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In this talk, Dr Veličković will offer an ideology critique of the International Criminal Tribunal’s (ICTY) account of the disintegration of Yugoslavia, with a particular focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina. Drawing on qualitative analysis of trial transcripts and associated trial materials in five of the ICTY seminal cases, she considers how the Tribunal constructs narratives about Bosnian history, culture and society; the conflict and the crimes committed; and the role of international community in responding to these atrocities. She argues that the narratives the Trial Chambers construct are ideological in that they conceptualise violence and peace in ways that obscure relations of power and domination, and furthermore, that this discursive framing is necessary for the Tribunal’s juridical work to emerge as a form of justice.
Dr Marina Veličković is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. Her project 'Law as Violence: Transitions Towards Inequality' explores the role of international organisations and financial institutions in the process of post-socialist transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is particularly interested in the role of discourse in legitimating and (re)producing structures of violence and disenfranchisement. She earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2021, where she was a recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Her thesis explored how the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia constructed historical narratives about the causes and contours of the conflict in Bosnia. Before embarking on her PhD Marina worked as a researcher and consultant for a number of human rights NGOs both in Bosnia and in the UK. She holds an LLM in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an LLB from the University of Bristol.
- Speaker
- Dr Marina Veličković
- Hosted by
- School of Law
- Venue
- Hybrid Event (On-Campus Venue Taylor Building C11)
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Event is free and open to all. For online access to the event please contact law-research@abdn.ac.uk
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