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Investigating Srebrenica

Author : Isabelle Delpla,Xavier Bougarel,Jean-Louis Fournel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857454720

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Investigating Srebrenica by Isabelle Delpla,Xavier Bougarel,Jean-Louis Fournel Pdf

In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army commanded by General Ratko Mladic attacked the enclave of Srebrenica, a UN "safe area" since 1993, and massacred about 8,000 Bosniac men. While the responsibility for the massacre itself lays clearly with the Serb political and military leadership, the question of the responsibility of various international organizations and national authorities for the fall of the enclave is still passionately discussed, and has given rise to various rumors and conspiracy theories. Follow-up investigations by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and by several commissions have dissipated most of these rumors and contributed to a better knowledge of the Srebrenica events and the part played by the main local and international actors. This volume represents the first systematic, comparative analysis of those investigations. It brings together analyses from both the external standpoint of academics and the inside perspective of various professionals who participated directly in the inquiries, including police officers, members of parliament, high-ranking civil servants, and other experts. Evaluating how institutions establish facts and ascribe responsibilities, this volume presents a historiographical and epistemological reflection on the very possibility of writing a history of the present time.

Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide

Author : Lara J. Nettelfield,Sarah Wagner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107000469

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Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide by Lara J. Nettelfield,Sarah Wagner Pdf

This book traces the reverberations of genocide, forced displacement, and a legacy of loss in Bosnia and abroad.

Srebrenica

Author : Jan Willem Honig,Norbert Both
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040749338

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Srebrenica by Jan Willem Honig,Norbert Both Pdf

On 12 July 1995 the Bosnian Muslim enclave of Srebrenica fell and the Bosnian Serb troops killed 3-800 Muslims. This exhaustive account tries to answer how this massacre could have happened and how it might have been avoided.

To Know where He Lies

Author : Sarah E. Wagner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520255755

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To Know where He Lies by Sarah E. Wagner Pdf

"Wagner provides a remarkable analysis of a deeply disturbing subject and offers her own powerful contribution to the multi-layered efforts to identify and recognize Srebrenica's victims--including not just those who were killed but also the relatives left behind."--Pamela Ballinger, author of History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans "To Know Where He Lies forces the legal community to think about identification for families as opposed to evidence collection; the scientific community to look beyond technology and statistics; the international community to acknowledge accountability; and the public to examine its attitudes toward genocide by personalizing loss."--Dr. Harvey Weinstein, University of California, Berkeley

War Crimes Trials and Investigations

Author : Jonathan Waterlow,Jacques Schuhmacher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319640723

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War Crimes Trials and Investigations by Jonathan Waterlow,Jacques Schuhmacher Pdf

This book represents the first multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of war crimes trials and investigations. It introduces readers to the numerous disciplines engaged with this complex subject, including: Forensic Anthropology, Economics and Anthropometrics, Legal History, Violence Studies, International Criminal Justice, International Relations, and Moral Philosophy. The contributors are experts in their respective fields and the chapters highlight each discipline’s major trends, debates, methods and approaches to mass atrocity, genocide, and crimes against humanity, as well as their interactions with adjacent disciplines. Case studies illustrate how the respective disciplines work in practice, including examples from the Allied Hunger Blockade, WWII, the Guatemalan and Spanish Civil Wars, the Former Yugoslavia, and Uganda. Including bibliographical essays to offer readers crucial orientation when approaching the specialist literature in each case, this edited collection equips readers with what they need to know in order to navigate a complex, and until now, deeply fragmented field. A diverse and interdisciplinary body of research, this book will be indispensable reading for scholars of war crimes.

The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe

Author : Ljiljana Radonić
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000712124

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The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe by Ljiljana Radonić Pdf

The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe discusses the “memory wars” in the course of the post-Communist re-narration of history since 1989 and the current authoritarian backlash. The book focuses specifically on how “mnemonic warriors” employ the “Holocaust template” and the concept of genocide in tendentious ways to justify radical policies and externalize the culpability for their international isolation and worsening social and economic circumstances domestically. The chapters analyze three dimensions: 1) the competing narratives of the “universalization of the Holocaust” as the negative icon of our era, on the one hand, and the “double genocide” paradigm, on the other, which focuses on “our own” national suffering under – allegedly “equally” evil – Nazism and Communism; 2) the juxtaposition of post-Communist Eastern Europe and Russia, reflected primarily in the struggle of the Baltic states and Ukraine to challenge Russian propaganda, a struggle that runs the risk of employing similarly distorting and propagandistic tropes; and 3) the post-Yugoslav rhetoric portraying one’s own group as “the new Jews” and one’s opponents in the wars of the 1990s as (akin to) “Nazis”. Surveying major battle sites in this “memory war”: memorial museums, monuments, film and the war over definitions and terminology in relevant public discourse, The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe will be of great interest to scholars of genocide, the Holocaust, historical memory and revisionism, and Eastern European Politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.

