Law, political economy and war reparation
The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6089806 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alma Begicevic (0000-0003-4942-8190, Sociology Department Loyola University Chicago Chicago Illinois USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 170-196 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-8240 • E-ISSN: 1467-9930 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lapo.12235 |
| OpenAlex | W4391361455 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 50 |
What are the after‐effects of the Bosnia and Herzegovinian (BH) transition from a post‐socialist, post‐genocide, and post‐ethno‐nationalist state into a European liberal democracy? This article makes a case for war reparation and argues that while poverty reduction has not been among the stated aims of transitional justice mechanisms, it is of critical importance to study war victims' deprivation in the context of historical patterns of structural injustice and examine liberal reconstruction policies that failed to provide compensation and legal redress for gross violations of human rights and serious violations of humanitarian law. The article uses the historical sociology approach as a method of analysis to investigate how moving away from a socialist to a capitalist economic model, from war to peace, and from one party political system to liberal democracy has resulted in structural injustice and growing levels of poverty that adversely impact most vulnerable Bosnians. The article presents an argument that the lack of post‐war reparation programs, coupled with an inadequate emphasis on political regime change, poverty reduction programs and social and economic rights such as access to welfare, cash assistance, food, transportation, education, pension, and disability benefits to ensure the quality of living is detrimental to everyday lives of war victims and people who live at the bottom of the society
Context (archaeology · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Genocide · Human rights · Injustice · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Redress · Sociology · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Turkey's Politics and Society
The Common Place of Law
Violence and Social Repair
Character and Social Structure
Socialist Unemployment
Human Rights and DevelopmentTowards Mutual Reinforcement
Yugoslavia and the Nonaligned World
The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post-Dayton Bosnia
My Neighbor, My Enemy
Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy
Feminism, Postcolonial Legal Theory and Transitional Justice
Oligarchy and economic legacy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Transitional Justice, Interdisciplinarity and the State of the 'Field' or 'Non-Field
Dilemmas of Expanding Transitional Justice, or Forging the Nexus between Transitional Justice and Development
Remedies for victims of violations of international humanitarian law
Specific Reparation for Specific Victimization
The Right to Compensation for Victims of an Armed Conflict
International Sentencing Facts and Figures
Reparation in Cases of Genocide
Victims' Reparations Claims and International Criminal Courts
Covid-19 amongst western democracies
War by Other Means
Post-Welfare State Governance
The Laws of Memory
Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul?’ 1 Compensation, Social Control and Social Suffering
The Position of Individuals in International Law
Foregrounding Socioeconomic Rights in Transitional Justice
Victim satisfaction with restorative justice
The collapse of the Yugoslav economy
The Cruelty of False Remorse
The Making and Breaking of Yugoslavia and Its Impact on Health
Balkan Babel
French Studies in International Law
Human Rights and Root Causes
Welfare States and Covid-19 Responses
Nationalism and the ‘idiocy’ of the countryside
The Need for a World Court of Human Rights
The politics of gender, witnessing, postcoloniality and trauma
What is neo-liberalism
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
Neither Settler nor Native
The Transition to the Human World of Democracy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |