Exchange between accused, Slobodan Praljak, and witness, Professor Farhudin Rizvanbegović, who had been detained at Dretelj camp and Ljubuški prison in 1993.

Accused: Professor, just give me a yes or no. Did you hear of him?
Witness: Please don't act that way.
Acc: You are taking away from my time. Did you hear of him?
Wit: You took away half of my life, man.

Prlić et al, at ICTY, 23 May 2006, testimony, p. 2319.

#Law #ICTY #Testimony #ExYu #Trial #BiH

Nieuw op @donaustroom: Het vonnis van Simatović en Stanišić toont aan dat de oorlog in #Bosnië en Herzegovina geen burgeroorlog was, maar een internationaal conflict waarin de politieke leiding van buurlanden een belangrijke rol speelde. #JoegoslaviëTribunaal. #ICTY #Servië https://www.donaustroom.eu/het-laatste-vonnis-van-het-joegoslavie-tribunaal-biedt-lessen-voor-de-toekomst/

New #Criminology paper:

Teaching Atrocity Criminology with ICTY Archives: Disciplinarity, Research, Ethics

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511253.2023.2205472

Covers interdisciplinarity, the research/teaching nexus and ethics in teaching criminology and atrocity using public court archives

#SOTL #Pedagogy #ICTY #Archive #ExYu #Law #Sociology #History #PolSci

@KasparRosagerLudvigsen

Again - thank you.

The review is of Iva Vukušić's "Serbian Paramilitaries and the Break up of Yugoslavia" is now up and freely available on SSRN:

http://ssrn.com/abstract=4371846

#Atrocity #Paramilitary #Yugoslavia #Serbia #Croatia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #BiH #Kosovo #ICTY #Histodon #Criminology #Research #Archives

I wrote a review of Iva Vukušić's "Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence" here.

https://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azad008/7058712?searchresult=1

Not open access, but some key points:
*It's excellent - buy it!
*It's very relevant to criminology
*Valuable analysis of differences between paramilitary units (professional/non-professional)
*We can do more with ICTY sources

#Criminology #ICTY #Yugosphere #history #histodon #Serbia #Yugoslavia

Super interesting #OpenAccess article by Iva Vukusic (Utrecht University) on “Archives of Mass Violence: Understanding and Using #ICTY Trial Records” https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/soeu-2021-0050/html #history #InternationalTribunals #InternationalCriminalLaw #InternationalLaw #ICL #Memory #MassAtrocities #Academia

A harrowing account of the missed prosecution of crimes committed by Arkan’s Tigers in Bosnia: “The DJ and the war crimes” (by Sophia Jones, Nidžara Ahmetašević, Milivoje Pantović) https://investigation.rollingstone.com/dj-photo-war-crimes-bosnia/ via Rolling Stone Magazine #Yugoslavia #WarCrimes #ICTY #InternationalLaw #InternationalJustice #InternationalCrimes

More good news - Criminologies of Atrocity has also been nominated as an Outstanding Course, with special mention for the passion shown by the teaching team, including Annalisa Battista and @mjgn92

The course introduces students to criminological and other disciplinary perspectives on perpetrators and victims of atrocity before they use the archives of the ICTY in a small research project.

#Criminology #ICTY #Yugoslavia #Atrocity #ResearchTeachingNexus #Pedagogy

So, I gave it just 1 element:

Analyse the following statement of guilt from Biljana Plavsic in terms of gender [full statement given]

Even with the full text and a direct prompt, it still falls well short.

So - complex assessment briefs with multiple elements requiring original thinking and the shift from knowledge to application seem safe... for now.

#ChatGPT #Criminology #AI #ICTY #LAWS10218 #Gender #BiH #AcademicMisconduct

151 diplomatic cables on Ratko #Mladic, former Serbian general, convicted today of genocide against Bosnian Muslims by the #ICTY https://t.co/eckjdpzGLh https://t.co/uSXSolHDud