Description
In July 1995, the Bosnian-Serb army committed a genocide on the Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) community in Srebrenica,partof a wider genocidal campaign targeted at the whole Bosniak population of Bosnia. In Srebrenica, Dutch troops were present as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission. Relatives of the killed have since tried and succeeded in holding the Dutch state and military accountable. Three major civil court cases by Hasan Nuhanović, the family Mustafić, and the Mothers of Srebrenica against the Dutch state have challenged the Dutch official narrative. In the Dialogics of Justice-project we started from these court cases to ask bigger questions about responsibility and (experiences of) repair. How did the court cases contribute to or interfere with the process of reparations for the genocide? How did it confront the Dutch state and society with questions of political responsibility? How does the compensation enforced by the court for individual claimants and sharply delineated groups relate to the experienced collective nature of the harm? In this panel, we also look at the wider legal and societal context by including at the role of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), both internationally and within the Dutch reality and imaginary of responsibility and repair. We will explore how the ICTY building can function as a monument. We also zoom out, taking a transnational perspective, and ask how the ICTY-trials can impact repair in Bosnia.| Period | 16 Apr 2026 |
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| Held at | Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands |