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Wednesday 13 March
Thursday 14 March
Friday 15 March
Saturday 16 March
13:00 - 16:00

Exposition "Migrating Heritage" & Justice Visions Multimedia Exhibit

In-person, Lounge Between Heaven and Earth
  • Sofie Verclyte, Researcher at KASK & Conservatorium (school of arts HOGENT) and the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University & members of the Justice Visions team
17:00 - 17:30

Conference Kick-off and Welcome

Online
In-person & streamed online, Chapter Room
  • Welcome by Dr. Michel Tison, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University Project
  • Conference highlights by Dr. Tine Destrooper, Professor Transitional Justice at the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University and Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded Justice Visions project
17:30 - 19:00

Keynote Lecture 'When Victims Fight for Justice: A Conversation between Arts, Activism, Academia and Institutions'

Online
In-person and streamed online, Chapter Room
  • Dr. Julissa Mantilla, Professor at the Catholic University of Peru, former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, former Rapporteur on the Rights of Women and on Memory, Truth and Justice
  • Dr. Luke Moffett, Professor at Queen's University Belfast, School of Law
  • Gerardo Salinas, Argentinian theatre maker, city dramaturge at Royal Flemish Theatre
  • Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, Mayan human rights activist and co-founder of the National Association of Guatemalan Widows (CONAVIGUA)
19:00 - 20:30

Welcome Reception

9:00-10:00

Plenary Session ‘Looking Back: Challenges, Opportunities & Disruption in TJ Research’

Online
In person and streamed online, Chapter Room
  • Conversation with Justice Visions team members Dr. Brigitte Herremans, Dr. Elke Evrard, Gretel Mejía Bonifazi & Christian 'Cito' Cirhigiri
  • Moderated by Dr. Evelyne Schmid, Professor of International Law, University of Lausanne (UNIL), International Advisory Board Member of Justice Visions
10:30 - 12:00

Parallel Sessions A

Stream 1 • Panel: TJ through the Lens of International Criminal Justice
Online
Hybrid, Chapter Room
  • Catalyzing Victim-oriented Justice Nationally and in The Hague Through an Inclusive Complementarity Division: A Design Proposal Dr. Miracle Chinwenmeri Uche
  • To what Extent Judicial Mediation Answers the Dilemmas of International Criminal Legal System Judge Mostafa Mohamed Helmy Ahmed Elsherif
  • Victim Participation At A Crossroad: A Promising Avenue Forward Or Not? Dr. Rudina Jasini (online)
  • Sexual and Gender-based Violence Victims and International Criminal Tribunals: A Symbiotic Relationship? Dr. Marie Wilmet
  • Chair: Dr. Brianne McGonigle Leyh
Stream 2 • Panel: The Politics of Victimhood, Memory and Reparation
In-person, Lady's Mantle
  • Reparations as Resistance Dr. Luke Moffett
  • The Political Purpose of Victim Participation: Omens for Memorialisation ‘From Above’ in NI Micheál Hearty
  • Victimhood, Agency and the Mobilisation of Empathy Dr. Cheryl Lawther
  • Who are Franco's victims? The political life of a social and legal category Dr. Vincent Druliolle
  • Chair: Gretel Mejía Bonifazi
Stream 3 • Panel: Participation, Innovation and Contestation in Colombia
In-person, Calefactory
  • Activism of Afro-descendant Grassroots Organisations and its Impact on Colombian Transitional Justice Dr. Adelaida Ibarra
  • Breaking the mould? Social movements and the "ideal victim" of sexual and gender-based violence in Colombia’s transitional justice Daniela Suárez Vargas
  • Bridging the gap: Transitional Justice, Victims, and Businesses and Human rights in Colombia Marta Paricio Montesinos
  • Weaving ontologies: Intercultural and interlegal translators at the JEP Nina Bries Silva
  • Living Participation in Transitional Justice Mechanisms: Enabling and Constraining Factors in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace Model (Colombia) Juliana Galindo Villarreal & Rebeca Huete Salazar
  • Chair: Christian 'Cito' Cirhigiri
Stream 4 • Roundtable: Experiences of Gambian Survivors in Domestic and Universal Jurisdiction Cases
Online
Online, Lavender
  • Speakers: Fatoumatta Sandeng Darboe, Muhammed Sandeng, Isatou Jammeh
  • Chair: Dr. Nina Burri
Stream 5 • Panel: Justicia Transicional en América Latina: Experiencias de Victimización, Búsqueda y Memoria
Online
Hybrid, Rosemary
  • Armar el Relato de Nuestro Pasado: La Experiencia del Proyecto Memorízate Nadia Gayoso de la Calle (online)
  • Vínculos entre la Lucha contra la Desaparición Forzada y la Construcción de Paz Sabina Puig Cartes & Sílvia Plana Subirana
  • Chair: Sarah Kerremans
13:00 - 14:30

