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Hijacked Justice - Dealing with the Past in the Balkans (Paperback)
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What is the appropriate political response to mass atrocity? In
Hijacked Justice, Jelena Subotic traces the design, implementation,
and political outcomes of institutions established to deal with the
legacies of violence in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars. She
finds that international efforts to establish accountability for
war crimes in the former Yugoslavia have been used to pursue very
different local political goals.Responding to international
pressures, Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia have implemented various
mechanisms of "transitional justice"—the systematic addressing of
past crimes after conflicts end. Transitional justice in the three
countries, however, was guided by ulterior political motives: to
get rid of domestic political opponents, to obtain international
financial aid, or to gain admission to the European Union. Subotic
argues that when transitional justice becomes "hijacked" for such
local political strategies, it fosters domestic backlash, deepens
political instability, and even creates alternative, politicized
versions of history. That war crimes trials (such as those in The
Hague) and truth commissions (as in South Africa) are necessary and
desirable has become a staple belief among those concerned with
reconstructing societies after conflict. States are now expected to
deal with their violent legacies in an institutional setting rather
than through blanket amnesty or victor's justice. This new
expectation, however, has produced paradoxical results. In order to
avoid the pitfalls of hijacked justice, Subotic argues, the
international community should focus on broader and deeper social
transformation of postconflict societies, instead on emphasizing
only arrests of war crimes suspects.
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