Šta blokira proces suočavanja u Srbiji
What blocks the coping process in Serbia

Contributor(s): Sonja Biserko (Editor)
Subject(s): Politics, History, Politics of History/Memory, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Keywords: Facing the past; Serbian nationalism; political and moral crisis; transitional justice; culture of remembrance; elite responsibility; post-Yugoslav reconciliation
Summary/Abstract: Since its establishment, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia has been documenting and publishing reports, papers, books and documentaries with the desire to memorize and record everything that was relevant to understanding the brutal disintegration of Yugoslavia and the role of the Serbian elite in that process. That is why the focus of the research from the beginning was on political as well as intellectual, cultural, religious and other elites, Serbian nationalism was a topic from the beginning. First of all, because a consensus was reached within them, which was implemented by the regime of Slobodan Milosevic. Already in the nineties of the last century, the concept of transitional justice has largely become a model for dealing with the past, especially in transitional countries. That concept implies a series of mechanisms that should ensure overcoming the past, with the establishment primarily of a legal framework that would ensure the transformation into a new value system.

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