“Knowledge matters when we translate it into practice,” said Prof. Dr. Zilka Spahić Šiljak, Director of the TPO Foundation, on October 3, 2026, at the presentation of the ERMA Award for contribution to human rights, democracy, and peacebuilding. The recognition holds special significance for her, as she herself graduated from the ERMA programme in 2001, has been teaching in the programme for several years, and today addressed a new generation of students as an award laureate. Addressing this year’s generation of graduates, she reflected on completing her own studies in […]
“It is not enough to see injustice – we must decide what we will do when we see it,” said Prof. Dr. Zilka Spahić Šiljak at the Regional Feminist Forum, held on October 2, 2026, in Tuzla and organized by the Women’s Vision Association. Speaking about her own activist journey, Spahić Šiljak recalled that her struggle did not begin in theory, but through direct encounters with women whose lives had been devastated by war, violence, and injustice. Those experiences taught her that knowledge cannot be separated from responsibility toward the[…]
