Srebrenica Genocide: Politics, Law and Memory

Sevba Abdula; Agon Krasniqi; Sümeyye Koman; Muhammet Celal Kul; Muamer  Dzananović; Satvinder S. Juss; Jasmin Medić; Meldin Kesetović; Mehmet Hacisaloğlu; Enes  Turbic; Mustafa  Işık

doi:10.51331/EB13

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Srebrenica Genocide: Politics, Law and Memory

Sevba Abdula (ed)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2890-5832
Author Biography

He was born in 1984 in North Macedonia. In 2008, he completed his
undergraduate studies in the Department of Economics at Ankara University. He
obtained his master’s degree from Istanbul University in Political Science and
International Relations with a thesis titled “Religion and Nationalism: The Case
of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Serbian Nationalism.” In 2022, he earned
his PhD from Marmara University’s Institute of Social Sciences by defending his
dissertation titled “Power, History, and Identity: The Narration of the Ottoman
and Habsburg Empires in Serbian Historiography and History Textbooks.” He
has served as the founding president of the Fettah Efendi Association and the
Balkan Studies Foundation. His research focuses on modernization in the Balkans,
church-state relations, political history, ideologies, and the thought of Abdülfettah
Rauf. He is married and the father of Elif Hanne and Ahmed Arif.
Enes Turbic (ed)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2871-9044
Author Biography

He was born in 1992 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. After completing his secondary education at Gymnasium Rizah Odžečkić in 2011, he studied Turkish language at Gazi University (TÖMER) in Ankara during the 2011–2012 academic year. In 2016, he graduated from the Department of History at the Faculty of Philosophy, Trakya University, with a thesis titled The Independence of Bosnia and
the Bosnian War (1992–1995). In 2018, he earned his master’s degree from the Department of History at the Institute of Social Sciences, Trakya University, with a thesis entitled The Bosniak Resistance to the Austro-Hungarian Occupation (1878). In 2023, he completed his PhD at the same institute with a dissertation titled The Political Life of Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina under Austro-Hungarian
Rule (1878–1914), under the joint supervision of Prof. Dr. Jahić from the University of Tuzla (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sannav from Trakya University (Türkiye). His research focuses on the political life of BiH and the Bosniaks during the Austro-Hungarian period, as well as on the analysis of
contemporary political developments in BiH.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51331/EB13

Synopsis

Nearly 9,000 Bosnian Muslims were massacred and found in mass graves in Srebrenica in 1995. This genocide represents the greatest blow and a dark stain inflicted upon the common history and culture of the Balkans in the last century. The victimization of these people by burdening them with all the ‘crimes’ of history has simultaneously turned into a major element of shame for Serbian history. Looking back at 1995 after thirty years, the genocide has become entrenched in collective memory, and Serbia has been condemned by international courts. However, numerous processes— such as the politicization of the issue, its background, legal debates, the reconstruction of memory, and genocide denial continue to persist. This work is the output of re-evaluating Srebrenica within an international framework thirty years later. Law, memory, media, and history constitute the primary themes of this volume.

Keywords

Srebrenica, genocide, memory, law

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