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The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ("the International Tribunal") was established over four years ago in response to the mass killings, widespread and systematic rape and "ethnic cleansing" being practised in the former Yugoslavia on a scale and of a ferocity not seen on the European continent since the end of the Second World War. The United Nations Security Council considered that this situation constituted a threat to international peace and security. It therefore established the International Tribunal as a subsidiary judicial organ, in the belief that this would help halt and redress such violations.

This edited volume provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the contribution of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to law, memory, and justice. It explores some of the accomplishments, challenges and critiques of the ICTY, as well as some of its less visible legacies.

On the 25th of May 1993 the United Nations Security Council decided to establish the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) as a mechanism for the restoration and maintenance of international peace and security. This text provides an examination of the ICTY.

This edited volume provides a multidisciplinary perspective on the contribution of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to law, memory, and justice. It explores some of the accomplishments, challenges and critiques of the ICTY, as well as some of its less visible legacies.

1. Introduction : trials and tribulations at the ICTY / Rachel Kerr -- 2. The strategic purpose of the ICTY and international peace and security / Madoka Futamura and James Gow -- 3. Prosecuting with pictures : two decades of experience and evolution / James Gow and Milena Michalski -- 4. International law and institutional legacy : prosecuting those accused of breaching the legal bounds of war / Catherine Adams -- 5. Historical record and the legacy of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia / Madiha Inara Khan -- 6. Lost in translation? Perceptions of the ICTY in the Former Yugoslavia / Rachel Kerr -- 7. Beyond the Hague : prosecuting war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Olga Martin-Ortega -- 8. History, the ICTY's record and the Bosnian Serb culture of denial / Haris Subasic and Nerzuk Curak -- 9. Judging their hero : perceptions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Croatia / Iva Vukusic -- 10. Revisionism, denial and anti-ICTY discourse in Serbia's public sphere : beyond the 'divided society' debate / Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik -- 11. International justice and Kosovo : critical legitimacy and impact on a quasi-state entity / Ernst Dijxhoorn -- 12. Reflections on the lessons and legacies of the ICTY : rethinking reconciliation in the context of transitional justice / Zoran Pajic.