Collection GOW, JAMES - GOW, James

Key Information

Reference code

GOW, JAMES

Title

GOW, James

Date(s)

  • chiefly 1990-2005 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

116 boxes and 8 outsize boxes

Scope and content

Papers, chiefly 1990-2005, relating to civil war in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia, and the resulting war crimes trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Collection includes: press briefings issued by the United Nations (UN) Peace Force, 1992-1995; issues of the Bosnian daily newspaper, Oslobodenje, 1992-1996; videotapes and audio cassette tapes of news coverage of the conflict; background information including reports, press cuttings and UN briefings for ICTY cases; correspondence, reports and court papers relating to legal claims by shipping firms against shipyards in former Yugoslavia; draft articles, background information and press briefings relating to international peacekeeping.

System of arrangement

The original order has broadly been maintained.

General Information

Name of creator

Biographical history

Joined King’s College London 1990; principal investigator, EC-funded projects on security and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, 1991-1997; expert advisor and expert witness, Office of the Prosecutor, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, 1994-1998; expert advisor to the UK Secretary of State for Defence during the 1997-1998 Strategic Defence review; consultant, 2010 Strategic Defence and Security review.

Custodial history

Placed in the Centre by Professor Gow, 2014.

Conditions governing access

Some material is CLOSED but most of the collection is open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.

Language of material

  • Bosnian
  • Croatian
  • English
  • Serbian

Script of material

Physical Description

Paper files, VHS videotapes and audio cassette tapes

Finding aids

This collection level description. Further finding aids may be available in the Reading Room.

Related materials

See also the Brook Lapping Death of Yugoslavia collection

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Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

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