The Ethics of Researching War - Looking for Bosnia (Paperback)

Developed through a series of encounters with a Bosnian Serb soldier, Looking for Bosnia is a meditation on the possibilities and limitations of responding to the extreme violence of the Bosnian war. Framed through the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, the book explores the ethics of confronting the war criminal and investigates the possibility of responsibility not just to victims of war and war crimes, but also to the perpetrators of violence. As such, Looking for Bosnia is a consideration of the human encounter, exploring the political and scholarly strategies through which the 'human' is often dismissed as 'inhuman.' In a political imaginary that seeks a neat distinction between good and evil, this book seeks to expose the complexity of these categories. To this extent, the book is as much about the role of the researcher as it is about how to approach genocide. In light of an increasing interest in the literature on post structuralist ethics, Looking for Bosnia explores the complexity of what it means to pursue justice after genocide. of international politics, ethics, fieldwork and research design, post-conflict reconstruction, and the Balkan Wars of the 1990s.