Gendered Justice Gaps in Bosnia-Herzegovina

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  • Annika Björkdahl
  • Johanna Mannergren Selimovic

A gendered reading of the liberal peacebuilding and transitional justice project in Bosnia-Herzegovina raises critical questions concerning the quality of the peace one hopes to achieve in transitional societies. By focusing on three-gendered justice gaps-the accountability, acknowledgement, and reparations gaps-this article examines structural constraints for women to engage in shaping and implementing transitional justice, and unmasks transitional justice as a site for the long-term construction of the gendered post-conflict order. Thus, the gendered dynamics of peacebuilding and transitional justice have produced a post-conflict order characterized by gendered peace and justice gaps. Yet, we conclude that women are doing justice within the Bosnian-Herzegovina transitional justice project, and that their presence and participation is complex, multilayered, and constrained yet critical.

Original languageEnglish
JournalHuman Rights Review
Volume15
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)201-218
Number of pages18
ISSN1524-8879
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Research areas

  • Bosnia-Herzegovina, Critical agency, Gender, Gender-just peace, Transitional justice

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