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Jena O'Brien

Relational Accountability in Transitional Justice: Insights from Colombia’s Truth Commission Transmedia Files

Time: Tue Apr 21, 2026, 4:00PM – 5:30PM Location: Hesburgh Center for International Studies, Rm. C103 This project explores how Colombians, who lived through decades of armed conflict, understand justice, responsibility, and reconciliation. Using the Colombian Truth Commission’s innovative transmedia archive—including video, audio, text, and interactive storytelling—the study incorporates the voices of victims and former combatants, and also of … Read more

War and Peace by Other Means: Narratives of Victimhood and the Politics of Transitional Justice

Time: Tue Mar 31, 2026, 4:00PM – 5:30PM Location: Hesburgh Center for International Studies, Rm. C103 Providing redress to victims of wartime violence has become a cornerstone of contemporary transitional justice. Yet, formal transitional justice processes and mechanisms do more than address past injustices. They also construct deeply political narratives of ‘legitimate’ victimhood. The architects of these mechanisms make … Read more

Disappearance Studies Conference

Time: Mon Sep 29, 2025 – Tue Sep 30, 2025, All Day Location: 1050 Jenkins Nanovic Halls Disappearance Studies Conference The Journal of Disappearance Studies, in collaboration with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, invites you to attend its inaugural conference, scheduled to take place from September 29 – 30, 2025, at the University of … Read more

Collaborating for Peace: Reflections Emerging from a Recent Practice from the Global South

Time: Thu Sep 4, 2025, 9:30AM – 11:00AM Location: Live on Zoom Maria Prada Ramírez, former fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, recently published the policy report, “What makes international partnerships meaningful in transitional processes? The case of the Colombian Truth Commission (2018 – 2022).” The report draws on observations and lived experiences over her three … Read more

Book Launch: Victims-Centred Peacemaking: Colombia’s Santos-FARC-EP Peace Talks

Time: Wed Nov 6, 2024, 4:00PM – 5:30PM Location: Auditorium and Great Hall, Hesburgh Center for International Studies In this event, professor in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, and director of the Global Insecurities Centre, at the University of Bristol, Roddy Brett will present his monograph, Victim-Centred Peacemaking: Colombia’s Santos-FARC-EP Peace Process (Bristol University Press, 2024), which he wrote during … Read more

Workshop: Oral interviews in research as a form of care

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Time: Thursday, November 14th, 2024 | 12:30PM – 2:00PM Location: Hesburgh Center for International Studies, C103 Are you thinking of using interviews as part of your fieldwork? Wondering how to approach them? Or are you grappling with the ethical dimensions of using interviews in research?  In this workshop, Prof. Alison Ribeiro de Menezes will guide a collaborative and practical … Read more

Diversity and inclusion methodologies in transitional justice:Abest practice from the Colombian Truth Commission

Time: Friday, October 4th, 2024 | 12:00PM – 2:00PM Location: Hesburgh Center for International Studies, C103 Transitional justice mechanisms have become widespread for dealing with the past after the end of civil wars and in the transitions from authoritarian regimes to democracies. In their design and implementation, there is a growing acknowledgement of the need to center transitional justice … Read more

How Notre Dame helped end the war in Colombia

For 52 long years, Colombia was in turmoil due to a protracted civil war between the Colombian government and the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). When the warring sides signed the historic Colombian peace accord in 2016, Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies became responsible for verifying and monitoring its implementation—making … Read more

The Legacy Project nabs research award, encourages scholarly work with fellow Legacy Project grantors – deadline of Oct. 1

The Legacy Project: Preserving and Engaging the Digital Archive of the Colombian Truth Commission

The Legacy Project, an initiative of the Kroc Institute’s Peace Accords Matrix (PAM), was named the winner of this year’s Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society‘s Global Breakthrough Award. The $1,000 win celebrates the research achievements of Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, director of PAM and principal investigator for The Legacy Project, and the entire PAM research team. The … Read more

Kroc Institute hosts Colombian digital archive at the University of Notre Dame

The Legacy Project: Preserving and Engaging the Digital Archive of the Colombian Truth Commission

The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame has launched the Legacy Project, a new initiative to migrate a digital archive of more than 200,000 audiovisual and textual materials from the Colombian Truth Commission to the university’s servers and to develop a global platform. In collaboration with the Lucy Family Institute for Data and … Read more

The Legacy Project: Preserving and Engaging the Digital Archive of the Colombian Truth Commission

Time: Tue Jan 24, 2023, 4:00PM – 6:30PM Location: Auditorium, Hesburgh Center for International Studies/Zoom Webinar The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, in collaboration with the Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society and the Clingen Family Center for the Study of Modern Ireland celebrates the migration of the Colombian Truth Commission’s digital archives of transmedia (TM) content, … Read more

At the Other Side of the Bottleneck: Macro Criminal Investigation and Restorative Procedures in Transitional Justice

Time: Thu Mar 30, 2023, 12:30PM – 2:00PM Location: C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies Speakers Gabriel Rojas and Mateo Merchán will provide insights into the challenges and opportunities of addressing macro criminality in transitional contexts, and the role of restorative representation in achieving justice and reconciliation. This talk will focus on the work of the Special Jurisdiction for … Read more

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