The witness experience : testimony at the ICTY and its impact

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The witness experience : testimony at the ICTY and its impact

Kimi Lynn King, James David Meernik

Cambridge University Press, 2017

  • : pbk
  • : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book provides the most comprehensive and scientific assessment to date of what it means to appear before war crimes tribunals. This ground-breaking analysis, conducted with the cooperation of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Victims and Witnesses Section, examines the positive and negative impact that testifying has on those who bear witness to the horrors of war by shedding new light on the process. While most witnesses have positive feelings and believe they contributed to international justice, there is a small but critical segment of witnesses whose security, health, and well-being are adversely affected after testifying. The witness experience is examined holistically, including witness' perceptions of their physical and psychological well-being. Because identity (gender and ethnicity) and war trauma were central to the ICTY's mandate and the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, the research explores in-depth how they have impacted the most critical stakeholders of any transitional justice mechanism: the witnesses.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Introduction to the survey and survey methodology
  • 2. Exploring the gender, ethnicity and trauma characteristics of the witness sample
  • 3. The witnesses and their encounter with international justice
  • 4. The witnesses and human security: the social, economic and security consequences of testimony
  • 5. The impact of testifying
  • 6. Perceptions of justice
  • 7. Conclusions.

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