News and Events
- 15th November 2013 Postgraduate Research Day
- 14th November 2013 Book Launch - The Politics of Memory in Chile
- 20th February 2013 'Surveillance, Fear and Israeli Colonialism' with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 21st February 2013 'The Politics of Birth in Jerusalem' with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 24th January 2013 'Granito': Film Screening and Discussion with Profs. David Tombs (TCD) and Cath Collins (UU)
- 2nd February 2012 ‘Roots and Dynamics of the Ongoing Revolutionary Upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa’
- 1st November 2011 Seminar: The Silent Plague, Hunger, Justice and Money in the 21st Century by David Rieff
- 21st October 2011 “Against Remembrance” by David Rieff
- 4th April 2011 “Surviving field research: Working in violent and difficult situations”
- 25th February 2010 Inaugural Lecture by Professor Kadar Asmal
- 20th May 2010 International Law in Domestic Courts: Rule of Law Working Group
- 17th June 2009 Celebrating World Refugee Day
- 23rd June 2009 Sex Trafficking and Prostitution: The Dilema of Demand
- 26th June 2009 Torture & Post-Conflict Justice
Centre for Post-Conflict Justice, Trinity College Dublin
Postgraduate Research Day
DATE: 14/15th November 2013
TIME: 9am - 5:30pm
VENUE: IIIS Seminar Room, Sutherland Centre, TCD (Directions to the IIIS)
This conference is being run by and for postgraduate research students in conjunction with the Centre for Post-Conflict Justice at Trinity College Dublin. The day will consist of three themed panels (Law, Politics and Sociology, Peace Studies and Education) with student paper presentations lasting 10-12 minutes that will be followed by feedback from scholars working across relevant fields. We have invited respondents for our three panels: Colin Harvey (QUB), Law; Cath Collins (UU), Politics; and Iain Atack (TCD), Sociology, Peace Studies and Education.
The day is also intended to be an informal networking opportunity, bringing together students and faculty from different departments, colleges and universities. Unfortunately, we are unable to cover travel and accommodation costs; however, tea/coffee and lunch will be provided on the day.
Book Launch
DATE: 14th November 2013
TIME: 6-8pm
VENUE: Irish School of Ecumenics, the Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin (Directions to the ISE)
A booklaunch will be held for Cath Collins, Katherine Hite and Alfredo Joignant (eds.) 'The Politics of Memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet' (Boulder, CO: First Forum Press 2013), hosted by the Irish School of Ecumenics and the Centre for Post-Conflict Justice. Speaking at the book launch will be Cara Levey, Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University College Cork.
All are invited to attend - this will especially be good for attendees of the PG Research Day to get to know the other attendees and speakers.
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All academics and research students, including potential research students, who work in areas related to Post-Conflict Justice are invited to attend both events. Please register your interest at cpcj@tcd.ie.
Department of Sociology, TCD & the Centre of Post-Conflict Justice, TCD
'Surveillance, Fear and Israeli Colonialism'
with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
DATE: 20th February 2013
TIME: 7-9 pm
VENUE: Robert Emmet Theatre, Arts Building, TCD, Dublin 2
Control and monopoly over territory, life, terminology and the practice of naming enables colonizers to accumulate their power through dispossession, and simultaneously recompose themselves with the other. By discussing surveillance over colonized Palestinian subjects, Prof Shalhoub-Kevorkian argues that colonial dispossession functions in different layers. The presentation will use David Harvey’s concept “accumulation of dispossession” to claim that surveillance over living and dead bodies of the colonized, and the military control over their land, life and political economy, imposes new regimes of regulation and accumulation by dispossession, and veils the exploitative relationships between the colonized and the colonizer.
The psychological violence - including the promotion and production of the colonized as feared other and the legal violence that legislates laws and regulations and produces the colonized, as Fanon explains, in “zoological” terms, imposes heavy surveillance over the colonized. By discussing Israel’s surveillance regime in Occupied East Jerusalem, Prof Shalhoub-Kevorkian wishes to discuss the historical injustices and the coercive power of continuing dispossession that manufactures the colonizer as socially superior, while denying the colonized the right to home, family, society, and dignified living. Understanding the way Israel’s surveillance regime contributes to accumulation by dispossession will have a crucial bearing on the organization and articulation of dissent in the present.
Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a leading expert on human rights and women’s rights, especially within Israel/Palestine. She has been visiting professor at the Faculty of Law at Georgtown University, and is a professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She is also a member of the Trauma, Peace-building and Development Project of the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
A prolific author, Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s main fields of research include gendered violence, crimes of abuse of power, surveillance, securitization and social control, and trauma and recovery in militarized zones. Her latest book, Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian case-study, was published by Cambridge University Press (2010). She has recently published reports on the politics of birth in Jerusalem and the trauma associated with military occupation. Among her latest journal articles are "E-Resistance and Technological In/Security in Everyday Life," British Journal of Criminology (2011); and “The Grammar of Rights in Colonial Contexts: The Case of Palestinian Women in Israel,”Middle East Law and Governance (2012).
Department of Sociology, TCD & the Centre of Post-Conflict Justice, TCD
'The Politics of Birth in Jerusalem'
with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
DATE: 21st February 2013
TIME: 1-3 pm
VENUE: Room 1.16, 3-4 Foster Place, Dublin 2
Understanding the meanings ascribed to and experiences of childbirth for women who live in violent colonial contexts is challenging. This presentation explores the politics, practices, and subjective experiences of pregnancy and childbirth for Palestinian women living in Occupied East Jerusalem (OEJ). It examines women’s particular experiences, understandings, and practices in multiple dimensions, including physical, spatial, political, social, and psychological. The departure point is that Palestinian women in OEJ live in a violent context of settler colonialism. My understanding of settler colonialism is as an inherently eliminatory structure (Wolfe, 2006), with the primary motive underlying this desire for elimination being access to territory and to individuals in communities.
In viewing the realities of Palestinians living in Jerusalem through the lens of settler colonialism, the presentation will also be overlaid with a spatial, legal and temporal analysis, as Prof Shalhoub-Kevorkian will focus on identifying how living in different areas in Jerusalem, and with different residential statuses or lack thereof, affects women’s experiences at a time of particular vulnerability, when and while giving birth. Specifically, women’s locations and statuses in OEJ and the wider Jerusalem area will be examined so as to map the overall situation for pregnant and birthing Palestinian women in the city and its environs. Considering the fragmentation of East Jerusalem by various checkpoints, walls, and other restrictions on movement (generally enacted by the municipality under the guise of “security”), these legal and spatial emphases are key to understanding the issues faced by pregnant and birthing Palestinian women there. They will enable me to forge a well-rounded account of the consequences of the Jewish state’s settler-colonial policies on Palestinian women’s birthing experiences in Occupied East Jerusalem.
Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a leading expert on human rights and women’s rights, especially within Israel/Palestine. She has been visiting professor at the Faculty of Law at Georgtown University, and is a professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She is also a member of the Trauma, Peace-building and Development Project of the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
A prolific author, Dr. Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s main fields of research include gendered violence, crimes of abuse of power, surveillance, securitization and social control, and trauma and recovery in militarized zones. Her latest book, Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian case-study, was published by Cambridge University Press (2010). She has recently published reports on the politics of birth in Jerusalem and the trauma associated with military occupation. Among her latest journal articles are "E-Resistance and Technological In/Security in Everyday Life," British Journal of Criminology (2011); and “The Grammar of Rights in Colonial Contexts: The Case of Palestinian Women in Israel,”Middle East Law and Governance (2012).
Centre for Post-Conflict Justice, TCD/Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster/Irish School of Ecumenics
'Granito: How to Nail a Dictator' - Film Screening and Discussion
with Dr. Roddy Brett, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews
co-hosted by Prof. David Tombs, Irish School of Ecumenics, TCD and Prof. Cath Collins, TJI, UU
DATE: 24th January 2013
TIME: 6:30pm
VENUE: Irish School of Ecumenics, 683 Antrim Rd., Belfast
The film, 'Granito': How to Nail a Dictator (2011) (http://skylightpictures.com/films/granito) is a story of how a documentary film on Guatemala’s conflict became an active player in a present-day genocide trial and will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Roddy Brett, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews. The evening is co-hosted by Prof. David Tombs, CPCJ/ISE, TCD and Prof. Cath Collins, TJI, UU.
