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.
Dusan Jovanovic graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Law. During his studies he interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and at Serbia’s War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office. After graduating, he worked at the Belgrade-based HumanitarianLawCenter, a civil society organization working on war crimes research. He coordinated an outreach project at the OSCE […]
Read MoreThe second Regional Transitional Justice School was opened today, November 19th, 2013, at the premises of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC). The School, organized again this year by the HLC, the Association Pravnik from Sarajevo, and the Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo represents a ten-day education programme on instruments for dealing with the past. 25 students […]
Read MoreDr Damir Arsenijević works in the fields of critical theory and psychoanalysis. His art and theoretical interventions establish settings for the discussion of painful topics after the war and genocide in former Yugoslavia as our commons. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Professor at the Department of Rhetoric, UC Berkeley in 2011/12. Currently, he […]
Read MoreBekim Blakaj studied Organizational Sciences at Belgrade University. Since 2000 he has been enrolled into the work of HLC Kosovo, firstly as researcher and later as project coordinator. In 2006 Mr. Blakaj became Head of HLC Kosovo leading the organization towards its independence in 2011 and now serves as Executive Director of HLC Kosovo. His […]
Read MoreOrli Fridman is the Academic Director of the SIT Study Abroad program in the Balkans (Post-Conflict Transformation in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia) and a lecturer at the MA program in Conflict Studies at the Faculty for Media and Communication (FMK) at the Singidunum University (Belgrade). Since 1994, Orli has been involved in political education. […]
Read MoreMarijana Toma coordinates the Programme of Education on Strategies and Experiences of the Transitional Justice Process in the former Yugoslavia. She joined the HLC team in 2003, where she worked as Project and Programme Coordinator on documenting war crimes, oral history, forced disappearances and Transitional Justice. During the past 12 years, she has been involved […]
Read MorePrior to being appointed Executive Director of the HLC, Sandra Orlović spent five years managing a team of researchers and analysts on the Kosovo Memory Book Project. During the same period, she was the Deputy to the then Executive Director, Nataša Kandić. She had joined the HLC team in 2005. In the beginning, she worked as a […]
Read MoreVladimir Milanovic, historian and archivist, is the Chief Archivist of the Archives of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), where he also coordinates the project Transfer of the ICTY archives (THA). The aim of the project is to transfer the public archives, as well as documentation of the judicial database (JDB) of the ICTY. Vladimir Milanovic […]
Read MoreMr. Predrag Miletić, researcher/analyst Predrag Miletić joined the HLC team in 2005. Since then, he has been working as an researcher and analyst on the Kosovo Memory Book Project, and since 2007, as a coordinator of the HLC’s war crimes and human rigths violation database. During 2011-2012 he was working on a project of building […]
Read MoreO Školi Regionalna škola tranzicione pravde je desetodnevni program neformalnog obrazovanja o instrumentima za suočavanje sa prošlošću. Polaznici Škole slušaće predavanja o utvrđenim činjenicama na sudskim procesima pred Haškim tribunalom i nacionalnim suđenjima za ratne zločine, vansudskim mehanizmima za utvrđivanje činjenica o zločinima iz prošlosti, pravu žrtava kršenja ljudskih prava na reparacije i doprinosu […]
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