Apr 21
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 ...
Mar 31
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 ...
