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Miško Stanišić was born in 1966 in Sarajevo, in the former Yugoslavia. As a refugee from the civil war in Yugoslavia, he fled to Stockholm, Sweden in 1993. Since 2012 has been based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. From 2019 he lives and works mostly in Novi Sad, Serbia. He studied General Law at Sarajevo University, and Digital Media & Pedagogy in Stockholm.

Misko Stanisic is Director and co-founder of Terraforming, a non-profit NGO based in Novi Sad. With Terraforming he developed and organized various international projects in the fields of education about the Holocaust and culture of remembrance, countering Antisemitism, Antigypsyism, and media literacy. In 2016 Terraforming was awarded the Yehuda Bauer Grant by International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA for the project “European Library Platform for Holocaust Education”. Misko Stanisic is author of the educational concept and collection of graphic novels about the Holocaust in Serbia "Ester".

He is member of the Delegation of the Republic of Serbia to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA, where he is member of the Education Working Group, as well as Countering Denial and Distortion project group.

Misko Stanisic participated in the OSCE/ODIHR and UNESCO Expert Group established to advise on the direction and content of the education policy guidelines and training materials that will provide national policy-makers and practitioners with a basis for addressing anti-Semitism at national level. This resulted in the publication "Addressing Anti-Semitism Through Education: Guidelines for Policymakers".

Music
Misko Stanisic plays piano, electric organ, electric piano and synthesizers. Since early 1980's he has been writing, composing and producing music. In Sarajevo he was one of the founders of Garri Garrincha, and contributed on recording sessions with various artists (Zabranjeno Pusenje, Jadranka Stojaković). Together with Vlado Kajevic he wrote music and lyrics at La Banda. The documentary "Graffiti Street" (Propeler Film, 2007) directed by Sergej Kreso depict La Banda reunion in Sarajevo in 2006.

In Stockholm Misko Stanisic composed and recorded piano albums Makadam and Xisteria in 2007. In 2010 he founded Captain Sorrow & Primitive Dance and recorded the album Point of No Return. In Amsterdam he joined Dynamo Irie and recorded the album Stepping Stones to Greatness in 2015 and the EP I’m your dog and Your Boyfriend is Outside in 2017.