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Postwar initiatives for gender justice in Bosnia have failed to challenge the fundamental gender logics of national victim narratives, demonstrating that preventing mass atrocities requires dismantling the underlying gendered assumptions that uphold them. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To examine how gendered assumptions shaped the legal classification of genocide, the prosecution of wartime sexual violence, and postwar justice in the Bosnian war.

August 29, 2026Anthropological TheoryOpen Access

Genocide and the Bosnian war through a gender lens

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To examine how gendered assumptions shaped the legal classification of genocide, the prosecution of wartime sexual violence, and postwar justice in the Bosnian war.
Qualitative analysis of legal frameworks and rulings from the 1992–1995 Bosnian war, primarily the Srebrenica massacre judgment.
Review of international tribunal records concerning sexual violence prosecuted as crimes against humanity rather than genocide.
Assessment of postwar gender justice initiatives and dominant ethno-national victim narratives in Bosnia.
Judicial rulings categorized the sex-selective killing of over 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men at Srebrenica as genocide based on patriarchal assumptions that removing male community members would destroy the enclave's population.
Wartime sexual violence targeting women and men was prosecuted as crimes against humanity rather than genocide, generating tension between ethno-national collective justice and gender-based violence redress.
Postwar justice initiatives failed to substantially dismantle the traditional gender logics that continue to dominate national victimhood narratives and public politics.

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Qualitative legal analysis reveals how gendered assumptions shaped genocide rulings in the Bosnian war, highlighting that atrocity prevention requires dismantling underlying gender hierarchies.

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Elissa Helms (2026) studied this question.

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Qualitative legal analysis reveals how gendered assumptions shaped genocide rulings in the Bosnian war, highlighting that atrocity prevention requires dismantling underlying gender hierarchies.

Genocide and the Bosnian war through a gender lens

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