Research Catalog

Title

The witness experience : testimony at the ICTY and its impact / Kimi Lynn King, University of North Texas, James David Meernik, University of North Texas.

Author

King, Kimi Lynn

Publication

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

Meernik, James David

Description

xii, 220 pages : illusrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This book provides the most comprehensive and scientific assessment to date of what it means to appear before war crimes tribunals. This ground-breaking analysis, conducted with the cooperation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Victims and Witnesses Section, examines the positive and negative impact that testifying has on those who bear witness to the horrors of war by shedding new light on the process. While most witnesses have positive feelings and believe they contributed to international justice, there is a small but critical segment of witnesses whose security, health, and well-being are adversely affected after testifying. The witness experience is examined holistically, including witness' perceptions of their physical and psychological well-being. Because identity (gender and ethnicity) and war trauma were central to the ICTY's mandate and the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, the research explores in-depth how they have impacted the most critical stakeholders of any transitional justice mechanism: the witnesses"--

Subject

• International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991
• War crime trials > Social aspects > Netherlands > Hague
• Witnesses > Former Yugoslav republics > Attitudes
• War victims > Former Yugoslav republics > Attitudes
• Victims of crimes (International law) > Attitudes
• War crime trials > Social aspects
• International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
• Testimony
• War victims
• Genocide
• International criminal justice
• Netherlands > Hague
• Yugoslavia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.

Contents

Introduction to the survey and survey methodology -- Exploring the gender, ethnicity and trauma characteristics of the witness sample -- The witnesses and their encounter with international justice -- The witnesses and human security: the social, economic and security consequences of testimony -- The impact of testifying -- Perceptions of justice -- Conclusions.

ISBN

• 9781108416214
• 1108416217
• 9781108402729
• 1108402720
• 9781108246064 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017036745

OCLC

• ocn989707156
• 989707156
• SCSB-8911905

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library