Book Launch—Some Kind of Justice: The ICTY’s Impact in Bosnia and Serbia
Where: Open Society Foundations–New York
224 W. 57th St.
212-548-0600 Price: Free
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Since its creation in 1993, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has amassed the most extensive record of any war crimes tribunal in history. While its contributions to international law and institutions have been widely analyzed, the tribunal has also had a profound impact in countries directly affected by its work. It offers a unique case study of how the ICTY’s impact changes over time—and why.
At this event, author Diane Orentlicher will be discussing her new book assessing the record of the ICTY, Some Kind of Justice. The book draws on hundreds of interviews by the author, and highlights the perspectives of Bosnian and Serbian citizens, while drawing on a rich body of inter-disciplinary research about the Tribunal’s local impact.
While most analyses of the ICTY have focused on its global impact (for example, its influential jurisprudence), Some Kind of Justice engages with the Tribunal’s most important audience—the former Yugoslavia.
Speakers
- Diane Orentlicher is professor of international law at the Washington College of Law at the American University, Washington D.C.
- Pablo de Greiff is the former UN special rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence.
- Anna Myriam Roccatello is deputy executive director and director of programs for the the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ).
- David Tolbert is the former president of the ICTJ.
- Tea Sefer is a Bosnian American peace activist.
- James A. Goldston (moderator) is executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative.