ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses safe area in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war. This chapter focuses on the aspect of humanitarian space because it was more conspicuous in Bosnia than it had been in northern Iraq. While tracing how a humanitarian space emerged in Srebrenica, it focuses on how this space was constituted in terms of the issue of security and what implications this constitution entailed. The chapter shows how contestation over the role of force in a humanitarian space significantly affects its very existence. Resolution 819 created a safe area in Srebrenica. The safe area envisaged in this resolution was a demilitarized space authorized by the Security Council with the government's endorsement and justified as compatible with Bosnia's territorial integrity. Throughout the conflict, Srebrenica as a safe area was divided by two imageries (as a mostly conventional humanitarian space and as a 'Muslim enclave') and by three principles of security involvement, and it was this division that resulted in its fall.
