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ACADEMIC UPDATE
Master of Science in Global Affairs (MSGA)
Academic Update
This past June, CGA ran its first field intensive related to justice in the former Yugoslavia.
Professors Jennifer Trahan and Belinda Cooper and a group of 13 students started out in The
Hague, where they interviewed prosecutors, judges, defense lawyers, and members of the
media at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International
Criminal Court. They also observed the ongoing trial of the former leader of the Bosnian
Serbs, Radovan Karadžic. They then travelled to Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where they
interviewed NGOs, academics, media, and court officials of the Sarajevo war crimes chamber
and observed trials. The group also took a somber bus trip to view the Srebrenica-Potocari
Memorial which commemorates the Srebrenica massacre, and which was preparing for the July
11 reburial of victims whose remains had been located over the prior year. Finally, the group
traveled to Belgrade, Serbia, where they met with NGOs, academics, and court officials of the
Belgrade war crimes chamber and observed war crimes trials. The professors and students
returned with a sense of the dedication of many involved in war crimes prosecutions and other
facets of transitional justice in the former Yugoslavia, but also with an awareness that the
ethnic tensions in the region are still very much alive, and that various communities still do not
acknowledge the crimes perpetrated in their names. CGA plans a return trip for June 2012.
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Top: Memorial listing the names of
children killed during the siege of
Sarajevo.
Bottom left: “Mladic to The Hague!” A
sign at the Youth Initiative for Human
Rights, an NGO the group visited in
Sarajevo.
Bottom right: The group gathers in front
of the International Criminal Court.
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