The United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Srebrenica and the Struggle Against Genocide Denial

Gerstein Ben () and Karčić Hikmet ()
Additional contact information
Gerstein Ben: JD Candidate UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Karčić Hikmet: Institute for the Research of Crimes Against Humanity and International Law, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Comparative Southeast European Studies, 2025, vol. 73, issue 1, 3-35

Abstract: The adoption of the United Nations General Assembly Resolution A/RES/78/282, designating 11 July as the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide, embodies a significant effort in combating genocide denial. However, the Resolution generated substantial preemptive and reactive backlash, sparked by a global network of actors committed to revising the history of the 1990s. This article provides a detailed account of the resolution’s contextual history within the UN, as well as an analysis of the geopolitical and ideological underpinnings of Srebrenica genocide denial as a tool of regional nationalist and revisionist agendas. As a salient example, the article explores the coordinated campaign led by Serbia and Republika Srpska to undermine the resolution, utilizing it to mobilize nationalist tropes, discredit international institutions, and reinforce denialist narratives.

Keywords: United Nations; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Srebrenica; genocide; Serbia; The Yugoslav Wars and the Year 1995 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2025-0001 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:soeuro:v:73:y:2025:i:1:p:3-35:n:1006

DOI: 10.1515/soeu-2025-0001

Access Statistics for this article

Comparative Southeast European Studies is currently edited by Sabine Rutar

More articles in Comparative Southeast European Studies from De Gruyter
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().