Time: Wed Apr 12, 2023, 11:00AM – 12:00PM Location: Zoom Webinar and Keough School of Global Affairs Washington Office How can societies grapple with the legacies of conflict and human rights violations? How might they overcome traumatic cycles of ongoing violence? And what can spiritual traditions teach them about moving forward toward a better future? Join us for a … Read more
Time: Tue Mar 26, 2024, 4:00PM – 5:30PM Location: Auditorium and Great Hall, Hesburgh Center for International Studies Colombia, Lebanon and Northern Ireland served as sites for a recent research project that examined conflict associated with micro-dynamics of everyday inter-group encounters. Drawing on the project’s findings, Roger MacGinty will highlight how everyday agency can be identified and categorized. Furthermore, research shows … Read more
Time: Thu Apr 18, 2024, 12:30PM – 2:00PM Location: 1030, Jenkins Nanovic Halls and Live on Zoom The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Span. JEP) is a transitional justice mechanism created as part of the 2016 peace agreement signed between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC-EP) guerrilla group. Colombia’s transitional tribunal was established to investigate, … Read more
Time: Fri Jan 27, 2023, 9:00AM – 11:00AM Location: 125 Hesburgh Library This workshop is focused on the main results of the quantitative and qualitative analysis by the Colombian Truth Commission’s Natural Language Processing Group and Data Analytic Group. It will summarize the textual dataset collected by the Truth Commission particularly interviews with victims, relatives, and witnesses, discuss the … Read more
Time: Tue Nov 7, 2023, 4:00PM – 5:30PM Location: C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies Seán Feenan will offer a lecture highlighting the development and success of the Reference Group as a peacebuilding model. The effort transformed from a discreet dialogue program to an integral part of tackling some of the most difficult issues in the North of Ireland, and … Read more
Time: Tue Dec 5, 2023, 4:00PM – 5:30PM Location: C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies and Live on Zoom Documenting human rights violations during armed conflict is difficult and can be dangerous, and the data that results is generally incomplete. Some records of violence are missing key information about the victim, the presumed perpetrator, or the context of the … Read more
Time: Tue Nov 28, 2023, 12:30PM – 2:00PM Location: C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies and Live on Zoom The inclusion of an ethnic and gender approach in the Commission for Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Repetition (CEV) was a mandate derived from the Colombian Peace Accord and the result of a long struggle by ethnic, women’s and LGBTIQ+ organizations. Lina … Read more
Time: Thu Mar 7, 2024, 12:30PM – 2:00PM Location: C103, Hesburgh Center for International Studies and Live on Zoom The inclusion of an ethnic and gender approach in the Commission for Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Repetition (CEV) was a mandate derived from the Colombian Peace Accord and the result of a long struggle by ethnic, women’s and LGBTIQ+ … Read more
