The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was authorized by the UN Security Council on February 22, 1993, to investigate and prosecute criminal violence associated with the ethnic cleansing campaigns on the territory of the former Yugoslavia after 1991. It was the first ad hoc tribunal established by the UN and the first international tribunal since the international military tribunals in Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II. Unlike prior tribunals, which were established at the end of armed conflicts, the ICTY was created in the middle of an ongoing war in Bosnia. The Security Council’s official rationale for this innovation was that international criminal justice could contribute to peace by (a) deterring further attacks on civilians in Bosnia, and (b) encouraging ethnic reconciliation by focusing legal retribution on individual leaders responsible for criminal violence rather than on communities as a whole.
The ICTY has made a number of important...
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Rodman, K.A. (2011). International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In: Chatterjee, D.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Justice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9160-5_620
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