BIO

Miško Stanišić is the director and co-founder of Terraforming, a Novi Sad-based NGO. He plays a key role in developing long-term strategies and project activities that aim to promote and enhance teaching and learning about the Holocaust. His work focuses on combating antisemitism and antigypsyism, as well as addressing Holocaust distortion and the abuse of history for nationalist propaganda. Miško’s initiatives target memory professionals, archivists, librarians, museum workers, policymakers, teachers, and students in Serbia and internationally.

Over more than 20 years in memorialization and education, Miško has developed numerous resources, exhibitions, training courses, and internationally acclaimed projects. Among others, he is the author of “The International Library Platform for Holocaust Education,” awarded the Yehuda Bauer Grant by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA, “Tajsa” – a series of video podcasts about the persecution of the Roma communities around Europe, and “ABC on Antisemitism” the first online resource about contemporary antisemitism in Serbia for journalists, educators, and other actors in memory culture.

Miško is the founder and president of the Center for Combating Antisemitism and Intolerance CBA. He is the co-initiator and chairman of the “Remembering Hilda Dajč Award​”. As a member of the delegation of the Republic of Serbia to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA, he participates in the Education Working Group and Committee for the Genocide of the Roma. Miško chaired the IHRA expert team in developing “Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Persecution and Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era” from 2022 until its adoption in December 2024.

Miško was a member of the European Network for Countering Antisemitism Through Education (ENCATE) steering committee and is currently a spokesperson for the European Practitioners Network Against Antisemitism (EPNA).

Miško Stanišić was born in 1966 in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. As a refugee from the civil war in Yugoslavia, he came to Stockholm, Sweden, in 1993. He has been based in Amsterdam since 2012. In 2019, he moved to Novi Sad, Serbia, where he is now permanently based. Misko studied General Law at Sarajevo University and Digital Media and Pedagogy in Stockholm.