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The massive intentional destruction of cultural heritage during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War targeting a historically diverse identity provoked global condemnation and became a seminal marker in the discourse on cultural heritage. It prompted an urgent reassessment of how cultural property could be protected in times of conflict and led to a more definitive recognition in international humanitarian law that destruction of a people's cultural heritage is an aspect of genocide. Yet surprisingly little has been published on the subject. This wide-ranging book provides the first comprehensive overview and critical analysis of the destruction of Bosnia-Herzegovina's cultural heritage and its far-rea...
Based on the study of the Old Bridge of Mostar, this book concerns the adequacy of the international humanitarian law regime relating to the targeting and destruction of immovable cultural property in armed conflict at both normative and enforcement level.
Presents theories, practices and critiques alongside each other to engage students, scholars and professionals from multiple fields. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
This Companion considers what theoretical and practical possibilities emerge at the crossroads of human rights and literature.
This is the first volume of an authoritative three-volume treatise on international criminal law. The text provides comprehensive treatment of issues relevant to the foundations, general part of international criminal law, and general principles of international criminal justice.
This study shows the impact of the ICTY on Bosnian society and its role in translating international law in domestic contexts.
This volume considers the dynamic relations between the contemporary practices of international criminal tribunals and the ways in which competing histories, politics and discourses are re-imagined and re-constructed in the former Yugoslavia and beyond. There are two innovative aspects of the book - one is the focus on narratives of justice and their production, another is in its comparative perspective. While legal scholars have tended to analyze transitional justice and the international war tribunals in terms of their success or failure in establishing the facts of war crimes, this volume goes beyond mere facts and investigates how the courts create a symbolic space within which competing...
Volume III of the International Criminal Law Practitioner Library provides a critical review of international criminal procedure as practised at the international criminal tribunals. It examines the framework within which substantive international criminal law operates and covers every stage of the proceedings from investigation to trial, appeal, and punishment.
A political economy analysis that explains international criminal law's hegemonic status in the understanding of global justice.