Abstract
This article discusses the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia that is beginning to employ a team of investigators, lawyers, and analysts who may--ultimately--identify, prosecute, and deter war crimes in Kosovo, observers might wonder what's taking so long and why the United Nations hasn't focused more emphatically on the Serbian military, paramilitary, and police attacks on ethnic Albanian civilians in recent weeks. Answers might include difficulties in identifying the behavioral referents of war crime, fears that more determined intervention might deleteriously affect humanitarian aid to the many internal refugees, fears that humanitarian aid personnel might be further intimidated and killed, concerns that equal time be spent on alleged ethnic Albanian war crimes against Serbian civilians, the need to appear even-handed, and even what might be termed the fatigue of war and atrocity perception.
Recommended Citation
Editor, IBPP
(1998)
"Trends. Kosovo and the United Nations: A Paean for Application of Psychological Research on Good Samaritanism,"
International Bulletin of Political Psychology: Vol. 5
:
Iss.
9
, Article 5.
Available at:
https://commons.erau.edu/ibpp/vol5/iss9/5
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