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Dealing with the Past and Transitional Justice

Zupan, Natascha 2006: Facing the Past and Transitional Justice in Countries of Former Yugoslavia. Berghof Conflict Research. http://www.berghof-conflictresearch.org/documents/publications/dayton_zupan_rec.pdf

Humanitarian Law Center 2007: Transitional justice in post-Yugoslav countries: report for 2007 (www.hlc-rdc.org).

Humanitarian Law Center 2009: Forum for Transitional Justice (http://www.hlc-rdc.org/uploads/editor/Forum3%20pdf-ff-ispravljeno%207_10_2009_(1).pdf).

International Center for Transitional Justice 2009: Property Rights in Kosovo: A Haunting Legacy of a Society in Transition (http://www.ictj.org/static/Europe/Property_Rts_Kosovo_0309.pdf).

KIPRED 2009: Transitional Justice in Kosovo (Discussion paper) (http://www.kipred.net/site/documents/ToJ_eng.pdf).

Rother, Tanja 2007: Remembering the Past to Live the Future : Approaches and challenges for the Civil Peace Service in Kosovo. Study for forumZFD (http://dwp-kosovo.info/images/uploads/Rother_2007_dwp_desk_study_forumZFD.pdf).

Fact Finding

Subotic, Jelena 2010: The RECOM Initiative. The Promise and Peril of Regional Truth Seeking in the Balkans. Puls Demokratije

CORECOM 2008: Civil Society Consultation on truth-seeking and truth-telling mechanisms about war crimes and other serious human rights violations committed in the former Yugoslavia http://www.korekom.org

CORECOM 2008: Initiative for Establishing a Regional Commission for Fact-finding About War Crimes [RECOM] RECOM

HLC 2008: Trials for ethnically motivated crimes and war crimes in Kosovo : report for 2008 (http://www.hlc-rdc.org/uploads/editor/Report_trials%20for%20war%20crimes_ex%20YU_eng.pdf).

HLC: Kosovo memory book (Forthcoming) (http://www.hlc-rdc.org).

HRW 2001: Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo (http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2001/10/26/under-orders-war-crimes-kosovo)

HRW 2000: Kosovo: Rape as a Weapon of "Ethnic Cleansing" (http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2000/03/01/kosovo-rape-weapon-ethnic-cleansing)

OSCE 1999: Human Rights in Kosovo: As Seen, As Told. Volume I, October 1998 - June 1999 (http://www.osce.org/item/17755.html?ch=506)

OSCE 1999: Human Rights in Kosovo: As Seen, As Told. Volume II, 14 June - 31 October 1999 (http://www.osce.org/item/17756.html?ch=507)


Further readings:

International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ): Documenting Truth (http://www.ictj.org/static/Publications/ICTJ_DAG_DocumentingTruth_pa2009.pdf)

Storytelling

Balkan Sunflowers/CSD: Kosovar Roma Oral Histories (http://www.balkanproject.org/roma/index.shtml).

Berghof Center: Dealing with the Past in Israel-Palestine and in the Western Balkans. Story-telling in Conflict: Developing Practice and Research (http://www.berghof-center.org/uploads/download/wp5e_workshop_report_bar_on.pdf).

Gratë në të Zeza 2008: Ana femërore e luftës (http://www.zeneucrnom.org/pdf/femerore_e_luftes.pdf).

OGI/CBM/INTEGRA 2009: I want to be heard (http://www.ngo-integra.org/events/428/).

OMPF 2006: Hear what we are saying: the families speak (http://www.unmikonline.org/justice/documents/compressed.pdf).

OMPF/CCTD 2006: Voices: an interactive theatre initiative addressing the issue of the missing in Kosovo (http://www.unmikonline.org/justice/documents/OMPF_CCTD_Theatre_Book.pdf).

Qendra Multimedia 2009: History of the 1960s and 1970s (http://www.kosovarhistory.com).

Missing Persons

Amnesty International 2009: Burying the past: 10 years of impunity for enforced disappearances and abductions in Kosovo (http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/EUR70/007/2009/en/ccf25c64-d299-46ee-83d4-a8835f8bf970/eur700072009eng.pdf).

Haliti, Flaka 2009: Our Death / Other’s Dinner. In: Anne von Oswald, Andrea Schmelz, Tanja Lenuweit (Ed.): Erinnerungen in Kultur und Kunst : Reflexionen über Krieg, Flucht und Vertreibung in Europa. Transcript, Bielefeld, 123-124.

Harakal, Kathryn: Haunted by Images. Photography as Witness and Evidence: Kosovo’s Missing Persons. (http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Roundtables/Memory_Politics/Workshop_1/Harakal_Essay.pdf).

OMPF 2006: Hear what we are saying: the families speak (http://www.unmikonline.org/justice/documents/compressed.pdf).

OMPF/CCTD 2006: Voices: an interactive theatre initiative addressing the issue of the missing in Kosovo (http://www.unmikonline.org/justice/documents/OMPF_CCTD_Theatre_Book.pdf).

Memory Work

DiLellio, Anna/Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie 2006: The Legendary Commander: The Construction of an Albanian Master-Narrative in Post-War Kosovo. Nations & Nationalism, 12 (3), 2006, 513-529.

DiLellio, Anna/Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie 2006: Sacred Journey to a Nation: The Construction of a Shrine in Postwar Kosovo. Journeys. The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, Volume 7, Number 1, Summer 2006, 27-49(23).

