Refik Hodzic

Refik Hodzic is a strategic communications and transitional justice specialist, writer, journalist and justice activist from Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

In recent years, working with the European Institute for Peace and the UN International Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, Hodzic has worked with victims of massive crimes in Syria, Yemen, Myanmar, Afghanistan and Ukraine, focusing on ensuring justice for mass atrocities and empowering victims to have a voice in decision-making forums which affect them directly. 

Since 2020, Hodzic has been a founding member of IFIT’s Inclusive Narratives Practice Group. Comprised of a select group of leading international experts on the subject, the group explores the creative and realistic options for transforming conflict-driving narratives. Previously, he served as director of communications at the International Center for Transitional Justice and in various capacities at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Hodzic is an award-winning journalist, film-maker and writer, whose published work mainly focuses on explorations of the impact of mass violence on communities, their perceptions of justice and their struggle for remembrance. He is a recipient of the Civic Courage Award from Fontbonne University in St. Louis.

Areas of expertise: strategic communications, transitional justice, media, journalism, displacement.