ABSTRACT
This chapter examines two possible pathways to reconciliation as part of a holistic approach, namely media and education. If the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has not contributed to inter-ethnic reconciliation in Bosnia-hercegovina (BiH), Croatia and Kosovo, this raises the broader question of whether any international court can facilitate reconciliation. Widely associating ICTY with injustice, interviewees in the former Yugoslavia accused it, inter alia, of indicting and processing too few people, of undertaking politically-motivated prosecutions and of failing to sufficiently punish war criminals. In BiH, Croatia and Kosovo, it is clear that local communities are not well-informed about the ICTY and that there is little sense of local ownership of the judicial process. Other international courts have similarly struggled to connect with and engage local communities. The creation of the Coalition for RECOM can thus be viewed as an indirect part of the ICTY's legacy. It is to be hoped that RECOM will ultimately become a reality.
