Investigating Srebrenica

Institutions, Facts, Responsibilities
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-472-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: Contemporary European History

In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army commanded by General Ratko Mladic attacked the enclave of Srebrenica, a UN “safe area” since 1993, and massacred about 8,000 Bosniac men. While the responsibility for the massacre itself lays clearly with the Serb political and military leadership, the question of the responsibility of various international organizations and national authorities for the fall of the enclave is still passionately discussed, and has given rise to various rumors and conspiracy theories. Follow-up investigations by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and by several commissions have dissipated most of these rumors and contributed to a better knowledge of the Srebrenica events and the part played by the main local and international actors. This volume represents the first systematic, comparative analysis of those investigations. It brings together analyses from both the external standpoint of academics and the inside perspective of various professionals who participated directly in the inquiries, including police officers, members of parliament, high-ranking civil servants, and other experts. Evaluating how institutions establish facts and ascribe responsibilities, this volume presents a historiographical and epistemological reflection on the very possibility of writing a history of the present time.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delpla, Isabelle

Bougarel, Xavier

Fournel, Jean-Louis

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of maps

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations and acronyms

List of the Srebrenica reports and websites

Chronology and Maps

Introduction: The Judge, the Historian, and the Legislator

Isabelle Delpla, Xavier Bougarel and Jean-Louis Fournel

Chapter 1. The ICTY Investigations

Jean-René Ruez

Chapter 2. Introduction to the “Report-Form”: Characteristics and Temporalities of a Production of Public Truth

Jean-Louis Fournel

Chapter 3. Reassessing the French Parliamentary Fact-Finding Mission on Srebrenica

Pierre Brana

Chapter 4. A Tale of Two Commissions: Dutch Parliamentary Inquiries during the Srebrenica-Aftermath

Christ Klep

Chapter 5. Reflecting on the Dutch NIOD Report: Academic Logic and the Culture of Consensus

Pieter Lagrou

Chapter 6. Reopening the Wounds? The Parliament of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Question of Bosniak Responsibilities

Xavier Bougarel

Chapter 7. The Long Way to Admission: The Report of the Government of the Republika Srpska

Michèle Picard and Asta Zinbo

Chapter 8. Facts, Responsibility, Intelligibility: Comparing the Investigations and Reports

Isabelle Delpla

Bibliography

Notes on contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bougarel, Xavier
Xavier Bougarel is Researcher at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. He is currently researching the wars of the 1990s and their aftermath in the former Yugoslavia and the transformations of Islam in the post-Communist Balkans.

Delpla, Isabelle
Isabelle Delpla is Professor of Philosophy at University Jean Moulin-Lyon III. Her research focuses on international ethics and justice and the relationships between philosophy and anthropology. She has conducted fieldwork in Bosnia with victim associations, Hague witnesses, and convicted war criminals.

Fournel, Jean-Louis
Jean-Louis Fournel is Professor at the University of Paris VIII. His research focuses on the history of warfare, political thought, and the rhetoric of the Italian Renaissance. Between 1997 and 2001, he directed several European cooperation programs with universities in Bosnia- Herzegovina. In 1994, while the city was under siege, he co-organized the initiative for a sister relationship between his university and that of Sarajevo.

Isabelle Delpla is Professor of Philosophy at University Jean Moulin-Lyon III. Her research focuses on international ethics and justice and the relationships between philosophy and anthropology. She has conducted fieldwork in Bosnia with victim associations, Hague witnesses, and convicted war criminals.