Lost in Srebrenica : responsibility and subjectivity in the reconstructions of a failed peacekeeping mission

Lost in Srebrenica is an interdisciplinary PhD thesis in the areas of Dutch/UN Peacekeeping in Srebrenica, international politics, genocide studies, ethics and foreign politics, international law and history. The events in Srebrenica are still haunting international politics as “Europe’s Worst Massacre since the Second World War,” as can be illustrated by the new and old Srebrenica issues regularly popping up in the media. A recent example is Robert Fisk stating in the Independent that “the phantoms of Srebrenica move across our planet faster than we realise, high-speed ghosts whose shadows darken the prisons of Libya and then the towns of Syria.” Lost in Srebrenica discusses the sources of the “spectre of Srebrenica” and relates the Srebrenica investigations and reports to the on-going processes of the shaping and framing of international responsibility. Lost in Srebrenica demonstrates that the proceedings at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague and other reports on Srebrenica are not only doing justice to the events in Srebrenica, but also play a role in closing off conditions of possibility for international responsibility in the juridical representations of the cases. It analyses the process in which the violence in Srebrenica became a subject in discourse and relates this to the constitution of both international and individual responsibility. It argues that important questions of ethics and politics get lost in the positivist representations of the traumatic events. Through an exploration of the premises in the various reconstructions, it touches upon some key political issues of international studies including the ethics and effectiveness of international intervention, the conceptualisation of the violence as genocide, ethnic identity and community, the foreseeability of events, and the role of witnesses and bystanders to the crimes. Although this study refers to past events, it aims to give a political analysis of the continuing process of the shaping and framing of international responsibility and subjectivity in the Srebrenica discourse rather than providing a historiography of a failed UN peacekeeping mission. Table of contents 1. Introduction: Confronting global trouble 2. Lost in International Relations theory: Subjectivity, ethics and responsibility 3. Lost in definitions: The making of Srebrenica into a global problem 4. Lost in revisionism: The relationality of truth 5. Lost in instrumentalism: The depoliticisation of military action, diplomacy and genocide 6. Lost in hard knowledge: Uncertainty, intelligence failures and the “last minute genocide” of Srebrenica 7. Lost in social order: State narratives and the memory of trauma 8. Lost in codification: Resisting state narratives and the strive for healing, closure and objectivity 9. Lost in closure: Visions for the future

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Reference: 
Erna Akkelina Christine Rijsdijk | 2012
177 p | [S.l. : s.n.]
http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl/handle/1871/32725

Met lit.opg. en samenvatting in het Nederlands
Proefschrift Amsterdam, VU
Placement code: 
s5.5 RIJS