CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Bratic, Maja |
|---|---|
| Title | Croatia's Road to Reconciliation and the Role of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |
| Summary | The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has been in operation for two decades receiving praise and criticism over its work and it is scheduled to close in 2014. Considering insufficient research regarding the impact of the ICTY in Croatia largely due to a small number of trials conducted and Tribunal's over focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), this paper turns the attention to Croatia in order to determine what impact the ICTY had on the ground and whether and to what extent its role contributed to reconciliation between Serbs and Croats. For the reconciliation process to be feasible, however, favorable conditions must be present and therefore the paper also looks at Croatia's commitment to promote reconciliation. While an intangible term such as reconciliation tends to lose priority in international criminal trials and post-war communities, there needs to exist a broader understanding of what reconciliation entails and what are the available methods that can be applied for the process to begin. Based on inter-ethnic relations, perceptions of the ICTY and the impact of ICTY trials, the author argues that reconciliation has not been widely pursued in Croatia and that the ICTY did more to hamper than aid the reconciliation process. Although criminal trials should not be overly relied upon to de facto bring about reconciliation, there are also many extenuating factors that obstruct the road to reconciliation such as; unresolved history of ethnic violence, competing truths and institutionalized ethnic narratives, among others. |
| Supervisor | Thilo Bodenstein |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/bratic_maja.pdf |
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