Investigating Srebrenica - Institutions, Facts, Responsibilities

In July 1995, the Bosnian Serb Army commanded by General Ratko Mladic attacked the enclave of Srebrenica, a UN "safe area" since 1993, and massacred about 8,000 Bosniac men. While the responsibility for the massacre itself lays clearly with the Serb political and military leadership...

About the author

Isabelle Delpla is Professor of Philosophy at University Jean Moulin-Lyon III. Her research focuses on international ethics and justice and the relationships between philosophy and anthropology. She has conducted fieldwork in Bosnia with victim associations, Hague witnesses, and convicted war criminals.

Xavier Bougarel is Researcher at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. He is currently researching the wars of the 1990s and their aftermath in the former Yugoslavia and the transformations of Islam in the post-Communist Balkans.

Jean-Louis Fournel is Professor at the University of Paris VIII. His research focuses on the history of warfare, political thought, and the rhetoric of the Italian Renaissance. Between 1997 and 2001, he directed several European cooperation programs with universities in Bosnia- Herzegovina. In 1994, while the city was under siege, he co-organized the initiative for a sister relationship between his university and that of Sarajevo.

Product details

• Authors: Isabelle Bougarel Delpla
• Assisted by: Xavier Bougarel (Editor), Isabelle Delpla (Editor), Jean-Louis Fournel (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2014
• EAN: 9781782386728
• ISBN: 978-1-78238-672-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Contemporary European History; Contemporary European History; Studies in Contemporary European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Genocide History, History: 20th Century to Present