Justice and Imagination videos
Justice and Imagination: Building Peace in Post-Conflict Societies
February 28-March 1, 2014
How can societies build lasting peace when they emerge from violent internal conflicts facing widespread trauma and loss of life, a disintegration of the social fabric, weakened state institutions, and broken economic structures? From Syria to Guatemala, countries around the world wrestle with this question. The conference brings together leading authorities from around the world to analyze which processes of transitional justice, forms of reconciliation and memory, and conditions for economic and social policies increase the effectiveness of peace building and reconstruction in post-conflict environments.
Juan Mendez
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Justice and Peace: Can we have both?
February 28, 2014
Kathryn Sikkink
Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
How do we measure and assess the effectiveness of transitional justice?
March 1, 2014
Lavinia Stan
Director
Center for Post-Communist Studies
St. Francis Xavier University
Canada
Determinants of post-communities transitional justice: an overview
March 1, 2014
Leslie Vinjamuri
Associate Professor and Codirector
Center for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice
SOAS
University of London
Why is there a backlash against the international criminal court and does it matter?
March 1, 2014
Ervin Staub
Professor Emeritus
Psychology
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Principles of reconciliation and some applications in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo (DRC)
March 1, 2014
Malathi de Alwis
Visiting Professor
Faculty of Graduate Studies
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Violence, Memory and the Politics of Reconciliation in Sri Lanka
March 1, 2014
Judy Barsalou
President
El-Hibri Foundation
Washington D.C.
Contested politics, Contested narratives: The struggle over historical memory in the Middle East
March 1, 2014
James Boyce
Director
Program on Development, Peace-building and the Environment
Political Economy Research Institute
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Building peace or fueling conflict? International assistance to war-torn societies
March 1, 2014
Graciana del Castillo
Former Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Economics
Columbia University
Reconstruction zones as a driver for Investment, Trade, Employment, Food and Human Security
March 1, 2014
Jonathan Goodhand
Professor in Conflict and Development Studies
SOAS
University of London
Winning hearts and minds? Aid, reconstruction, and counter insurgency in Afghanistan
March 1, 2014