Dr. Nevenka Tromp (University of Amsterdam, European Studies) & Sir Geoffrey Nice (Gresham College, Law Studies; ICTY Prosecutor)
This panel focuses on the record of the trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Unlike other studies of the trial, Dr. Tromp’s analysis relies primarily on the trial record and advances the notion that such a record, even where the trial is unfinished, is a unique historical source that can shape the narrative of a conflict. Snapshots of behaviour displayed by Milošević in court and quotations of things he said while conducting his defence in combination with passages of carefully selected evidence from an immense archive familiar to few scholars, reveal the trial record as a truly invaluable source of history.