ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that about 20 days after the faithful Serbian decision to drop the peace proposal, UN Security Council passed Resolution 827 to 'establish an international tribunal for the sole purpose of prosecuting persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia'. As International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was slowly emerging in the next couple of years, few believed that the main actors would face justice. Yet, Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic were indicted in 1995, Slobodan Milosevic in 1999, Momcilo Krajisnik and Biljana Plavsic in 2000. The Vance-Owen peace plan (VOPP) was the first comprehensive proposal for ending the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In order to maximize their epistemological effect, these documents need to be carefully scrutinized, brought into connection with other available information and contextualized within an existing body of knowledge.
