Dealing with Uncertainty: On Addressing Enforced Disappearances Universally

Baranowska, Grażyna and Kolaković-Bojović, Milica (2025) Dealing with Uncertainty: On Addressing Enforced Disappearances Universally. In: Enforced Disappearances: On Universal Responses to a Worldwide Phenomenon. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9781009461719

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Abstract

Uncertainty. This simple word does not sound strong enough to describe all the seriousness and gravity of the consequences of an enforced disappearance. This human rights violation consists of an arrest, detention, abduction or other forms of deprivation of liberty by State agents or persons and groups acting with State authorization, support or acquiescence, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such a person outside the protection of the law. In this context, the meaning of uncertainty goes beyond the lack of information about circumstances of a disappearance and the unknown fate of a missing person. Uncertainty encompasses all the stress, pain, suffering and emotional imbalance caused not only to direct victims but also family members, relatives and others close to the disappeared person.

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