Investigating Srebrenica

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.

“This volume is much more than agglomeration of interesting and important case studies… Digesting thousands of pages of different reports and dissecting their content is a timely and insightful venture...It challenges conventional modes of historical, legal and political representation, yet demands to be addressed through responsible research and emphatic debate.”  ·  Southeast European and Black Sea Studies“The newest addition to Berghahn Books' outstanding 'Studies in Contemporary European History' series, [this book] is an impressive compilation of eight major papers that provide an informed and informative analytical description of how an horrific event has been reported by various governments and agencies. Enhanced with six area maps, a lengthy Bibliography, a Name Index, and a Subject Index, [it] is an important and highly recommended addition to academic library reference collections.”  ·  Reviewer's Bookwatch“[This book] provides us with a framework to analyse the hundreds of reports that are being written around the world in an effort to come to terms with past atrocities. Whether readers are interested in international relations, law, human rights, history or sociology, this book will have something to bear in the way in which we all approach the issue of understanding rationales behind knowledge. This work fills a gap in the current literature on the main reports and investigations of Srebrenica, since these had not been, until now, the objects of comparative analysis.”  ·  LSE Blog

• List of mapsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations and acronymsList of the Srebrenica reports and websitesChronology and MapsIntroduction: The Judge, the Historian, and the LegislatorIsabelle Delpla, Xavier Bougarel and Jean-Louis FournelChapter 1. The ICTY InvestigationsJean-René RuezChapter 2. Introduction to the “Report-Form”: Characteristics and Temporalities of a Production of Public TruthJean-Louis FournelChapter 3. Reassessing the French Parliamentary Fact-Finding Mission on SrebrenicaPierre BranaChapter 4. A Tale of Two Commissions: Dutch Parliamentary Inquiries during the Srebrenica-AftermathChrist KlepChapter 5. Reflecting on the Dutch NIOD Report: Academic Logic and the Culture of ConsensusPieter LagrouChapter 6. Reopening the Wounds? The Parliament of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Question of Bosniak ResponsibilitiesXavier BougarelChapter 7. The Long Way to Admission: The Report of the Government of the Republika SrpskaMichèle Picard and Asta ZinboChapter 8. Facts, Responsibility, Intelligibility: Comparing the Investigations and ReportsIsabelle DelplaBibliographyNotes on contributorsIndex