Transitional Justice and the 'Disappeared' of Northern Ireland Seminar

Описание: Recording of the Seminar "Transitional Justice and the 'Disappeared' of Northern Ireland" held on 31 August 2021. The seminar explores local and international issues of dealing with enforced disappearances.

Speakers at the Seminar

Dr Lauren Dempster, Lecturer in the School of Law at Queens University Belfast, who has just published in 2020: "Transitional Justice and the 'Disappeared' of Northern Ireland".

Respondent: Dr. Rainer Huhle, Germany, independent expert of the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearance (2011-2019). Member of the Coalition Enforced Disappearances in Colombia and lecturer at the Master of Human Rights program of the University Erlangen/Nürnberg

Moderator: Professor Brandon Hamber, the John Hume and Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace, Ulster University

The seminar is part of the "Following the Footsteps of the Disappeared", a three-year programme that started in Chile in 2019 incorporating seminars and a textile display to mark International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on 30 August. It will end in Mexico in August 2022.

"Following the Footsteps of the Disappeared" is a partnership between Conflict Textiles, the Ulster Museum and the John Hume and Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace, Ulster University.