46/2 - Qualestoria. Rivista di storia contemporanea. Anno XLVI, N.ro 2, Dicembre 2018

This contribution proposes a reflection on the resistance of women’s movements in former Yugoslavia to nationalism and to militarism manifested on multiple levels since the early 1990s together with the promotion of the culture of peace in the post-war period and the realization of the Women’s Court based on the feminist approach to justice. The Women’s Court understood as one of the modalities of pressure against the impunity of war crime and as a search for new forms of responsibility, since traditional justice, both national and international, does not provide answers to the complex issues of the past, nor is it sufficient to break with a criminal past, the vital pre-condition for the development of democratic society.

Fragmented after the Yougoslav dissolution, the Serbs of Serbia and Republika Srpska are still claimed by their intellectual and political elites as members of a single national body that transcends the borders. This article will aim at tackling the framework, modalities and outcomes of cooperation between the Serbian Republic and the Bosnian Serb entity in order to preserve the representation of this common nation within a «common spiritual space», through the reading of paradiplomacy.