Crimes Against Humans and Crimes Against Humanity [Elektronisk resurs] Analysis of Documents Produced During Trials at Tribunals After the War in North-West Bosnia and Herzegovina

• The aim of the study is to analyse documents produced during trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Section for War Crimes of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina concerning the 1992 war in north-west Bosnia and Herzegovina. The documents construct and reconstruct the categories of victim and perpetrator at a symbolic level. Punishing the offenders for war crimes is a means by which local and international courts attempt to eliminate the ideology on which the atrocities were based. The study interprets the documents as rhetorical warnings to future belligerents. Warfare that targets civilians and lack of respect for human rights are construed as unacceptable. In revealing the scope of war crimes committed during the period, the documents represent an attempt to influence the local and international community. They implicitly define the categories of victim and perpetrator, highlighting the individual and visible punishment to which the latter are subject while implying that their ideology has thereby been eliminated. The documents emphasize the role of individual responsibility in future wars. The presumption is that peer pressure is no excuse for war crimes and that civilians are never to be targeted. 

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Criminology  (lnu)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

war crime

victim

perpetrator

ideology

rhetoric

warfare

social construction

punishment

individual responsibility

war

pedagogy

education

denial of genocide

social pedagogy

peace potential

cosmopolitan education

special pedagogy