Conflict

Transitional Justice in the Conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Christopher Stampar

The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a clash of several ethnic communities fighting largely over territory, was so brutal and horrific that it prompted the International Criminal Court to launch the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, before the conflict had even ended. Eleven years after the court was created, they issued a publication entitled “The Tribunal’s Accomplishments in Justice and Law,” which outlined the achievements the court believed it had made since its inception. The purpose of this paper is to analyze four of the six claims made by the Tribunal to see whether their arguments were true and accurate, and what the effects of those purported claims were for transitional justice in Yugoslavia.

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