Organizational-breakdown framing erased all criminal responsibility in Bosnia

Evidence

Moral equalizing could be achieved by portraying all sides as inhuman savages; it could also be achieved by ignoring atrocities. According to a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior advisor to Yasushi Akashi, the chief of the UN operation in Bosnia, the problems in Bosnia were not the result of ageold tribal hatreds but rather the effects of organizational breakdown-within both international and Yugoslav institutionsfollowing the cold war. There was no crime and, it was implied, no one really was responsible. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 350

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s existing material on how ‘systems’ language quietly dissolves agency — cf. trust scholarship showing guardians of trust become trustees requiring higher-order oversight.