Bones and Recognition
Compensating families of Missing Persons in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13047397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessie Barton Hronešová (0000-0001-6727-4207, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 47-60 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2165-7440 • E-ISSN: 1542-3166 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15423166.2018.1467784 |
| OpenAlex | W2809689204 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
A growing trend in post-war transitional justice posits that structural conditions explain why only some post-war countries award material assistance to survivors of war atrocities. While these explanations provide critical insights into the processes behind compensation adoption across post-war states, they do not explain the great variance in which victims obtain compensation within post-war countries. Using the case of missing persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a victim category that secured compensation in 2004, I present a new model to explain compensation using a rationalist approach. The paper shows that compensation adoption is primarily driven by an opportune combination of three factors: international salience (defined as the international attention given to the victim category and/or prioritisation of its demands), moral authority (defined as the level of perceived domestic deservingness for compensation) and mobilisation resources (defined as the victim category's capacities to mobilise and the quality of its networks). Drawing on fieldwork, this article shows that the prominence of the Srebrenica genocide propelled the issue of missing persons on to domestic and external agendas, affording the surviving families an opportunity to demand special compensation
Cognitive psychology · Compensation (psychology · Criminology · Economic Justice · Genocide · Political science · Post war · Salience (neuroscience · Transitional justice · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · History · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Social Psychology · Turkey's Politics and Society
The Persistent Power of Human Rights
Dynamics of Contention
Courting democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Innocence and Victimhood
Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide
To Know Where He Lies
Prayer as a History
Mapping the Nexus of Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding
Might Makes Right
The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding Ten Years on
The missing in the aftermath of war
Understanding the Domestic Impact of International Norms
Peacebuilding
The new social movements
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |