Duration
29 Jun 2015 - 10 Jul 2015
This Master Class topic will deal with the legal, political, historical aspects of the genocide. The course will deal on one hand with more general topic of genocide identifying the politics of genocide and the failure of the International Community to prevent future genocidal crimes or to stop a genocide in progress. More specifically, it will deal with the genocide in BiH in the 1990s. Despite – perhaps because of – its inability to stop the war and the mass atrocities committed against Bosnian Muslim civilians, the UN established the ICTY as the first post-Nuremburg criminal tribunal in 1993. Its foundation did not, and could not, compensate for the failures at the political, diplomatic and military levels to stop the war in BiH or prevent the war in Kosovo in 1999, or to facilitate a smooth normalization of relations in a post-conflict period. The severest crimes in BiH happened two years after the ICTY was created. Foreseen by some for years, it occurred after almost four years of daily presence in the territory of thousands of ‘internationals’, many of whom were able to see what was to come. The Srebrenica narrative is still developing but Victims are losing their voice with the passage of time.
There are 10 scholarships made available by ACCESS EUROPE (University of Amsterdam), a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence under the Erasmus+ programme. These scholarships will be awarded to students from Dutch universities and from universities in South East Europe (Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
Please send your application, consisting of a CV and a short motivation letter, to: geoffreynicefoundation@gmail.com
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