Independent Research Independent Research Students are encouraged to pursue independent research.
Potential themes can range from the purely theoretical to case studies.
Over the years, students' research have taken them to Beirut, Bosnia, Chiapas, China, Costa Rica, the Hague, Harlem, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Nepal, Northern Ireland, Sarajevo, and Turkey. They focused on NGOs because they work directly with the citizens who were most brutally affected by the war. The report is the result of a year of research and a conference held in July of 2000 organized with the cooperation of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Sarajevo that brought together the project's Board of Advisors, local NGOs, and the ICTY officials for three days to discuss the research findings. The project began after Tamy and Kristin visited the ICTY and realized that there existed a tremendous gap between the prosecutions at The Hague and the people of the former Yugoslavia. Their concern was that little information was being translated to the citizens of the society on whose behalf the ICTY was working.