The consequences of judicial obligations as a politics of transition in post-war Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia

Temida

关键词: victims;    transformation;    NGOs;    transitional justice;    reconciliation;   

DOI  :  10.2298/TEM1201179V

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper explores the idea of victimhood from the individual to societallevel within the context of transitional justice and reconciliation. The ideaof justice and truth has gained considerable prevalence within post-warstates in the Balkan region. The reform of the state has required theregeneration of society based on particular legal interpretations of thepolitical violence. As a result, an era of judicial obligations has come toframe how society regenerates, reforms and rehabilitates. Therefore the paperdiscusses the consequences of wartime victimization in terms of localresponses to how ‘the past is processed’ through Transitional Justiceinstitutions like the International Criminal Tribunal of Yugoslavia (ICTY),and associated ad-hoc mechanisms, like outreach programs. The establishmentof such judicial processes have set off particular questions like can societybe seen as victim? How is society victim? Using a socio-political approach,such questions are problematised through a political defeat paradigm toreveal a particular political anxiety that underwrites the new societies andtheir politics. This is where the idea of “state anxiety” and “politicaldefeat” are used to discuss what has locally formed out of such politics oftransition.

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