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Guidance Note of the Secretary-General

UN DEFINITION OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE

March 2010

This note provides the guiding principles and framework for United Nations approach to transitional justice processes and mechanisms. It outlines key components of transitional justice, and ways to further strengthen these activities. The note is informed by the Guidance Note of the Secretary - General on United Nations Approach to Rule of Law Assistance. For the United Nations, transitional...
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United Nations

THE RULE OF LAW AND TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN CONFLICT AND POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES

Recent years have seen an increased focus by the United Nations on questions of transitional justice and the rule of law in conflict and post-conflict societies, yielding important lessons for our future activities. Success will depend on a number of critical factors, among them the need to ensure a common basis in international norms and standards and to mobilize the necessary resources for a sustainable...
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Special Report

EU URGED TO BOOST BALKAN RECONCILIATION EFFORTS

Observers say the union must do more to promote lasting peace in region.

Written by Simon Jennings

Though the European Union has played an important role in bringing justice to thousands ofvictims ofthe wars in the former Yugoslavia, observers warn that the bloc is falling short in terms of fostering wider reconciliation and stability in the region. The EU strategy ofconditioning the progress ofex-Yugoslav countries towardsjoining...
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THE HAGUE TRIBUNAL

EX-BOSNIAK POLITICIAN SPEAKS OF 1992 PRIJEDOR TAKEOVER

Prosecution witness recalls attempts to negotiate with Serbs after they seized power.

By Velma Saric - International Justice - ICTY
TRI Issue 670, 19 Nov 2010

An ex-Bosniak politician from Prijedor testified this week about the 1992 takeover of power in the municipality by the Serbian Democratic Party, SDS. Mevludin Sejmenovic, a former chairman of the Bosniak Party of...

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CRISIS MANAGEMENT AND COUNTER - TERRORISM IN THE WESTERN BALKANS

Ljubljana 20-21 April 2007

Bosnian Approach in the Fight Against Terrorism

Edina Becirevic - Faculty of Criminal Justice Science, University of Sarajevo

Bosnia's attitude towards the fight against terrorism cannot be assessed without establishing a link between local and global perspectives first. One could say that this is generally the case with the fight against terrorism; however, in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, this...   MS Word (91kb) >>>

SESELJ CASE

Hague tribunal hears how Croatian in Serb village of Hrtkovci feared becoming a target.

COURT TOLD WITNESS LEFT VILLAGE AFTER SESELJ SPEECH

By Rachel Irwin in The Hague
(TU No. 635, 19-Feb-10)

A witness told judges at The Hague tribunal this week that he decided to leave his village after allegedly being named in a speech by Serbian nationalist politician Vojislav Seselj. The anonymous witness said that he had not himself attended the speech, given on May 6, 1992 in the Serbian village of Hrtkovci...

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MILOSEVIC CASE

CONFERENCE "LEGACY OF THE
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC TRIAL"

Belgrade, March 31, 2007

The Helsinki Committee focused the first...

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SREBRENICA

REMEMBERING THE 1995 SREBRENICA GENOCIDE

Senadin Lavic

At the Bosniak Institute in Sarajevo on July 8, 2010, BZK "Preporod" ("Renaissance") organized a lecture on remembering the Srebrenica genocide 1995-2010. The speakers that evening were the president of BZK "Preporod" Senadin Lavic and professors Edina Becirevic, Cazim Sadikovic, Šacir Filandra, Asim Mujkic and Dino Abazovic. Fifteen years have passed since July 1995 in Srebrenica. Many...

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GENOCIDE

THE DARK CONTINENT

Hitler's European Holocaust Helpers

By SPIEGEL Staff
20 May 2009

The Germans are responsible for the industrial-scale mass murder of 6 million Jews. But the collusion of other European countries in the Holocaust has received surprisingly little attention until recently. The trial of John Demjanjuk is set to throw a spotlight on Hitler's foreign helpers. He's been here before, in this country of perpetrators. He saw this country...

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