Hovering over the peace negotiations in progress in former Yugoslavia is the international community's determination to bring to trial as war criminals those political and military leaders responsible for atrocities in Bosnia. The question clearly presented is that, however desirable the idea of war crimes accountability might appear in the abstract, pursuing the goal of a war crimes tribunal m...

on 26 february 2007, the international court of justice issued it's judgment on the application of the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide (bosnia and herzegovina v.serbia and montenegro). the court finds that serbia has not committed genocide, through its organs or persons whose acts engage its responsibility under customary international law, in violation...

Abstract The most relevant collection for studying the wars accompanying breakup of Yugoslavia, which resulted in over 130,000 dead or missing, is archive International Criminal Tribunal Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Hague. established by UN Security Council 1993 to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity, and war indicted 161 people had accumulated millions pages testimony, military police repo...

In an earlier piece, I discussed the findings of a series of public opinion surveys in the former Yugoslavia, probing the attitudes of the respondent populations regarding the mass atrocities committed during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, such as the Srebrenica genocide. That article concluded that the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the first modern, postNur...

Seeking to explain the difficult cases of delayed democratic transition in theWestern Balkans, recent literature argues that ‘national identity’ significantly limits the effectiveness of external actors’ political conditionality. This argument is tested in this article by investigating Serbia’s co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was dem...

after occurring massive crimes at countries such as rwanda and primer yugoslavia, several courts started to prosecute criminals. for former yugoslavia, icty and for rwanda domestic courts, gacaca, foreign domestic courts were prosecuting the crimes. this approach caused that international criminal law plays a completely different role compared to internal law. pursuant to development of interna...