In a region where multiple interpretations of the recent past are still in collision with each other and where facts are misused for exclusive narratives of single-community victimhood, the process of reconciliation continues to be delayed and obstructed. The various ethnic groups in the region continue to hold conflicting views of their joint history, while denial and justification of crimes are still widespread, in spite of the wealth of judicially established facts and available evidence.
The topics of this lecture are the philosophical concept of justice in post-conflict societies, how to achieve justice in the aftermath of atrocities, justice as a socially defined concept, and the distinction between individual and collective guilt and responsibility. The goal of this lecture is to present a definition and historical foundation for transitional justice, and its main objectives and the mechanisms to achieve these goals, through the presentation of examples of countries with successful and unsuccessful experiences in dealing with the burden of massive human rights violations in the past...
‘Education for Reconciliation’ is a film produced by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on the Regional School for Transitional Justice, organized in January 2013, for 25 participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Serbia by HLC, HLC Kosovo and Association Pravnik from B&H.
In a region where multiple interpretations of the recent past are still in collision with each other and where facts are misused for exclusive narratives of single-community victimhood, the process of reconciliation continues to be delayed and obstructed. The various ethnic groups in the region continue to hold conflicting views of their joint history, while denial and justification of crimes are still widespread, in spite of the wealth of judicially established facts and available evidence.
The topics of this lecture are the philosophical concept of justice in post-conflict societies, how to achieve justice in the aftermath of atrocities, justice as a socially defined concept, and the distinction between individual and collective guilt and responsibility. The goal of this lecture is to present a definition and historical foundation for transitional justice, and its main objectives and the mechanisms to achieve these goals, through the presentation of examples of countries with successful and unsuccessful experiences in dealing with the burden of massive human rights violations in the past...
‘Education for Reconciliation’ is a film produced by the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) on the Regional School for Transitional Justice, organized in January 2013, for 25 participants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Serbia by HLC, HLC Kosovo and Association Pravnik from B&H.
Višnja Šijačić – in her paper “Transitional Justice in Serbia (the right to truth, the right to reparation, the right to non-recurrence) Reparation: Symbolic Reparation in Serbia” she analyzed the problem of symbolic reparation in Serbia. Goran Zorić – in his paper “Case Study: Prijedor – Symbolic Reparation”, he analyzed the problem of […]
Read MoreJovana Spremo – in her paper titled “ICTY Trials – Popović et al.“ she analyzed the judicial facts established before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the case of Srebrenica: Popović et al. Srđan Vidačković – analyzed in his paper “Srebrenica – Trial of Radoslav Krstić” the judicial facts established […]
Read MoreJasmin Hamzić – analyzed in his paper “Transitional Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina-the right to truth” the weaknesses of one of the mechanisms of transitional justice in BiH, namely the right to truth. Denis Puteš – analyzed four mechanisms of transitional justice in his paper “Transitional Justice in BiH: The Right to Truth” […]
Read MoreDonika Prekaj – analyzed the role of opening media archives in the reconciliation process on the territory of the former Yugoslavia in her paper titled “The role of archive media in the reconciliation process”. Aldin Zenović – in his paper titled “Role of media in process of establishing responsibility”, he analyzed the media […]
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Od 01 do 02. februara 2014. godine, u biblioteci Fonda za humanitarno pravo održaće se završni seminar Regionalne škole za tranzicionu pravdu u organizaciji Fonda za humanitarno pravo, Fonda za humanitarno pravo Kosovo i Udruženja Pravnik iz Sarajeva, na kome će biti predstavljeni završni radovi studenata i dodeljene diplome. Dodela diploma biće održana u nedelju, […]
Read MoreTihomir Cipek, Ph.D., a political scientist, is a full time professor at the Faculty of Political Science in Zagreb. In 2006, he won the Croatian National Award for Science. On two occasions, he served as president of the Croatian Political Science Association, today he is the Head of the Croatian Politics Department of the Faculty […]
Read MoreDinko Gruhonjic is a journalist. He is president of Independent Journalists Association of Vojvodina, editor in Beta News Agency and Autonomija info-portal. He teaches journalism on Faculty of Philosophy/Media Department on Novi Sad University. Dinko is also civil right defender and public advocate for RECOM Initiative.
Read MoreMidhat Izmirlija is a PhD candidate and Assistant Lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Sarajevo where he teaches seminars on human rights and theory of law and state. His research focuses on transitional justice, democratization and theory of law. Midhat Izmirlija holds masters degree in law from the University of Sarajevo and […]
Read MoreSince 2005 Nemanja Stjepanovic works for SENSE Tribunal, a specialized news agency that provides regular and reliable information on all relevant developments at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice. SENSE reports are used by the media and the public in the former Yugoslavia. He covers the numerous Hague trials concerning the crimes in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Previously he worked as journalist for a weekly TV magazine VIN, and as media analyst of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights. Currently Stjepanovic […]
Read MoreRadina Vučetić is Assistant Professor of General Modern History, Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Her PhD thesis was on the Americanization of Yugoslav Popular Culture in the 1960s. As a post-doc fellow, she is currently affiliated with the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung (Potsdam) in the project Physical Violence and State Legitimacy […]
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