Janja Bec-Neumann is a Serbian-born sociologist, genocide researcher, writer and lecturer, focusing mainly on the former Yugoslavia. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Technology at the University of Belgrade and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Zagreb and the University of Cambridge. She established the Masters course: “War Crimes, Genocide and Memories”, the first such course to be set up in South-Eastern Europe since the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, and lectures on these subjects at several institutions including the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy in Hamburg and the Universities of Dubrovnik, Sarajevo, and Bologna. She is a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and has written numerous academic articles and books on these topics, including Darkness at Noon: War Crimes, Genocide and Memories (Sarajevo, 2007), Talks with Richard Goldstone (Sarajevo, 2007) and Talks with Luis Moreno-Ocampo (Sarajevo, 2008). She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.
Trying individuals for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression