Kosovo and Transitional Justice
This book analyses efforts to achieve justice in Kosovo for victims of crimes committed during the conflict in the 1990s, relating this to broader debates on transitional justice.
The war in Kosovo has come under the jurisdiction of a number of mechanisms which fit within the broader framework of transitional justice. These include international tribunals (the ICTY), international organisations with judicial mandates within Kosovo (UNMIK and EULEX), ad-hoc hybrid tribunals (the Kosovo Specialist Chambers), and truth-seeking mechanisms (RECOM and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission). Collectively, these developments make Kosovo a profoundly important case study on the contemporary efficacy of transitional justice. This volume analyses the nature and impact of the various mechanisms employed to date in Kosovo to determine their effects within the country, and their broader international significance. Various critical issues are examined through an exploration of the institutional mechanisms employed in each case, their coherence with existing theories on best practice principles, and the broader implications of their efficacy in Kosovo.
This book will be of much interest to students of transitional justice, statebuilding, Balkan politics, and International Relations in general.
Dr Aidan Hehir is a reader in International Relations at the University of Westminster, UK.
Furtuna Sheremeti is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Criminology in KU Leuven, Belgium.
Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding
The series publishes monographs and edited collections analysing a wide range of policy interventions associated with statebuilding. It asks broader questions about the dynamics, purposes, and goals of this interventionist framework and assesses the impact of externally-guided policy-making.
Series Editors: Aidan Hehir, University of Westminster, UK, Pol Bargues, CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs), Spain, and Vjosa Musliu, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
Peace Figuration after International Intervention
Intentions, events and consequences of liberal peacebuilding
Gzim Visoka
Statebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa
The Aftermath of Regime Change
Irene Constantini
Deferring Peace in International Statebuilding
Difference, Critique and Resilience
Pol Barugus-Pedreny
International Peacebuilding and Local Involvement
A Liberal Renaissance?
Dahlia Simangan
Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices
Performing Europe in the Western Balkans
Vjosa Musliu
Kosovo and Transitional Justice
The Pursuit of Justice after Large-Scale Conflict
Edited by Aidan Hehir and Furtuna Sheremeti
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Intervention-and-Statebuilding/book-series/RSIS
Kosovo and Transitional Justice
The Pursuit of Justice after Large-Scale Conflict
Edited by
Aidan Hehir and Furtuna Sheremeti
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Names: Hehir, Aidan, 1977- editor, author. | Sheremeti, Furtuna, editor author.
Title: Kosovo and transitional justice : the pursuit of justice after large scale conflict / edited by Aidan Hehir, Furtuna Sheremeti.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
| Series: Routledge studies in intervention and statebuilding | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021002571 (print) | LCCN 2021002572 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367529017 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003079781 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Transitional justiceKosovo (Republic) | War damage compensationLaw and legislationKosovo (Republic) | Reparation (Criminal justice)Kosovo (Republic) | War victimsLegal status, laws, etcKosovo (Republic) | Kosovo War, 1998-1999.
Classification: LCC KKH9989 .K67 2021 (print) | LCC KKH9989 (ebook) | DDC 341.6/8094971dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021002571
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021002572
ISBN: 978-0-367-52901-7 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-52904-8 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-07978-1 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003079781
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Aidan would like to dedicate this book to Sarah, Esm, Elsie and Iris
Furtuna would like to dedicate this book to her late father Muharrem
Contents
Editors
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: power and the pursuit of justice in Kosovo
Aidan Hehir
Kosovo on trial at the ICTY: narratives of war, history, justice and injustice
Nevenka Tromp
Frustrated justice: revisiting ICTYs involvement in adjudicating crimes committed during the Kosovo war
Mathias Holvoet
The effectiveness of UNMIK and EULEX in the pursuit of criminal justice in Kosovo
Amer Alija
Reparations after large-scale conflicts: can Kosovo learn from international courts and practises?
Furtuna Sheremeti
Authors of their own transitional justice: survivors of wartime sexual violence
Anna Di Lellio
Sexual violence as a tool of war in Kosovo: where do we stand over 20 years later?
Jeta Krasniqi
The re-appearing of the feminine: Kosovos theatres of war memories after Yugoslavia
Anna Di Lellio And Arzana Kraja
A critical analysis of the evolution of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutors Office and the rationale for their existence
Dean Pineles
The strategy behind the Serbian governments support for the Kosovo Specialist Chambers
Sonja Biserko
The strategic logic of ethnic cleansing in post-intervention Kosovo and its implications for the Kosovo Specialist Chambers
Aidan Hehir
Conclusion: addressing the lack of justice in Kosovo
