Graves and redress: families of the missing persons and the ‘Srebrenica effect’

Barton-Hronešová, J. (2020). 

This chapter discusses the role of missing persons’ families and the process of their state recognition. It presents a case of ‘Optimal Route’ scenario when victim capital can be described as consisting of high salience, authority and resources. It argues that families of Bosnians who went missing during the war were exposed to high levels of external attention because this group included victims whose suffering came to define Bosnian post-war transitional justice: Srebrenica survivors.

An abstract is available online with restricted access to the full article. In: The Struggle for Redress. Memory Politics and Transitional Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51622-2_5

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