War, Art, Reporting & Memory (WARM) Festival.

From 2012 – 2020, I served as Associate Project Manager for the War, Art, Reporting & Memory Foundation’s Sarajevo branch. I played a central role in project development and fundraising as well as event planning, coordination, and promotion for 6 international WARM Festivals that brought together more than 2,500 attendees from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. This includes the coordination of 60 film screenings, 34 exhibition launches, 12 conferences, and more than 40 workshops and discussion panels.

ABOUT WARM.

In April 2012, on the 20th anniversary of the siege of Sarajevo, hundreds of journalists reunited in Bosnia’s capital city of Sarajevo for a week-long event initiated by French photojournalist, war correspondent, and documentary filmmaker, Rémy Ourdan. The event was organized around the launch of the War Art Reporting and Memory Foundation (WARM), an organization dedicated to addressing contemporary and past conflicts through artistic expression that promotes a culture of remembrance.

To establish the Sarajevo branch as an international hub for dialogue and collaboration journalists, multimedia artists, academics, NGO/CSO/IO leaders, and other stakeholders dedicated to preventing war and genocide, WARM needed a strong local partner. The Post-Conflict Research Center was, thus, selected and served a primary role in the planning, coordination, and implementation of WARM’s Sarajevo-based activities, which included the annual WARM Festival–a week-long series of multimedia and educational events dedicated to telling the stories of international conflict, both past and present.