DANYLIW RESEARCH SEMINAR ON CONTEMPORARY UKRAINE

Documenting War Crimes and Building Transitional Justice: Lessons from the Western Balkans for Ukraine’s Path Forward

The presentation will address transitional justice efforts in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, and Kosovo, analysing their models, successes, and failures. It also evaluates the current processes in Ukraine and assesses whether lessons learned from the Balkans can help Ukraine design more effective justice strategies. As of May 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine had registered over 162,000 cases of war crimes.

Anastasiia Chupis, from Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine), is a Visiting Researcher at the School of Social Sciences at Södertörn University (Sweden).

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