BELGRADE, September 16th, 2011- Among the topics of the Conference on Domestic War Crimes Trials were regional cooperation and challenges imposed by the closing down of ICTY, and a special part of the conference was dedicated to witnesses associates and their protection, since there have been serious omissions in this segment of war crimes trials.
LONDON, 15th September 2011, the British Academy – States have a clear but largely unmet responsibility for full and transparent reporting of those killed in armed violence around the world. This is the central message of a new initiative, the Charter for the Recognition of Every Casualty of Armed Violence, launched Thursday, 15 September, at the British Academy and already endorsed by 37 humanitarian and human rights organisations from around the world.
Belgrade, September 14, 2011 – Nataša Kandić, Director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) stated today that there is still no official action of the authorities in charge following the criminal complaint filed by the HLC against commanders and members of the Tenth Sabotage Detachment of the Army of Republika Srpska (the Detachment) for the crime of genocide they committed in Srebrenica in spite of all available evidence.
BELGRADE, 09/08/2011 – Today, September 8, 2011, on the premises of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), the first volume of the Kosovo Memory Book: 1998 was promoted. The book deals with human losses in Kosovo in 1998. The follwoing speakers took part in the promotion: Mr. Nils Ragnar Kamsvag, Norwegian Ambassador; Natasa Kandic, Director of HLC; Bekim Blakaj, Director of HLC-Kosovo, Olgica Bozanic from the Associations of Families of Victims and Missing Persons; Slobodan Kostic, journalist; and Vladimir Arsenijevic, writer. The presentation was attended by family members of victims and missing persons, NGO representatives, representatives of the diplomatic corps in Serbia, as well as judges and prosecutors. None of the politicians or senior government officials attended the event.
Humanitarian Law Center and Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo organized promotion of Kosovo Memory Book, 1998 that is composed by 2.046 narratives of killed, fallen and missing persons during the war in Kosovo in 1998. According to Natasa Kandic from humanitarian Law Center this book is very important because it describes the context of how thousands of people were killed in Kosovo. “For the first time in the history of Balkans we have a book that tells stories of victims and will serve for the future generations to refer to this book while they speak about that what happened in the past” and added that “this book does not intend to equalize victims but to show the societies in Serbia and Kosovo what happened during this period”. Bekim Blakaj from Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo spoke about the engagement of tens of person in collecting data and that more than 8.400 interviews are done with victim’s family members.
On September 5 and 6, 2011, “Amica” from Tuzla, BiH, and the Alexander Langer Foundation from Bolcan, within the program called “Adopt Srebrenica – International Cooperation for Memory – Fifth International Week of Dialogues and Meetings”, organized a meeting of a group of students from Italy and Bosnia and Herzegovina with HLC employees. On this occasion, Aleksandar Obradović made a presentation of the activities of the Coalition for RECOM from the beginning to the current public advocating stage and Jelena Plamenanc shared information about the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
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The Forum for Transitional Justice is a Magazine dealing with the challenges, problems and aspects relevant to transitional justice in the post-conflict societies of the Western Balkans. We will be publishing pieces on national war crimes trials and trials before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, as well as articles on truth-seeking and truth-telling mechanisms and initiatives, reparations and institutional reforms in the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, but also on the experiences of other societies in overcoming the burden of past crimes.
We will stimulate a debate about the challenges and problems concerning transitional justice, including historical memory, denial of crimes, accountability and reconciliation. The Magazine will publish theoretical pieces and overviews of the literature referring to these issues. The articles will be published in Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), but the articles written by authors from the region will also be published in English. In addition to the authored texts, which would be specially written to be published in this Magazine, we will also publish translations of relevant articles from other languages into BCS languages.
The aim of the Humanitarian Law Center is to further stimulate the already triggered regional debate on various aspects of transitional justice with the publication of this Magazine, and to open new questions relevant to the creation of the culture of responsibility, the formation of historical memory and respect for victims.
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Forum for Transitional Justice #1 (April 2007)
The first issue of the Forum for Transitional Justice gives an answer to the question as to what transitional justice is; it presents the mechanisms it uses and the challenges occurring in their application.
Forum for Transitional Justice #2 (March 2009)
The second issue of the Forum for Transitional Justice is devoted to the issue of reparations for victims of war crimes and other serious violations of human rights committed in the armed conflicts on the territory of the former SFRY in the 1990s.
Forum for Transitional Justice #3 (September 2009)
The third issue of the Forum for Transitional Justice deals with the question of the relation between the European Union and transitional justice – from retributive to restorative justice in the Western Balkans.
Forum for Transitional Justice #4 (January 2013)
The fourth issue of the Forum for Transitional Justice deals with reconciliation in the Western Balkans.
Forum for Transitional Justice #5 (December 2015)
The fifth issue of the Forum for Transitional Justice deals with the question of the role of education in the processes of dealing with the past and reconciliation, with a particular stress on the contents of history textbooks in post-conflict societies and democratisation processes.
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