- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Last Testament of the ICTY
- 2 Making Complementarity a Reality
- 3 The ICTY and the Defence Legacy
- 4 The Moral Legacy of the ICTY
- 5 The ICTY is Dead! Long Live the ICTY!
- 6 Legacies in the Making at the ICTY
- 7 The Narrative Legacies of Exceptional Crime
- 8 Meandering Jurisprudence and Unanticipated Legacies
- 9 Symbolic Expression at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- 10 A Partial View of History
- 11 Handle with Care
- 12 Lessons Learned from the Use of DNA Evidence in Srebrenica-related Trials at the ICTY
- 13 Whither Thou Truth and Justice
- 14 Defence Investigative Ethics
- 15 Judgments and Judgment Drafting
- 16 Muzzling the Press
- 17 Translating and Interpreting at the ICTY
- 18 Was it Worth it?
- 19 The Legacy of Youth Outreach at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- 20 Punishing for Humanity
- 21 Vertical Inconsistency of International Sentencing? The ICTY and Domestic Courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 22 When Justice is Done
- 23 Narratives of Justice and War in Croatia
- 24 The Legacy of the ICTY
- 25 Cooperation between Serbia and the ICTY for the Investigation and Prosecution of Violations of International Humanitarian Law
- 26 ‘We Learnt that from The Hague’
- 27 The Peace versus Justice Debate Revisited
- 28 Croatia’s Homeland War, the Battles Over Victor’s Justice, and the Legacy of the ICTY
- 29 The (Lack of) Impact of the ICTY on the Public Memory of the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 30 The Broken Path to Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 31 The ICTY, Truth, and Reconciliation
- Name Index
- Subject Index
The Broken Path to Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Broken Path to Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
A Field Study of Memories
- Chapter:
- (p.571) 30 The Broken Path to Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Source:
- Legacies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Author(s):
Rosa Aloisi
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has delivered judgments adjudicating some of the most heinous crimes committed in the Balkans. As the Tribunal’s work comes to an end, judges leave behind a ‘memorial of words’ providing a vivid description of events and sites of atrocities. However, today local authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) use the same places where crimes were committed as a political tool of denial and battleground of ethnic divisions. This chapter assesses the tensions between the truth recounted by the ICTY and the construction of the local collective memory through an analysis of how the sites of atrocities are being used. This chapter argues that, while international justice offers some resolution to a post-war divided society, a full reconciliation is only possible when the communities acknowledge the occurrence of atrocities and the right of victims to visit these places to mourn and remember.
Keywords: memorial of words, truth, collective memory, full reconciliation, resolution, international justice
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Legislation
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Last Testament of the ICTY
- 2 Making Complementarity a Reality
- 3 The ICTY and the Defence Legacy
- 4 The Moral Legacy of the ICTY
- 5 The ICTY is Dead! Long Live the ICTY!
- 6 Legacies in the Making at the ICTY
- 7 The Narrative Legacies of Exceptional Crime
- 8 Meandering Jurisprudence and Unanticipated Legacies
- 9 Symbolic Expression at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- 10 A Partial View of History
- 11 Handle with Care
- 12 Lessons Learned from the Use of DNA Evidence in Srebrenica-related Trials at the ICTY
- 13 Whither Thou Truth and Justice
- 14 Defence Investigative Ethics
- 15 Judgments and Judgment Drafting
- 16 Muzzling the Press
- 17 Translating and Interpreting at the ICTY
- 18 Was it Worth it?
- 19 The Legacy of Youth Outreach at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- 20 Punishing for Humanity
- 21 Vertical Inconsistency of International Sentencing? The ICTY and Domestic Courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 22 When Justice is Done
- 23 Narratives of Justice and War in Croatia
- 24 The Legacy of the ICTY
- 25 Cooperation between Serbia and the ICTY for the Investigation and Prosecution of Violations of International Humanitarian Law
- 26 ‘We Learnt that from The Hague’
- 27 The Peace versus Justice Debate Revisited
- 28 Croatia’s Homeland War, the Battles Over Victor’s Justice, and the Legacy of the ICTY
- 29 The (Lack of) Impact of the ICTY on the Public Memory of the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 30 The Broken Path to Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 31 The ICTY, Truth, and Reconciliation
- Name Index
- Subject Index