
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Speakers
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Chris LeslieChris is a BAFTA Scotland new talent award winning photographer and filmmaker producing long term multimedia documentary projects. Disappearing Glasgow was first published in 2016, documenting his home city of Glasgow and documented the stories of the people on the frontline of demolition and regeneration through films, a book and multimedia. His latest project – A Balkan Journey, is a visual arts project in the form of a book, website and exhibition of a photographic journey through the towns and cities of post-conflict Former Yugoslavia in this extensive and previously unseen 24-year archive from the region.
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Payam AkhavanSenior Fellow, Massey College; Special Advisor on Genocide to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
Payam Akhavan, LLB (Osgoode), LLM SJD (Harvard), is Senior Fellow at Massey College, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and Special Advisor on Genocide to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. He is Counsel to the newly established Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law.
He was previously Full Professor at McGill University Faculty of Law (2005-20) and Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at European University Institute, with other appointments at Yale Law School, Oxford University, Université Paris Nanterre, Sciences Po École de Droit, and Leiden University. He has published extensively on international criminal law and in 2017 he delivered the CBC Massey Lectures. Professor Akhavan was the first Legal Advisor to the Prosecutor’s Office of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1994-2000) and also served with the UN in Bosnia, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda, and Timor Leste. He has served as counsel in notable cases before the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He also serves as Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Global Affairs of Canada on the Flight PS752 tragedy, is Senior Fellow and Canadian Co-Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and Co-Founder of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre. He is recipient of the 2021 Human Rights Award of the Law Society of Ontario and his human rights work has been featured in the New York Times, BBC HARDtalk, CBC Ideas, Maclean’s, and other media.
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Delila BikicAlum, Massey College
Delila in the final year of the JD program at Osgoode Hall Law School. She will be commencing her articles at Gardiner Roberts LLP, where she looks forward to gaining exposure to a broad litigation practice. Previously, she was a Massey College Junior Fellow from 2015-2017 and earned a degree in Political Science and History at the University of Toronto and a Master’s in European Affairs at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Policy. Prior to law school, Delila spent a lot of time as a researcher in the Balkans, especially in her hometown of Sarajevo, working on various projects concerning the rebuilding of the rule of law and minority integration post-conflict.