Parallel Sessions B

Stream 2 • Panel: The Distributional Outcomes Crafted by Transitional Architecture: Victim-Centered Spaces in Colombia’s Transitional Processes, Debates and Institutions
In-person, Chapter Room
  • Transitional Justice and Racialized Victims’ Participation: Understanding the Interaction between Ancestral Authorities of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Communities and Transitional Judicial Authorities in Colombia Yuri Alexander Romaña-Rivas
  • The Complementarity Paradigm: Tracing the Transitional Justice Blueprint in the Inter-American System of Human Rights Anamaría Muñoz Rincón
  • Childhood Exposure to Wartime Practices: Shifting Perspectives on Criminal Responsibility and Complex Political Victims Laura Acosta-Zárate
  • Victims of the Conflict, Conflicts over the Victims: Building Narratives and Opportunities of Participation Shaping the Definition of ‘Victims’ Juan Rivera-Rugeles
  • Chair: Anamaría Muñoz Rincón / Discussant: Ricardo Medina-Rico
Stream 2 • Panel: Unpacking Victim Mobilisation around Transitional Justice
In-person, Lady's Mantle
  • Long-term Victim Activism in a Context of Historical Injustice: The Case of Guatemala Dr. Eva Willems & Kim Baudewijns
  • Classification and Compensation of Victims. How Conflicts Shape Reparations in Post-War Justice Dr. Thorsten Bonacker
  • Navigating Non-Transition: Grassroots Victim Mobilization and the Pursuit of Transitional Justice in Turkey and Morocco Pia Falschebner & Dr. Nisan Alici
  • Connecting Procedural Justice Concerns and Understandings of Victim Participation in Search Processes: Lessons Learnt from Colombia and El Salvador Dr. Briony Jones & Dr. Mina Rauschenbach
  • Chair: Álvaro Okura
Stream 3 • Panel: ‘Aparadigmatic’ TJ: Spotlight on Syria
In-person, Lavender
  • Victim-centric Justice in the Syrian Context Wladimir Santana Fernandes
  • Understanding a Local-Centred Approach in Syria Roua Al Taweel
  • On Postcolonial Violence and the Post-Revolutionary Diasporic Agency: Syrian Justice Beyond the Koblenz Trials Maria Hartmann & Dr. Mina Ibrahim
  • Chair: Dr. Brigitte Herremans
Stream 4 • Panel: Historical Abuse, Colonial Violence and Victims’ Mobilisation for Justice
Online
Hybrid, Calefactory
  • Colonial Violence Heritages and the De-Voiced: Re-sculpting Participation Dr. Benjamin Thorne & Dr. Vicky Kapogianni
  • Historical Abuse in Dutch Catholic Institutions: A Qualitative Study of Victim-survivors’ Experiences with Redress Procedures Naomi Ormskerk
  • Lavvos in Front of the Parliament: The Norwegian TRC and Conflict over Land and Water Dr. Anne Margrethe Sønneland & Dr. Carola Lingaas (online)
  • Chair: Dr. Cira Pallí-Asperó
15:00 - 16:30

