Since the end of the wars of the 1990s, the post-Yugoslav countries have become, as famously stated by Eric Gordy and Jasna Dragović-Soso, a laboratory of transitional justice. The region featured the first International Criminal Tribunal (ICTY) to be ever established, one of the first mixed courts (the Court of BiH) created by international and domestic institutions together, several attempted truth and enquiry commissions, among which the first bottom-up initiative worldwide to form a regional truth commission (REKOM).

The Women’s Court that took place in Sarajevo also fits within this experimental trend. It adds a feministic approach to the variegated array of measures that try to bring some justice for the crimes committed during the war-ridden decade of the 1990s. From May 7 to 10, the Court allowed more than 30 women from all over the former Yugoslavia to tell their stories of violence and resistance to a supportive public of about 500 participants.