Dr. Brett spent a decade in Guatemala and Colombia, working as an academic and practitioner in the fields of indigenous and human rights and post-conflict justice. He lived and worked in communities that had experienced the massacres of the counterinsurgency in the 1980s, and was actively involved in the trial investigation for the cases in Guatemala against Rios Montt, Lucas Garcia, Mejia Victores and their high commands (for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity). He has acted as Advisor to the United Nations Development Programme in both Colombia and Guatemala, and to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Guatemala. Dr. Brett also served as Advisor on Indigenous Affairs to the Norwegian Embassy in Guatemala.
All are welcome, but since places are limited, if you would like to attend, please contact Caroline Clarke at the ISE in Belfast on (028) 9077 0087 or email reconsec@tcd.ie. Directions are available at www.ecumenics.ie/contact-us.
Centre for Post-Conflict Justice / Department of Sociology / MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict
Roots and Dynamics of the Ongoing Revolutionary Upheaval
in the Middle East and North Africa
By Professor Gilbert Achcar, School of Oriental and African Studies
- DATE:
- Thursday 2 February 2012
- TIME:
- 1900-2100
- VENUE:
- Thomas Davis lecture theatre, Arts Block, TCD
The Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) The Trinity International Development Initiative (TIDI)
The Centre for Post-Conflict Justice invite you to a seminar
The Silent Plague: Hunger, Justice And Money In The 21st Century
By David Rieff
- DATE:
- Tuesday 1st November 2011
- TIME:
- 4.30-5.30 p.m.
- VENUE:
- Long Room Hub, TCD
Internationally acclaimed author and journalist David Rieff currently teaches History of Humanitarian Action at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences-Po. During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia. Now a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and a contributing editor for the New Republic, he has written extensively about Iraq, and, more recently, about Latin America. He is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research, a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he is a board member of Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute and of Independent Diplomat. He is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis.
Against Remembrance
- DATE:
- Friday 21st October 2011
- TIME:
- 16.00-18.00
- VENUE:
- IIIS Seminar Room, 6th Floor Arts Building, Trinity College
David Rieff will discuss his recent book Against Remembrance, followed by comments on healing through remembering in Northern Ireland by Geraldine Smyth and memory and the Palestinian Nakba by Ronit Lentin.
Internationally acclaimed author and journalist David Rieff currently teaches History of Humanitarian Action at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences-Po.During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia. Now a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, and a contributing editor for the New Republic, he has written extensively about Iraq, and, more recently, about Latin America. He is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School for Social Research, a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he is a board member of Central Eurasia Project of the Open Society Institute and of Independent Diplomat. He is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night:Humanitarianism in Crisis. His memoir of his mother's final illness, Swimming in a Sea of Death, appeared in January 2008. His most recent book is entitled Against Remembrance (2009).Currently he is working on a book about the global food crisis.
Surviving Field Research: Working In Violent And Difficult Situations.
By Professor Chandra Sriram, SOAS
- DATE:
- Monday 4th April
- TIME:
- 14:00-15:30
- VENUE:
- Seminar Room, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Chandra Lekha Sriram is a Professor of Law at SOAS and the author and editor of various books and journal articles on international relations, international law, human rights and conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Her works include: Peace as governance: power-sharing, armed groups, and contemporary peace negotiations (Palgrave 2008); Globalizing justice for mass atrocities: A revolution in accountability (Routledge 2005); and Confronting past human rights violations: Justice versus peace in times of transition (Frank Cass 2004). In 2010, the book she co-edited with Suren Pillay, Peace versus justice? The dilemma of transitional justice in Africa, Durban: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009 and Oxford: James Currey, 2010) won an Outstanding Academic Title award from choice, of the American Librarian Association. She was previously founder and director of the interdisciplinary Centre on Human Rights in Conflict at the University of East London.
Centre for Post-Conflict Justice Inagural Lecture
Post-Conflict Justice: An Industry or a Necessity
By Professor Kadar Asmal
Opening Remarks by The Provost, Dr. John Hegarty
- DATE:
- Thursday 25th February 2010
- TIME:
- 18:00
- VENUE:
- The Public Theatre, Front Square, Trinity College Dublin
Professor Kader Asmal is Professor Extraordinary of Law at the University of the Western Cape and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town. He is former South African Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry and former Minister of Education.