Bosnia's Million Bones

Author : Christian Jennings
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137401205

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Bosnia's Million Bones by Christian Jennings Pdf

The extraordinary story of how a team of international forensic scientists pioneered ground-breaking DNA technology to identify the bodies of thousands of victims of the Yugoslav Wars, and how their work is now giving justice to families from Iraq to Bosnia What would it be like to be tasked with finding, exhuming from dozens of mass graves, and then identifying the mangled body-parts of an estimated 8,100 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia? A leading forensic scientist likened it to "solving the world's greatest forensic science puzzle," and in 1999 one DNA laboratory, run by the International Commission on Missing Persons in Sarajevo, decided to do just that. Thirteen years on, the ICMP are the international leaders in using DNA-assisted technology to assist in identifying the thousands of persons worldwide missing from wars, mass human-rights abuses and natural disasters. Christian Jennings, a foreign correspondent and former staffer at the ICMP, tells the story of the organization, and how they are now gathering forensic evidence of those killed in Libya and Iraq, and tracing the victims of brutal regimes in Chile and Colombia. He describes too how they helped identify the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Indian Ocean tsunami, in this moving and fast-paced story about the power of science to bring justice to broken countries. Now used as evidence at war crimes trials in The Hague, the technology described in Bosnia's Million Bones is an amazing story of modern science, politics, and the quest for truth. It is real-life CSI in action.

Clarifying the Past

Author : Cira Pallí-Asperó
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000726046

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Clarifying the Past by Cira Pallí-Asperó Pdf

Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understanding the work of such commissions. The theoretical and methodological framework is complemented with an extensive empirical analysis of 27 historical commissions that operated in different social and political contexts from 1990s to the present. The detailed examination of these cases gives a broad perspective into the potential capacities of historical commissions in different settings. Although only sampling the most recent cases, this volume shows how the steady increase of the number of historical commissions indicates that we are not dealing with a marginal phenomenon. The increased recognition of the potential of historical commissions to address the legacies of contested pasts and potential introduction of such commissions to transitional justice, makes this book highly relevant. This book has been written with the objective of deepening and broadening the existing knowledge on state-sponsored historical commissions. Its intended audiences are scholars and practitioners in the fields of historical theory, public history, and historical dialogue, transitional justice, peace and conflict studies.

A Critical Introduction to International Criminal Law

Author : Carsten Stahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108423205

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A Critical Introduction to International Criminal Law by Carsten Stahn Pdf

Presents theories, practices and critiques alongside each other to engage students, scholars and professionals from multiple fields. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Endgame

Author : David Rohde
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101575093

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Endgame by David Rohde Pdf

“Powerful… definitive… Rohde tells the Srebrenica story with all the shades of gray the truth demanded.” —The Washington Post In 1996, at the height of the Bosnian wars, a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor named David Rohde uncovered a horrifying story that became an enduring symbol of the genocidal nature of that conflict, earning him his first Pulitzer Prize. Endgame is the full-length narrative of the nightmare he stumbled upon in the town of Srebrenica, where a massacre of historic proportions has been allowed to happen due to the negligence of the United States, NATO, and the United Nations. Told through the eyes of the soldiers, peacekeepers, and civilians who were there, this is a vital, unforgettable work of history about an atrocity that could have been prevented.

Defeating Impunity

Author : Ornella Rovetta,Pieter Lagrou
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800732629

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Defeating Impunity by Ornella Rovetta,Pieter Lagrou Pdf

Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of international crime perpetrators ever stood trial, and a central challenge of this era was the effort to ensure that not all these crimes remained unpunished. This required not only establishing a legal record but also courage, determination, and inventiveness in realizing justice. Defeating Impunity moves from the little-known trials of the 1920s to the Yugoslavia tribunal in the 2000s, from Belgium in 1914 to Ukraine in 1943, and to Stuttgart and Düsseldorf in 1975. It illustrates the extent to which the language of law drew an international horizon of justice.

