Archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY): Addressing impunity, creating history
Wednesday 09 November 2022 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Yangtze Theatre, 2/F Centre Building, London School of Economics and Political Science, London (UK)
Hosted by the LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe
Speakers
Dr Iva Vukušić
Professor Jasna Dragović-Soso
Discussant
Dr Ivor Sokolić
Chair
Dr Denisa Kostovicova
After the upcoming last trials at the Residual Mechanism (IRMCT), the daughter institution of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the first international criminal tribunal will continue to shape history and politics of post-Yugoslav states through research facilitated by its archives. The panel evaluates critically the opportunities the ICTY archives afford to researchers, along with ways in which latest research has illuminated the quest for justice and the recent history of the region.
Meet our speaker, discussants and chair
Iva Vukušić (@VukusicIva) is an Assistant Professor in International History at Utrecht University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She is a historian and a genocide scholar, and her work is on irregular armed groups, genocide, mass violence and transitional justice, especially criminal accountability. Before coming to The Hague in 2009, she spent three years in Sarajevo, where she worked as a researcher and analyst at the Special Department for War Crimes at the Office of the Prosecutor. She is a frequent contributor in public debates and has been interviewed for the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, de Volkskrant, the BBC, etc. Her first book Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence comes out in September 2022 in the Contemporary Security Studies at Routledge. Iva is also one of three editors of the new CEU Press series “Perpetrators of Organized Violence: Eastern, Central and South-Eastern Europe”.
Jasna Dragović-Soso is Professor of International Politics and History at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also Visiting Professor at LSEE. Professor Dragović-Soso has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on intellectuals and dissent; nationalism, state dissolution and international intervention; and on processes of memory construction and transitional justice in the post-Yugoslav region. She has provided expertise on the post-Yugoslav region to various non-academic stakeholders, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the International Commission on the Balkans.
Ivor Sokolić (@IvorSoko) is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Hertfordshire and a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He contributes to the ERC funded project “Justice Interactions and Peacebuilding: From Static to Dynamic Discourses across National, Ethnic, Gender and Age Groups”, which examines transitional justice processes across the former Yugoslavia. He holds a PhD from the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and an MSc and BSc in European Politics from the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 2019, Ivor published a book based on his research on Croatia, titled International Courts and Mass Atrocity: Narratives of War and Justice in Croatia (Palgrave MacMillan). He has published articles in Cooperation & Conflict, Nations & Nationalism, Nationalities Papers, Südosteuropa and The Croatian Political Science Review.
Denisa Kostovicova is Associate Professor of Global Politics at the European Institute at LSE. She is a scholar of conflict and post-conflict processes, with a particular interest in post-conflict transitional justice and accountability for human rights violations. She is the author of Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space, and of Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk About War Crimes (forthcoming). Her research has informed policy-making in the United Nations, European Union and the United Kingdom.