Transitional Justice and Civil Society in the Balkans

From the reviews:“This is a very useful contribution both in summarizing the transitional justice experience in the Balkan region … and in highlighting the role that civil society can play in a transitional justice process. This collection would be useful not only for students and scholars of both transitional justice and Balkan politics but also for practitioners working in peace-building and conflict prevention. … this volume takes us one step closer to understanding both the contributions of and the limitations on civil society’s involvement in transitional justice.” (Julie Broome, Southeastern Europe, Vol. 37 (2), 2013)"I recommend this book to scholars unfamiliar with the processes of transitional justice in the Balkans. Even scholars and stakeholders who are already familiar with those processes in the Balkans will find some chapters enlightening because the book raises very important issues which need to be addressed by civil societies that are yet to deal with the past human rights violations. Further, the book highlights not only the need for different transitional justice mechanisms to be complementary (as it is brilliantly exemplified by Tamara Banjeglav in her case study about Croatia), but also for the government and non-government actors to work together.

Olivera Simić
is a Lecturer with the Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Australia. She holds an LLB from Nis University’s Law School (Serbia), an LLM from Essex University (UK), an MA from UN University for Peace (Costa Rica) and a PHD from Melbourne Law School (Australia). Her research engages with transitional justice, international law, gender and crime from an interdisciplinary perspective. Olivera has published in journals such as
International Journal of Transitional Justice,
Law Text Culture, Women’ Studies International Forum, Journal of International Women Studies, International Peacekeeping
as well as in books and book chapters
.
Her latest book,
Regulation of Sexual Conduct in UN Peacekeeping Operations, has been published by
Springer
in 2012.

 

Zala Volčič
is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland, Australia. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on topics including nationalisms in the Balkans, the cultural consequences of globalization, and media identities in former Yugoslavia. Her work has appeared in journals such as
Discourse and Society, Popular Communication,  Journal of Children and Media, Journal of Global Mass Communication, Canadian Journal of Communication, Social Semiotics, 
 
Information Communication & Society, ICMR / Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Critical Studies of Media Communication, and Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics.
Her latest book,
Serbian Spaces of identity, has been published by Hampton Press in 2011.