LEXISNEXIS SUMMARY: ... Dah's ultimate aim is to use theatre as a mode of reconciliation acr... more LEXISNEXIS SUMMARY: ... Dah's ultimate aim is to use theatre as a mode of reconciliation across ethnic and religious lines that were produced by bloodshed and reinforced by nationalist elite politics. ... Crossing the Lines This paper is based on an interview conducted on 9 ...
This paper focuses on one space of mass rape during the Bosnian war: The Vilina Vlas Hotel in Viꥧ... more This paper focuses on one space of mass rape during the Bosnian war: The Vilina Vlas Hotel in Viꥧrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By analysing Jasmila nic's film, For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, the potential of cinema to address ethno-nationalistic tensions and contribute to the pursuit of justice is considered. In post-war BiH, dealing with past war crimes is a delicate and contentious process, and many scholars are critical of the International Criminal Tribunal's approach to the challenges of rape as a war crime. This paper considers whether cinema contributes to the truth-seeking aspect of this process. It is argued that nic uses her film as a strategy for resistance, intervention, and justice, while promoting symbolic reparation.
Perpetrators’ voices have been traditionally ignored in the transitional justice field and beyond... more Perpetrators’ voices have been traditionally ignored in the transitional justice field and beyond. Esad Landžo was only 19 when he committed the crimes of willful killing, torturing, and causing serious injury to the detainees of notorious Čelebići camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2001, Landžo was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for the crimes he committed in 1992. After serving two thirds of his sentence in 2006 and settling in Finland, Landžo and the Danish filmmaker, Lars Feldballe Petersen, embarked on the project of making a documentary movie about Landžo’s traumatic memories, remorse, and regret. Landžo had a strong urge to extend his apology to each victim individually and in 2015 went to Čelebići to meet his former detainees. This article will build on a scarce conversation in scholarly, and legal discourse, as to why psychological trauma is considered to be an experience that belongs to victims. It will ...
‘Space’ has become a keyword in a variety of critical approaches to the study of culture, and the... more ‘Space’ has become a keyword in a variety of critical approaches to the study of culture, and the ‘spatial turn’ — the acknowledgment of the constitutive role of space in social relations — has proved to be a productive one in a range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences (see e.g. Buck-Morss 1983; Innis 1951; Lefebvre 1991; Soja 1989; Thrift 2002). The identity of spaces is very much connected to the histories which are recounted about them, how those histories are narrated and which interpretation of history becomes dominant. Hundreds of diverse locations across today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are associated with the armed conflicts of the the 1990s — these are the spaces that witnessed rape, torture and massacres. Some of these were purpose-built, but many everyday ordinary places were also transformed. For example, schools, sports halls and hotels were reworked for ‘extraordinary’ purposes into spaces of crime.
Regulation of Sexual Conduct in UN Peacekeeping Operations, 2012
This introductory chapter consists of two parts. The first part of the chapter provides a brief o... more This introductory chapter consists of two parts. The first part of the chapter provides a brief overview of the problem of sexual exploitation in peacekeeping operations (PKOs) that eventually prompted the zero tolerance policy (ZTP). The second part of the chapter outlines the purpose and scope of the book. The third part describes the methodology adopted in the empirical research, while the final part outlines the structure of the book and provides a brief overview of each chapter.
This chapter provides an overview of the contributions that Peace Psychologists have made to the ... more This chapter provides an overview of the contributions that Peace Psychologists have made to the understanding of conflict and peace in the Balkan region. The recent history of physical violence in Balkan nations, such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia and Romania, make this an important area of analysis given its potential to broaden our understanding of peace and conflict processes world-wide. The analysis provided in this chapter is multi-directional in its consideration of past, present and future realities. Explanations for the history of conflict in the region are identified, the present realities of peace and conflict explored and pathways to a more peaceful future proposed. The analysis is also multi-faceted considering both micro-level and macro-level factors relevant to the history and future of peace in the region. Micro-level factors, such as social norms, individual attitudes and relations to other ethnic groups, are shown to have complex interactions with macro-level factors, such as politics and economics, in predicting both peace and violence in the Balkan region. The analysis is relevant to academic disciplines as diverse as peace studies, politics and sociology, but remains firmly embedded within a peace psychological framework.
Regulation of Sexual Conduct in UN Peacekeeping Operations, 2012
This chapter aims to explore the policy and legal responses that followed the emergence of the pr... more This chapter aims to explore the policy and legal responses that followed the emergence of the problem of sexual exploitation in peacekeeping operations (PKOs). The chapter will describe the official responses to the problem that led eventually to the promulgation of the Secretary-General’s Bulletin (SGB) and its provisions in relation to prostitution and sexual relationships. It evaluates the reception of the SGB by researchers who undertook empirical studies into sexual exploitation in PKOs between 2003 and 2008. It begins by tracing the development of institutional responses to alleged sexual exploitation, and describes and analyses these developments in three stages. Drawing on feminist scholarship and the work of the few critics of the policy, the chapter concludes that the zero tolerance policy is an inappropriate response to the problem of sexual exploitation in PKOs, because it treats all sex between peacekeepers and beneficiaries as exploitative, which is inconsistent with international human rights law.
