Velma Šarić

Šarić works on behalf of marginalized groups in Bosnia-Herzegovina, promoting and encouraging respect for the rights of victims, women, and ethnic minorities.

[2] While with the IWPR from 2008 to 2014, she wrote more than 300 reports from proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, including the trials of Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić.

[3] As a freelance journalist, she has collaborated with many international media outlets, including Al Jazeera, PBS, National Geographic, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The New York Times, La Repubblica, Le Monde, The Guardian, and Deutsche Welle.

[4] To advance peace and reconciliation processes in the Western Balkans, Šarić has collaborated with local and foreign experts, artists, directors, journalists, and professors around the world.

Šarić worked as a Project Manager for the WARM Foundation,[11] an international organization that reports on the untold artistic, human condition, and memorial stories of the world's contemporary conflicts.

In 2014, The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group selected PCRC's project, Ordinary Heroes,[15] from more than 600 applicants to receive the Intercultural Innovation Award given personally by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon.