The Role of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in Understanding the War and Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Friday, October 4, 2019
9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Washington University School of Law
Anheuser Busch Hall, Room 310
8.1 MO CLE Credit Available
Free and Open to the Public
The Harris Institute at Washington University School of Law and the Bosnia Memory Project at Fontbonne University will host a one-day symposium to reflect on the Role of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in Understanding the War and Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The all-day symposium will explore key questions that remain after the 1992-1995 war and genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Despite the staggering level of systematic violence, which left 100,000 Bosnians dead and resulted in 2 million refugees, it proved difficult to legally establish the crime of genocide at the ICTY. Accountability for atrocity crimes in Bosnia-Herzegovina – including the crimes against humanity and war crimes of extermination, persecution, sexual violence, unlawful imprisonment, torture, deportation, and wanton destruction – are critical to a proper understanding of the past and are necessary for reconstituting civil society in the former Yugoslavia. Legal experts, including the ICTY prosecutor in the genocide trial of Ratko Mladic, as well as scholars and survivors will explore the legal, historical, and political issues that have shaped an understanding of wartime events in the former Yugoslavia.
The symposium features three panels, a keynote address and book signing, and concludes with a film screening of the Trial of Ratko Mladic.
For more information and to register, visit: https://law.wustl.edu/event/the-role-of-the-icty-in-understanding-the-war-and-genocide-in-bosnia-herzegovina-10-04-2019/.
We look forward to seeing you in October.