The Collapse of Transitional Justice in Serbia
The Collapse of Transitional Justice in Serbia

Summary/Abstract: This paper shows the roots of the unsuccessful transitional justicein Serbia. From Milosevic to Kostunica, Djindjic and Tadic theirapproach to transitional justice was only to change the stylizationof carefully selected political statements. The author gives acritical review of the role of “democratic” leaders during the2000s and their often forgotten contribution to the “blurring ofreality”. Despite the more or less harsh rhetoric transitionaljustice had the same path and follows the same pattern.Transitional justice processes were monitored by relation analysisof other powerful (non)- state actors such as the Universities,school textbooks in which the young generations are nurtured,catalytic role of the media and intellectual elites, and above allpoliticized Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, led by “fatherof the nation” - Dobrica Cosic. This paper shows that deeplyestablished nationalism had the major role in the unsuccessfultransitional justice in Serbia.

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