Overcoming Points of Contention: Transgenerational Confrontation with the Legacy of the Armed Conflicts of the 1990s in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia

This blog series emerges from an intensive Module 4 mentoring process focused on primary judicial sources of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Treating ICTY records as living materials, the posts examine how international criminal law constructs facts and responsibility—while tracing its limits in meeting the demands of history, memory, and reconciliation. Across institutional development, sexual violence jurisprudence, the Erdemović duress debate, and “legal” versus “historical” truth in the Gotovina case, the series offers guided, interdisciplinary reflections on law’s role in post-conflict societies.

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