Citation

Jeffrey A. Environ. Plann. D Soc. Space 2009; 27(3): 387-402.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1068/d1209

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The arrest of Radovan Karadžić in July 2008 and his transfer to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has brought international judicial instruments under renewed scrutiny. In particular, the active pursuit of indicted war criminals across the international borders of the former Yugoslavia has challenged the primacy of the state as the locus of judicial authority. Using the arrest of Radovan Karadžić as a starting point, this paper evaluates the emergence of the ICTY and its contribution to peace building in the former Yugoslavia. It suggests that the ICTY is challenging existing international interventions within Bosnia—in particular, the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement—whilst simultaneously producing new judicial spaces and encounters. The paper calls for an understanding of international justice not as an abstract condition or outcome, but as a process that is incomplete and situated in space.