Herrschaft, Felicia 2009: Articulations of Remembrance in Art and Culture in Kosovo. In: Anne von Oswald, Andrea Schmelz, Tanja Lenuweit (Ed.): Erinnerungen in Kultur und Kunst : Reflexionen über Krieg, Flucht und Vertreibung in Europa. Transcript, Bielefeld, 123-124.

International Organziation for Migration 2001: Archives of Memory : Supporting Traumatized Communities through Narration and Remembrance. Psychosocial Notebook Vol. 2, October 2001 (http://dwp-kosovo.info/images/uploads/Archives_of_Memory.pdf).

Luci, Nita/Krasniqi, Vjollca 2006: Politics of remembrance and belonging: Life histories of Albanian women in Kosova. Center for Research and Gender Policy, Pristina.

Ströhle, Isabel 2006: Pristina's "Martyrs’ Cemetry" - conflicting commemorations. Südosteuropa 54, pp. 404-426.


Further readings:

ICTJ: Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action (http://www.ictj.org/images/content/9/8/981.pdf).

Public Debates/Media/Attitudes

forumZFD 2011: Considering the Future. Perspectives on Dealing with the Past in Kosovo.

INTEGRA 2008: Truth telling project: “Attitudes towards inter-ethnic relations and truth telling in Kosovo”. (Including roundtable “truth telling in Kosovo; which way now?” recommendations and lessons learned (http://www.ngo-integra.org).

UNDP 2007: Public perceptions on transitional justice: report on transitional justice opinion polling survey conducted in April-May 2007 in Kosovo (http://www.kosovo.undp.org/repository/docs/transitional_justice_eng.pdf).

Trauma Work

KRCT 2006: Long-term Sequels of War, Social Functioning and Mental Health in Kosovo (http://www.krct.org).

Lopes Cardozo, Barbara et al. 2000: Mental health, social functioning, and attitudes of Kosovar Albanians following the war in Kosovo. JAMA. 2000;284(5):569-577 (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/reprint/284/5/569).

Links to Further Sources

There are many websites related to dwp. These are but a few:

Memory and Justice. A public space to debate and discuss how to memorialize past human rights abuse so that it will never again occur. Founded by ICTJ. http://memoryandjustice.org/
Learning from History. A platform for historical and civic education which focuses on twentieth-century history. Information in German and English:. http://learning-from-history.de/
Memory at work. Electronic platform dedicated to Lebanon's war-loaded memory (currently under construction): http://www.memoryatwork.org
International Comittee of Memorial Museums in Remembrance of the Victims of Public Crimes. Responsible memory of history and cultural cooperation through education: http://www.ic-memo.org

Dealing with the Past and Reconciliation. KOFF Center for Peacebuilding, Swiss Peace. Information on dealing with the past in English, French and German: http://www.swisspeace.ch/typo3/en/peacebuilding-activities/koff/index.html
Working Group on Development and Peace. Information on transitional justice in English and German: http://www.frient.de/en/topics/justice.asp
The Transitional Justice Data Base Project, University of Wisconsin. Data base on transitional justice, including a vast bibliography: http://sites.google.com/site/transitionaljusticedatabase/

Newsletter on Transitional Justice by the ICTJ: http://www.ictj.org/en/news/newsletters/2010/

International Journal of Transitional Justice: http://ijtj.oxfordjournals.org
The Oral History Review: http://ohr.oxfordjournals.org/current.dtl

Email List TJnetwork - Network of Transitional Justice Researchers; http://listserv.aaas.org/mailman/listinfo/tjnetwork

The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Worldwide network of “Sites of Conscience” – historic sites specifically dedicated to remembering past struggles for justice and addressing their contemporary legacies: http://www.sitesofconscience.org/en/

Dealing with the Past in the Western Balkans

Initiatives for Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia
ed. by Martina Fischer and Ljubinka Petrović-Ziemer
Berghof Report No. 18, Berlin 2013, 222

The publication presents results of a project funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF). The study investigates initiatives for reconciliation and “dealing with the past” which were undertaken by international organisations, legal institutions and local civil society actors in response to the wars of the 1990s. The coherence of objectives and strategies and their implications for peacebuilding, forms of cooperation and learning experiences, and the political resonance of the various approaches were a particular focus of interest. In all, 150 interviews were conducted in 28 municipalities. The study was carried out with input from civil society organisations and academic experts in the region. Srđan Dvornik (Zagreb), Katarina Milićević (Belgrade), and Ismet Sejfija (Sarajevo) co-authored the study.

Horror Always Has the Same Face

War-torn societies face a crucial question and challenge: How to find words, gestures, sites, and forms of commemoration that explain the past in an appropriate manner and give guidance for building a shared future without repeating the pain? Peace practitioners and scholars are convinced that there is a need to face the legacies of the violent past to pave the way for peaceful co-existence, trust- and relationship building. At the same time, public presentation of history is often a source of conflict. Different interests and perspectives are involved and need to be addressed. To discuss these questions, the Centre for Nonviolent Action (CNA, Belgrade/Sarajevo) conducted a study tour to Berlin (Germany) with war veterans from the region of former Yugoslavia from October 15th-21st, 2012.

AI. Balkans: Thousands still missing two decades after conflicts

"If I could know where my son Albion is, and if I could bury him and put a flower on his grave and I would be in a better place"
Nesrete Kumnova, from Kosovo whose son’s body is believed to be among those transported to Serbia, and reburied there, during the 1999 conflict.

(photo: © ARMEND NIMANI/AFP/Getty Images)