The Right to Truth in International Human Rights Law

Author : Julia Kertesz
Publisher : Editora Dialética
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9786559567164

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The Right to Truth in International Human Rights Law by Julia Kertesz Pdf

The present book addresses the right to truth in the field of international human rights law. The objective is to verify the outlines of this right that make it unique, and which justify its own (disputable) existence in the human rights scenario as a legally binding norm. Departing from a historical perspective of the emergence of this right in International Law, the intent is to analyze the multiple debates that have marked the development of the right to truth throughout the past decades. It is explored, therefore, how the a priori abstract notion of truth became a right and the strict relation this has with the social mobilizations of victims of gross violations of human rights. To accomplish this, the book spans across the struggle, in particular, of the relatives of disappeared victims during the 1970's and 1980's when the dictatorships reigned in Latin America. It follows on the expansion of the right to truth during what has been known as the fight against impunity, until it reaches the main human rights courts. To finalize, it discusses the inclusion of the right to truth in the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance and the measures more commonly used to realize such right. In the book, it is concluded that the right to truth carries a singularity that is crucial for the protection of victims of gross human rights violations.

The Struggle for Redress

Author : Jessie Barton-Hronešová
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030516222

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The Struggle for Redress by Jessie Barton-Hronešová Pdf

This book explores pathways to redress for main groups of victims/survivors of the 1992-5 Bosnian war —families of missing persons, victims of torture, survivors of sexual violence, and victims suffering physical disabilities and harm. The author traces the history of redress-making for each of these groups and shows how differently they have been treated by Bosnian authorities at the state and subnational level. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, thousands of war victims have had to suffer re-traumatising ordeals in order to secure partial redress for their suffering during 1992–1995 and after. While some, such as victims of sexual violence, have been legally recognised and offered financial and service-based compensation, others, such as victims of torture, have been recognized only recently with a clear geographical limitation. The main aim of the book is to explore the politics behind recognizing victimhood and awarding redress in a country that has been divided by instrumentalized identity cleavages, widespread patronage and debilitating war legacies. It shows how war victims/survivors navigate such fragmented and challenging public landscape in order to secure their rights.

Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author : Stef Jansen,Čarna Brković,Vanja Čelebičić
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317089261

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Negotiating Social Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Stef Jansen,Čarna Brković,Vanja Čelebičić Pdf

Exploring recent configurations of social relations in post-socialist, post-war, post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina this collection of ethnographic research turns an analytical lens on questions of sociality. Contributions based on long-term, in-depth research projects explore how people in different parts of BiH make and remake social relations and outline how their practices of sociality relate to donor-set priorities and formal human rights provisions. The book explores the socio-political concerns which have emerged within BiH, incites interdisciplinary conversations and sheds critical light on ways of engaging with these concerns and discusses forms of sociality, politics and agency which remain largely absent from the official political discourse and practice of local and foreign actors. Explicitly focusing on social relations in BiH against the historical background of both war and Yugoslav socialism, and directly placing these in relation to authoritative discourses and policies regarding BiH today brings the different strands together while the commentaries of specialists who have studied BiH in different ways explicitly situates the contribution of ethnographic work in the country.

Cultural Practices of Victimhood

Author : Martin Hoondert,Paul Mutsaers,William Arfman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351373807

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Cultural Practices of Victimhood by Martin Hoondert,Paul Mutsaers,William Arfman Pdf

Cultural Practices of Victimhood aims to set the agenda for a cultural study of victimhood. Words such as ‘victim’ and ‘victimhood’ represent shifting cultural signifiers, their meaning depending on the cultural context of their usage. Using case studies and through a practice-based approach, questions are asked about how victimhood is defined and constructed, whether in the ritual commemoration of refugees on Lampedusa, the artistic practices of an Aboriginal artist such as Richard Bell, or the media practices associated with police violence. Consisting of contributions by cultural studies experts with an interest in victim studies, this book seeks a double readership. On the one hand, it intends to break new ground with regards to a ‘cultural turn’ in the field of criminology, in particular victimology. On the other hand, it also seeks to open up discussions about a ‘victimological turn’ in culture studies. The volume invites scholars and advanced students active in both domains to reflect on victimhood in cultural practices.