Transitional Justice and Civil Society in the Balkans, 2012
This chapter engages with the key themes explored in this volume. It gives an overview of the civ... more This chapter engages with the key themes explored in this volume. It gives an overview of the civil society and the pursuit of transitional justice in the Balkans and connects these broader themes to the specific insights offered by the scholars in this volume. The history of war and violence in Balkan nations, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania and Romania, makes this an important area of analysis. While the analysis is situated in the particular context of the Balkan region, it has a potential to broaden our understanding of civil society engagements with transitional justice processes globally. The analysis provided in this chapter is multidirectional and offers explanations for the history of civil society in general, and its development in the Balkan region in particular. The chapter also provides an overview of the region and transitional justice field. The analysis is relevant to academic disciplines as diverse as legal studies, criminology, social psychology, media, politics, and sociology, while remaining embedded within a transitional justice framework.
Feminist research on peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina has focused on women’s peace activi... more Feminist research on peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina has focused on women’s peace activism, so broader efforts taken by mixed-gender civil society groups have largely remained invisible. This article aims to shed light on the joint peace-building efforts by a group of young women and men from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia who have crossed ethnic and gender borders with the aim of working together on long-term sustainable peace in the region. Through the use of multimedia and public seminars, as well as training offered to war veterans and young people from across the former Yugoslavia, Centar za nenasilnu akciju [Centre for Nonviolent Action] (CNA) has become an important voice in rebuilding peace in the region. The article emphasizes the importance of CNA’s work and offers an auto-ethnographical perspective that illustrates the author’s use of CNA materials in her teaching on gender, war and peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Australia.
Feminist research on peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina has focused on women’s peace activi... more Feminist research on peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina has focused on women’s peace activism, so broader efforts taken by mixed-gender civil society groups have largely remained invisible. This article aims to shed light on the joint peace-building efforts by a group of young women and men from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia who have crossed ethnic and gender borders with the aim of working together on long-term sustainable peace in the region. Through the use of multimedia and public seminars, as well as training offered to war veterans and young people from across the former Yugoslavia, Centar za nenasilnu akciju [Centre for Nonviolent Action] (CNA) has become an important voice in rebuilding peace in the region. The article emphasizes the importance of CNA’s work and offers an auto-ethnographical perspective that illustrates the author’s use of CNA materials in her teaching on gender, war and peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Australia.
LEXISNEXIS SUMMARY: ... Dah's ultimate aim is to use theatre as a mode of reconciliation acr... more LEXISNEXIS SUMMARY: ... Dah's ultimate aim is to use theatre as a mode of reconciliation across ethnic and religious lines that were produced by bloodshed and reinforced by nationalist elite politics. ... Crossing the Lines This paper is based on an interview conducted on 9 ...
This paper focuses on one space of mass rape during the Bosnian war: The Vilina Vlas Hotel in Viꥧ... more This paper focuses on one space of mass rape during the Bosnian war: The Vilina Vlas Hotel in Viꥧrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina. By analysing Jasmila nic's film, For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, the potential of cinema to address ethno-nationalistic tensions and contribute to the pursuit of justice is considered. In post-war BiH, dealing with past war crimes is a delicate and contentious process, and many scholars are critical of the International Criminal Tribunal's approach to the challenges of rape as a war crime. This paper considers whether cinema contributes to the truth-seeking aspect of this process. It is argued that nic uses her film as a strategy for resistance, intervention, and justice, while promoting symbolic reparation.
Perpetrators’ voices have been traditionally ignored in the transitional justice field and beyond... more Perpetrators’ voices have been traditionally ignored in the transitional justice field and beyond. Esad Landžo was only 19 when he committed the crimes of willful killing, torturing, and causing serious injury to the detainees of notorious Čelebići camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2001, Landžo was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for the crimes he committed in 1992. After serving two thirds of his sentence in 2006 and settling in Finland, Landžo and the Danish filmmaker, Lars Feldballe Petersen, embarked on the project of making a documentary movie about Landžo’s traumatic memories, remorse, and regret. Landžo had a strong urge to extend his apology to each victim individually and in 2015 went to Čelebići to meet his former detainees. This article will build on a scarce conversation in scholarly, and legal discourse, as to why psychological trauma is considered to be an experience that belongs to victims. It will ...
‘Space’ has become a keyword in a variety of critical approaches to the study of culture, and the... more ‘Space’ has become a keyword in a variety of critical approaches to the study of culture, and the ‘spatial turn’ — the acknowledgment of the constitutive role of space in social relations — has proved to be a productive one in a range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences (see e.g. Buck-Morss 1983; Innis 1951; Lefebvre 1991; Soja 1989; Thrift 2002). The identity of spaces is very much connected to the histories which are recounted about them, how those histories are narrated and which interpretation of history becomes dominant. Hundreds of diverse locations across today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are associated with the armed conflicts of the the 1990s — these are the spaces that witnessed rape, torture and massacres. Some of these were purpose-built, but many everyday ordinary places were also transformed. For example, schools, sports halls and hotels were reworked for ‘extraordinary’ purposes into spaces of crime.
