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Violence and peace: Leverage of international justice mechanisms and instruments?
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Abstract
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| Over the last century, world (legal) history testifies of horrific atrocities committed, engendering, and causing mayhem to humankind in general by its catastrophic outcomes. As an after effect, there have been established international justice mechanisms and instruments with an aim to institutionally condemn and sentence acts that have been carried out, at the international level. These mechanisms and instruments are often considered as mediating institutions within clashed societies for their role is usually introduced in terms of internationally acknowledged means of reconciliation. A question that arises is how these justice mechanisms and instruments stir the process of peacebuilding and peacekeeping towards reconciliation after violence occurred in so-called transitional societies. Raising this question also concerns addressing the past events which are the most vexed questions between former parties in conflict. Analysis of the post-conflict period in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, East Timor, Kosovo, etc. is of great importance to that effect. Therefore, this paper examines the influence, efficacy as well as prospects of international justice mechanisms and instruments (military tribunals, ad hoc tribunals, special courts) in terms of accepting the institutionally recognized past in the post-violence period within clashed societies. |
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English
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Source (book)
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ICECI 2013: International Conference on Education, Culture and Identity
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Publication
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Sarajevo
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International University of Sarajevo
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2013
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978-9958-896-16-3
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p. 463-471
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