Factors Contributing to Support for Reparation Following Mass Violence: The Case of Serbia
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The separation of the Former Yugoslavia, beginning in 1991, resulted in mass violence. Transitional justice was established to aid in developing measures to deal with mass victimization, as the shift from authoritarian regimes to democratic ones could not be resolved with the existing paradigms of restorative or retributive justice. Stephan Parmentier developed the TARR-III model, introducing a dialogical approach as a potential method to address crimes of this calibre, which is also the theoretical framework for the current research. Chi-square tests of independence with an accompanying measure of association t-tests, and logistic regression analysis were utilized to assess respondent’s perceptions of reparation following mass violence. Individual and societal levels of trauma were also considered, using secondary analysis of a population-based survey in Serbia in 2007. Overall findings suggest that a combination of responses, ranging from non-dialogical (court) to most dialogical (small groups) are required in order to address mass violence, with significant factors being respondents age, as well as the option to have stories shared in a variety of settings.