Hosted by Centre for Post-Conflict Justice with the Amsterdam Center for International Law and COST ESF
International Law in Domestic Courts — Rule of Law Working Group
20-21th May 2010
40 scholars from over 25 counties will come to the Centre for Post-Conflict Justice to participate in the annual meeting of the International law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) project. The working group on the Rule of Law will bring together international legal experts to explore the rule of law and transitional justice through international law in domestic jurisdictions. Case studies will be presented on Serbia, Bosnia, Russia, Palestine, Iraq, Afganistan, and East Timor.
The ILDC project is inspired by the recognition that a proper understanding of international law requires knowledge of the role of domestic jurisdictions. Until now, access to domestic case law has been limited. Many cases are unpublished, few translated into English, and even if they are available, their effects may not be fully understood without explanations about the underlying domestic legal system. With a growing network of national reporters, covering over 70 jurisdictions already, ILDC aims to bring to light the full range of domestic jurisprudence not only from Western Europe, the Commonwealth and North America, but also from Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Central and South.
This event is funded by COST ESF11 different countries
Celebrating World Refugee Day In the Best Interests of the Child: Meeting the Needs of Separated Children Seeking Asylum in Ireland
- DATE:
- 17th June 2009
- VENUE:
- IIIS Seminar Room, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin
The Centre for Post-Conflict Justice and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees will host a half day conference in celebration of World Refugee Day and the 20th anniversary of the Convention of the Rights of the Child. This conference is generously supported by the EU Commission's Representation in Ireland.
The conference will be opened by Professor Michael Freeman, University College London, who will speak on the evolution and implementation of the ‘best interests of the child’ principle under international human rights law. This will be followed by a panel discussion with speakers from a variety of sectors in Ireland working with refugee and asylum seeking children who will address current Irish practice and policy in the area. For further information contact cpcj@tcd.ie .
Programme
- 9:00-9:30
- Arrival and Registration
- Welcome Rosemary Byrne, Director, Centre for Post-Conflict Justice
- Manuel Jordão, Representative in Ireland of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Session One
- Twenty Years On: The Best Interests of the Child Principle in International Law
- Chair - Rosemary Byrne, Director,Centre for Post-Conflict Justice
- Keynote Address
- Professor Michael Freeman, University College London
- Discussant: The Implications of the Best Interests of the Child Principle for National Asylum Procedures
- Emilie Wiinblad Mathez, Protection Officer, UNHCR Ireland
- Coffee break
- Session Two
- Challenges of Implementation Irish Law and Practice
- Chair - Suzanne Egan, Commissioner, Irish Human Rights Commission
- Panelists
- Geoffrey Shannon, Special Rapporteur for Children in Ireland
- HSE Social Work team for Separated Children (to be confirmed)
- Jyothi Kanics, Separated Children Officer, Irish Refugee Council
- Sophie Magennis, Head of Policy and Legislation, Ombudsman for Children's Office
- Closing Remarks
- Martin Territt, Director of the European Commission's Representation in Ireland
Hosted By The Centre for Post-Conflict Justice, the Immigrant Council of Ireland and the Irish Human Rights Commission
Sex Trafficking and Prostitution: The Dilemma of Demand
Date: Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Venue: Swift Lecture Theatre, Room 214. A Ground Floor Arts Block, Trinity College
The features of post conflict societies that give rise to or facilitate sex trafficking are focal points for the international community’s efforts to combat trafficking. The role and responsibilities of receiving states in addressing the ‘demand’ in their own jurisdictions that fuels the trafficking of victims from these regions remains a subject of considerable controversy. This half day seminar examines how the international community responds to the dilemma of ‘demand’ in light of international human rights law. It also will discuss the implications of these approaches for Irish debate and policy. Canadian investigative journalist, Victor Malarek, author the The Nataschas will deliver the keynote address. For more information please contact the cpcj@tcd.ie.
Torture & Post-Conflict Justice
- DATE:
- Friday 26th June 2009
- TIME:
- 9:30-12:45
A half-day event organised to mark the annual anniversary of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. A videoconference link is planned for the ISE in Belfast. Further details: reavesj@tcd.ie
- 9:30
- Welcome, Dr. Rosemary Byrne, Centre for Post-Conflict Justice
- 9:45
- Screening of documentary, 'Torture in Brazil'
- 10:45
- Coffee
- 11:15
- Dr. David Tombs, ISE, 'Torture in Brazil and Post-Conflict Justice'
- 12:00
- Dr. Peter Admirand, ISE, 'Accounts of Torture in Testimonial Literature'