Parallel Sessions C

Stream 1 • Panel: TJ in Consolidated Democracies: Insights from the US & Netherlands
Online
Hybrid, Lady's Mantle
  • Truth Processes and Victim Participation in the United States of America Dr. Brianne McGonigle Leyh
  • Localizing and Globalizing Truth: U.S. Transitional Justice in Comparative Context Dr. Adriana Rudling (online)
  • A Momentum for Historical Injustice? Comparing Land Mark Cases in Civil Court Dr. Niké Wentholt
  • From Reparations to Repair in Civil Courts and the Public Debate? The Dutch Slavery and Colonial Past through a Transformative Justice Lens Dr. Nicole Immler
  • Chair: Dr. Tine Destrooper
Stream 2 • Panel: Tracing Victim-Participant Trajectories in Latin America
Online
Hybrid, Lavender
  • Despite the law: Strategies for Victim Engagement in Three Brazilian Truth Commissions Álvaro Okura
  • Stories of pain and courage: Assuming responsibility for justice Dr. Anne Margrethe Sønneland (online)
  • The Feminist Origins of the Right to Truth: Women as Merely Ancillary Subjects in Truth Commission in Latin America? Dr. Paula Cuellar Cuellar (online)
  • The Legacies of Collective Action: Why Families of Disappeared Persons Mobilized in Mexico 2001-2014 Laura López-Pérez
  • Chair: Kim Baudewijns
Stream 3 • Panel: Diversifying Epistemologies and Methodologies in, against, and beyond Transitional Justice
Online
Hybrid, Chapter Room
  • “Visible Mending” and Transitional Justice Dr. Matthew Evans (online)
  • Decentering and Decolonising the Field of Transitional Justice: Lessons from the Work of Colombia’s Truth Commission Dr. Claire Wright (online)
  • Victim Mobilisation as Participation and Transformation in Transitional Justice: Families of the Missing in Nepal Dr. Simon Robins (online) & Ram Kumar Bhandari
  • The Transitional Justice Citizen: From Justice Receiver to Justice Seeker Dr. Briony Jones (online)
  • Understanding the Implications of Victimhood Identity in Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict Dr. Nisan Alici (online)
  • Chair: Dr. Matthew Evans
Stream 4 • Panel: Victim-Driven Justice: ‘Participation’ as Labour, Agency and Resistance
Online
Hybrid, Calefactory
  • Victim-driven Resistance. A New Framework Dr. Valeria Vegh Weis (online)
  • #Workingforjustice: Victim Participation as Labour Dr. Leila Ullrich (online)
  • Shifting Directional Translation of Transitional Justice Rhetoric: The Role of Civil Society in Facilitating Advocacy and Mobilisation of Grassroots Transitional Justice Practices in Liberia Kelsey Rhude
  • Empowering Agency: Crafting Participatory Methodologies for People-Centered Justice Rebeca Huete Salazar & Juliana Galindo Villarreal
  • Conceptualizing Mnemonic Resistance to Autocratization Simone Benazzo
  • Chair: Dr. Arne Vandenbogaerde
Stream 5 • Panel: Experiencias de Justicia Transicional en Chile: Reflexiones y Desafíos
Online
Hybrid, Rosemary
  • Counting the Missing, Counting the Dead? Navegando Espacios Liminales en la Construcción Participativa de Mecanismos de Búsqueda de Personas Detenidas-Desaparecidas – El Caso de Chile Dr. Cath Collins (online)
  • Participación de las Víctimas en Chile: Justicia, Verdad, Reparación y Memoria Dr. Pietro Sferrazza (online) & Francisco Bustos
  • El Proceso de Justicia Transicional para las Mujeres Desaparecidas, Ejecutadas, Ex Presas Políticas en Chile Boris Hau (online)
  • Chair: Dr. Marit de Haan
17:00 - 18:30

Plenary Practitioner Roundtable ‘How Grassroots Innovations Travel’

In-person, Calefactory
  • Dr. Ma. Lourdes Veneracion, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
  • Annas Tello, Syrian Human Rights Activist, Advocacy and Community Organizing Manager, Women Now for Development
  • Jeannette Rosentreter, Psicóloga, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
  • Houcine Bouchiba, Tunisian Human Rights Activist, Founder of the Al-Karama Association, Representative and former Secretary of the Tunisian Coalition for Transitional Justice
  • Hamza Ben Nasr, Transitional Justice Coordinator for Lawyers Without Borders, Coordinator at the Tunisian Coalition for Transitional Justice
  • Dr. Mónica Mazariegos, Professor and Coordinator of the legal and political research department, Universidad Rafael Landívar
  • Dominique Kambala Nkongolo, former President of the Central Kasai Bar Association, Rapporteur for the provincial Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission for Kasai Central, Head of the Pedagogical University of Kananga
  • Khuochsopheaktra Tim, Programme Officer at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute in Cambodia
  • Moderated by Dr. Hugo van der Merwe, Senior Advocacy and Policy Officer at Global Survivors Fund & Ethics Advisor of Justice Visions
20:00 - 21:30

Concert and Talk Back 'What Can the Arts Do for Transitional Justice?'

