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Introduction
Mass atrocities
trials are like no other trials.
They are held, just as any other
criminal trial, to deliver justice
to victims, to punish perpetrators,
to mete out punishment and, by doing
so, to deter - or rather, to control
- the commission of crimes in
societies.
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Case
study
1
The purpose of
this paper is not to discuss whether
it would have been better to remain
in Yugoslavia rather than attain
independence. Despite the current
crisis and lack of prospects faced
by numerous individuals and social
groups, gaining independence or, to
put it more precisely, timely
gaining of independence, was
undoubtedly a better option for the
Slovenians as a national community.
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Case
study 2
In a passageway in
the centre of Ljubljana, for 25
years now there has been a graffiti
depicting a sinking ship named
Yugoslavia. During that time, many
other new graffiti and tags have
been added around it, but the image
has in essence remained intact.
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Case
study 3
In the following
text I’ll try to do the impossible:
review Yugoslavia from the
perspective of “memory studies”
-currently a very invigorating
interdisciplinary branch at the
productive intersection of
historical anthropology, the
sociology of time, cultural studies
and transition studies.
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Case
study 4
Democracies are
not unconditionally stabile. Whether
or not they will be depends on three
circumstances at least. One of them
is pluralism of interests. The other
are lasting, stable value system.
And the third is security: physical,
legal and social. How are
democracies being destabilized? And
what role does populism play in
this?
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