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Commentary
Beyond trial justice in the former Yugoslavia
Article first published online: 24 FEB 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2012.00461.x
© 2012 The Authors. The Geographical Journal © 2012 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
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How to Cite
Jeffrey, A. and Jakala, M. (2012), Beyond trial justice in the former Yugoslavia. The Geographical Journal, 178: 290–295. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2012.00461.x
Publication History
- Issue published online: 5 NOV 2012
- Article first published online: 24 FEB 2012
- This paper was accepted for publication in January 2012
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Keywords:
- transitional justice;
- Bosnia and Herzegovina;
- political geography
The arrest of Ratko Mladić on 26 May 2011 and his almost immediate deportation to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has underscored the significance of international legal institutions to the enactment of transitional justice. In this commentary we will seek to illustrate some alternative discourses and practices of transitional justice emerging across the former Yugoslavia. In particular we analyse a 6-year initiative led by civil society groups to establish a truth commission for the former Yugoslavia, entitled the ‘Regional Commission for Establishing the Facts about War Crimes and Other Gross Violations of Human Rights Committed on the Territory of the former Yugoslavia’ (or RECOM). In so doing, we illuminate a number of areas of geographical concern in the study of transitional justice: from the lingering significance of state sovereignty to the imagined geographies of regional cooperation.