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6 - ‘My Landlord, a War Criminal!’

Glorification, Denial, and Troubled Relationships with One’s Past Self

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2025

Maja Davidović
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Cardiff University
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Chapter 6 concludes the three-partite discussion about what hampers meaningful assurances of ‘Never Again’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and what transitional justice has to do with conflict recurrence anxieties. The chapter first identifies the widespread glorification of war criminals and denial of atrocity crimes as key sources of anxiety about potential renewed conflict in BiH. Next, the chapter analytically links these practices to the global project and discusses how past practices of legal and institutional reform such as vetting led to a legal structure that did not regulate convicted war criminals’ access to power. The chapter then explains these behaviours as responses to the perceived threats to different political communities’ ontological securities. The chapter shows how the resulting widespread practices of glorification and the culture of denialism are framed by the international community as a ‘civilisational issue’ which serves to prolong the relevance and presence of the external actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina and stigmatise actors in international society.

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Governing the Past
‘Never Again' and the Transitional Justice Project
, pp. 152 - 178
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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