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