Overcoming Points of Dispute: 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.
Editorial Comment
The Role of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in the Institutionalization of International Criminal Justice
Created in 1993 by the United Nations Security Council, the Tribunal helped turn international criminal law into functioning institutions - prosecuting senior leaders and rejecting official status as a shield. From Article 7(2) to the 1999 indictment of Slobodan Milošević, its legacy shows how accountability can operate even during conflict- and why today’s crises, including Gaza, expose the cost of weak or absent enforcement.
Editorial Comment
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.