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Home Primary Case Studies Case study: Lasting legacy in Yorkshire and North East

Case study: Lasting legacy in Yorkshire and North East

For delegates in Yorkshire and the North East the twenty anniversary of the genocide was more than about commemorating one day. Regional Board Chair for Yorkshire and North East Alex Ross-Shaw organised a series of community building events across the year to create a lasting legacy based on the lessons learned in Srebrenica.

Srebrenica flag in Bradford

In June, Alex hosted several hundred young people from the city’s schools, madrassas and youth teams as part of the 8-3-7-2 Srebrenica Memorial Tournament. Children from all backgrounds learned about Srebrenica and played football together in an act of rejecting hatred.

This led into a series of commemorative events in the region to mark the twentieth anniversary. With contributions from Richard Corbett MEP, local faith leaders and young people from the Frizinghall Partnership and the Bradford City Council commemoration opened memorial week on Saturday 4 July.

Two further significant memorials followed, with Remembering Srebrenica Champion Zeynab Ahmed leading Leeds City Councils’ commemoration with participation from local MP’s Greg Mulholland and Stewart Andrew. Another board member Imam Qari Asim MBE of the Leeds Makkah Masjid mosque hosted an interfaith Iftar dinner. This event was attended by Dr Martin Kapel, a survivor of the Holocaust, and Samir Dizdarevic Chairman of the West Yorkshire Bosnian Hilal Cultural Society.

Following on from memorial week, there have been community building events including an interfaith breakfast and a special screening of Halima’s Path – a Bosnian-Croatian-Slovenian film about conflict which raised awareness of the genocide to a new audience in the region. For Alex, the lesson he has learned from Srebrenica is that even the most integrated of societies can be pulled apart and people turned against each other. It shows us how integration and understanding diversity does not have an end point. It is a constant journey and to stop this could push communities further apart. Work on creating a lasting legacy of understanding is something which Alex is committed to – not just on Srebrenica Memorial Day, but as a lifetime’s work.


 

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Dec 14, 2015Amil Khan
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