Regulation of Sexual Conduct in UN Peacekeeping Operations, 2012
This introductory chapter consists of two parts. The first part of the chapter provides a brief o... more This introductory chapter consists of two parts. The first part of the chapter provides a brief overview of the problem of sexual exploitation in peacekeeping operations (PKOs) that eventually prompted the zero tolerance policy (ZTP). The second part of the chapter outlines the purpose and scope of the book. The third part describes the methodology adopted in the empirical research, while the final part outlines the structure of the book and provides a brief overview of each chapter.
This chapter provides an overview of the contributions that Peace Psychologists have made to the ... more This chapter provides an overview of the contributions that Peace Psychologists have made to the understanding of conflict and peace in the Balkan region. The recent history of physical violence in Balkan nations, such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia and Romania, make this an important area of analysis given its potential to broaden our understanding of peace and conflict processes world-wide. The analysis provided in this chapter is multi-directional in its consideration of past, present and future realities. Explanations for the history of conflict in the region are identified, the present realities of peace and conflict explored and pathways to a more peaceful future proposed. The analysis is also multi-faceted considering both micro-level and macro-level factors relevant to the history and future of peace in the region. Micro-level factors, such as social norms, individual attitudes and relations to other ethnic groups, are shown to have complex interactions with macro-level factors, such as politics and economics, in predicting both peace and violence in the Balkan region. The analysis is relevant to academic disciplines as diverse as peace studies, politics and sociology, but remains firmly embedded within a peace psychological framework.
Regulation of Sexual Conduct in UN Peacekeeping Operations, 2012
This chapter aims to explore the policy and legal responses that followed the emergence of the pr... more This chapter aims to explore the policy and legal responses that followed the emergence of the problem of sexual exploitation in peacekeeping operations (PKOs). The chapter will describe the official responses to the problem that led eventually to the promulgation of the Secretary-General’s Bulletin (SGB) and its provisions in relation to prostitution and sexual relationships. It evaluates the reception of the SGB by researchers who undertook empirical studies into sexual exploitation in PKOs between 2003 and 2008. It begins by tracing the development of institutional responses to alleged sexual exploitation, and describes and analyses these developments in three stages. Drawing on feminist scholarship and the work of the few critics of the policy, the chapter concludes that the zero tolerance policy is an inappropriate response to the problem of sexual exploitation in PKOs, because it treats all sex between peacekeepers and beneficiaries as exploitative, which is inconsistent with international human rights law.
Transitional Justice and Civil Society in the Balkans, 2012
This chapter engages with the key themes explored in this volume. It gives an overview of the civ... more This chapter engages with the key themes explored in this volume. It gives an overview of the civil society and the pursuit of transitional justice in the Balkans and connects these broader themes to the specific insights offered by the scholars in this volume. The history of war and violence in Balkan nations, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania and Romania, makes this an important area of analysis. While the analysis is situated in the particular context of the Balkan region, it has a potential to broaden our understanding of civil society engagements with transitional justice processes globally. The analysis provided in this chapter is multidirectional and offers explanations for the history of civil society in general, and its development in the Balkan region in particular. The chapter also provides an overview of the region and transitional justice field. The analysis is relevant to academic disciplines as diverse as legal studies, criminology, social psychology, media, politics, and sociology, while remaining embedded within a transitional justice framework.
Feminist research on peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina has focused on women’s peace activi... more Feminist research on peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina has focused on women’s peace activism, so broader efforts taken by mixed-gender civil society groups have largely remained invisible. This article aims to shed light on the joint peace-building efforts by a group of young women and men from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia who have crossed ethnic and gender borders with the aim of working together on long-term sustainable peace in the region. Through the use of multimedia and public seminars, as well as training offered to war veterans and young people from across the former Yugoslavia, Centar za nenasilnu akciju [Centre for Nonviolent Action] (CNA) has become an important voice in rebuilding peace in the region. The article emphasizes the importance of CNA’s work and offers an auto-ethnographical perspective that illustrates the author’s use of CNA materials in her teaching on gender, war and peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Australia.
Feminist research on peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina has focused on women’s peace activi... more Feminist research on peace building in Bosnia and Herzegovina has focused on women’s peace activism, so broader efforts taken by mixed-gender civil society groups have largely remained invisible. This article aims to shed light on the joint peace-building efforts by a group of young women and men from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia who have crossed ethnic and gender borders with the aim of working together on long-term sustainable peace in the region. Through the use of multimedia and public seminars, as well as training offered to war veterans and young people from across the former Yugoslavia, Centar za nenasilnu akciju [Centre for Nonviolent Action] (CNA) has become an important voice in rebuilding peace in the region. The article emphasizes the importance of CNA’s work and offers an auto-ethnographical perspective that illustrates the author’s use of CNA materials in her teaching on gender, war and peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Australia.
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