Night of the Dictatorships

The work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is coming to an end. The Tribunal is completing its mandate and finalizing the last proceedings. Due to cases at the ICTY involving Slobodan Milošević, Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić, these names have passed by multiple times during the past decade. But was the Tribunal a success? Did the Tribunal fulfill the goals it was established to reach? What challenges stood in its way? And what were the reactions of the local populations to the judgments? How should we evaluate the Tribunal’s work and what lessons can be learned? Alphons Orie (ICTY judge), Joost van Egmond (journalist) and Iva Vukusic (PhD candidate, Utrecht University) will talk about these questions from their own, different perspectives.

Alphons Orie is a Dutch judge at the ICTY. Before his start at the Tribunal in 2001, he was a criminal law lecturer at Leiden University, a lawyer for cases at the Hoge Raad (the Supreme Court of the Netherlands) and later he also became a justice at the Hoge Raad.

Joost van Egmond has worked as an independent correspondent for Southeast Europe in Belgrade since 2010. Van Egmond publishes for NOS, Trouw, Nieuwsuur, Time Magazine, Vrij Nederland and de Groene Amsterdammer.

Iva Vukusic is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University where she focuses on paramilitarism during the war of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia. Vukusic is a former journalist and editor and she spent the last eight years working in the field of human rights and war crimes prosecution.

The debate is moderated by David Muntslag, project leader at ProDemos.

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