Srebrenica Historical Project takes great pleasure to announce the publication of the Proceedings of the scholarly symposium which was held under the Project’s auspices on 22-23 April 2009 in Moscow, at the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Proceedings are entitled: “International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia – activity, results, impact.” Scholars from several countries assembled in Moscow to take part in the symposium. Until now, the complex issues of ICTY and Srebrenica were not the subject of such comprehensive and objective scholarly analysis. The Moscow symposium is but the first step in the systematic work, which lies ahead, to remove these issues from the context of the media and propaganda and to raise them to a scholarly level, where they belong. The text which follows is the Foreword, authored by the president of Srebrenica Historical Project, which summarizes the topics dealt with at the symposium and discusses some future tasks.

An international conference entitled: “The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: direction, results, effectiveness” was held in Moscow, on April 22-23, 2009. The conference was co-sponsored by the Institute for the study of Balkan crises of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation and Srebrenica Historical Project. Participants at this inter-disciplinary conference included scholars from the United States, Great Britain, the Russian Federation, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Bosnia and Hercegovina. The intense two-day discussion was a retrospective on ICTY and a critical review of its accomplishments. Issues pertaining to Srebrenica received particularly close attention.