WELCOME to the Institute for the Research of Genocide Canada
Dear Visitor,
On behalf of the Institute for Research of Genocide (Canadian Branch), as well as on my own behalf, it is both an honour and a pleasure to extend to you my most sincere welcome! This website is committed to informing you of the relevant academic, social, and all other activities of the Institute, in a thorough and timely fashion.
The Institute makes up part of the Institute for Research of Crimes against Humanity and International Law University of Sarajevo. As an academic institution, the Institute is dedicated to scientific research on crimes against humanity and international law. Specifically, our goal is to document and accurately illustrate all materials related to acts of Genocide. While demonstrating these facts we encourage and support academic and scientific dialogue on the matter based on democratic principles and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As a scientific organization, we are apolitical. Our aspirations are moral and humanitarian in nature and we only differentiate between justice and injustice.
The Institute experience and knowledge acquired in the area of studying the holocaust, genocide, and other forms of crimes against humanity and international law, constitute a relevant basis for profiling and leading all scientific, thus educational, current and future projects of the Institute, and its scientific-based activities. The Institute shall pay special attention to the education and further development of young scholars in the area of studying the holocaust, genocide, and other forms of crimes against humanity and international law.
We stand in solidarity for all genocide victims and assert that in order to prevent further genocides in the world, it is crucial that we take upon ourselves the responsibility to raise awareness by furthering understanding as well as condemning the atrocities inflicted on the Bosnian people in the the 20th century.
Faithfully Yours,
Prof. Emir Ramic
President of the Governing Board
Institute for Research of Genocide Canada
Emir Ramic, Academic Biography
Basic biographical records and details concerning academic positions and research
Emir Ramic was born in 1959 in Prijedor {Bosnia and Herzegovina}. He graduated from the Political Science department at the Faculty of the Political Science, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1982. He got his masters degree from the School of Law in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1988 (Masters Degree in
Law} and currently work on his PhD.
From 1984 to 1988 he worked as a teacher at the General High School Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
As of 1984, he has been an external associate of the Institute for Social Research of Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In October 1994 he was appointed Director of the newly established Bosnian International School in Bergneustadt, Germany.
In April 2001 he was appointed Director of the newly established Bosnian International School in Hamilton, Canada.
In December 2003 he was made an Associate Professor for the subject Peace Study at the McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
From May 2006 to May 2008 he was President of the Congress of North American Bosniaks. The Congress of North American Bosniaks is a National Umbrella Organization, representing at least 350,000 Americans and Canadians of Bosniaks descent and origin. Its membership is comprised of fraternal, educational, veteran, religious, cultural, social, business, political organizations and individual members.
As President of the Congress of North American Bosniaks he promotes:
- civic, educational and cultural programs designed to further not only the knowledge of Bosniak history, language and culture, but to stimulate Bosniak American – Canadian involvement and accomplishments,
- coordinates the activities and to articulate the concerns of the American-Canadian Bosniak community on public policy issues,
- promotes Bosniak culture, language, tradition and knowledge of Bosniak and Bosnia and Herzegovina history in Canada and the USA,
- supports Canada’s and the America’s official policies of multiculturalism as a means of fostering tolerance and understanding among Canada’s and America’s vibrant and diverse mosaic,
- initiates and provides representation to the federal and provincial governments on issues of concern to the Bosniak community in Canada and the USA,
- supports of the democratic process in Bosnia nad Herzegovina,
- and provides material and moral support for democratic initiatives, makes representations to the Bosnian government on issues of direct concern to the Canadian and American Bosniaks Community while maintaining its independence from the Bosnian government.
He becomes political and educational voice for the Bosnian Americans and Canadians in assisting the Bosnian Americans and Canadians in learning the cultural, economic, legal, political, and social systems of the United States and Canada. He helps and assists United States and Canada foreign policy in Balkans so that Bosnia & Herzegovina and its people are never again the target of aggression and genocide.
In March 2009 he was appointed Vice Director for Government Relations of the American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In October 2009 he was appointed Director of the newly established Institute for Research of Genocide of Canada.
He also studies and analyzes contemporary political and military history of Bosnia and Herzegovina and other neighboring countries. Particularly valued is his work on genocide and other forms crime against humanity and international law, especially those committed against Bosniaks, during WWII as well as during the aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991-1995).
He has published other academic works cited in scientific literature, known to the scientific and general public in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as abroad. Intellectually he has grown into an extremely serious, well known, and valued researcher and of modern Bosnian and Herzegovian history.
He is a lead member of and participant in the conceptualization, leadership and realization of many scientific projects as well as in the organization and work of many congresses, conferences and symposia.
He is a member of the World Society of Victimology and the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
He is the recipient of many prizes and recognitions, such as:
Golden Badge of the Sarajevo University (2011).
Chart with Golden Fleur de Lys of Institute for Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law of the Sarajevo University.
Chart with Golden Fleur de Lys of the Congress of North American Bosniaks.
Chart with Golden Fleur de Lys of the Canadian Bosniaks for outstanding efforts as concerns of Recognition Bosnian language in the USA and Canada, national name Bosniak in American and Canadian political and statistic documents, Resolutions about genocide in Bosnia in American Congress and Senate and Canadian parliament.
Letters of Gratitude by the many International Associations and Organisations, as an acknowledgement for his research on genocide and for outstanding efforts as concerns the development of the Institute for the Research of Genocide of Canada.