In-person, movie theatre ‘Plateau’, Paddenhoek 3
  • Damast Duo Shalan Alhamwy and Jonas Malfliet
  • Talk Back Shalan Alhamwy, musician and composer, performer with Damast Duo, Olla vogala and the Expat Philharmonic Orchestra, artistic director of Jiraan Ensemble and Picea Orientalis; Dr. Brigitte Herremans, Justice Visions researcher; Dr. Paul Gready, Professor of Applied Human Rights and Director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York, coordinator of the project 'Can the Arts Save Human Rights?'
9:00 - 10:00

Plenary ‘Looking Forward: From Critical Transitional Justice to New Justice Imaginaries’

Online
In-person & streamed online, Chapter Room
  • Conversation between Dr. Tine Destrooper and Dr. Laurel Fletcher, Clinical Professor of Law at UC Berkeley’s School of Law, Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic
  • Moderated by Dr. Giselle Corradi, Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Research Consortium ‘UGent Human Rights Research Network’
10:30 -12:00

Parallel Sessions D

Stream 1 • Panel: Institutional Approaches, Gender and Gendered Violence in TJ
Online
Hybrid, Rosemary
  • Queering Childhood in Global Transitional Justice Dr. Caitlin Biddolph
  • Women's Rights and Latin American Social Movements: An Analysis of the "Campo Algodonero" Case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Víctor-Hugo García (online)
  • Exploring Top-down Approaches to Enhancing Victims’ Participation in Transitional Justice Processes at the Institutional Level in Ukraine (with a Special Focus on Conflict-related Sexual Violence) Dr. Iuliia Anosova
  • An Exception within an Exception? Gender, Power Dynamics and Transitional Justice in Post-revolutionary Tunisia Carla Prado
  • Chair: Dr. Maria Martín de Almagro
Stream 2 • Panel: Breaking the Stereotype of the Weak Victim: Contribution of Victims to Human Rights Legislation and Beyond
In-person, Calefactory
  • Lessons from Victims: The Role of Victims in Legal Evolution Within Domestic and International Law Beatrice Coscas Williams
  • Turning Victimhood into Agency through the Power of Stories: How Survivors Make Sense of Human Trafficking Experiences Victoria Wozniak-Cole
  • Political Genocide. A Legal Tale from Colombia Tatiana Fernández-Maya
  • Rethinking Domestic Courts in Transitional Justice Cases: Challenges and Opportunities for Justice, Agency, Participation and Recognition for Indigenous Women Victims of Conflict-related Sexual Violence in Guatemala Mariana Lara Palacios
  • Chair : Dr. Stephan Parmentier
Stream 2 • Roundtable: Victim-Defined Justice: Grassroots Activism, Resistance and Participation to Achieve Meaningful Change
Online
Hybrid, Chapter Room
  • Speakers: Dr. Louis Monroy Santander, Ahmad Helmi, Dr. Christalla Yakinthou, Galuh Wandita
  • Chair: Dr. Habib Nassar
Stream 3 • Panel: Pluralistic Perceptions of Truth and Justice: TJ in South East Asia
Online
Hybrid, Lavender
  • The Office on Missing Persons, the UN Human Rights Council and the Women Next of Kin of the Disappeared in Postwar Sri Lanka Dr. Chulani Kodikara
  • Transitional Justice, International Law, and Regional Particularism in Southeast Asia, with a Case Study in Cambodia and East Timor Fangyi Li (online)
  • Marginalised and Neglected: Perspectives from Ethnic and Religious Minorities on Sri Lanka's Transitional Justice Process Dr. Farah Mihlar
  • Chair: Dr. Ma. Lourdes Veneracion
Stream 4 • Panel: Reconsidering TJ from Below: Music, Objects, Theatre, Memoir
Online
Hybrid, Lady's Mantle
  • Singing Truth to Power: Transformative (Gender) Justice, Musical Spatialities and Creative Performance Dr. Maria Martín de Almagro
  • Storying Participation: Memoirs, Victims & Aparadigmatic Transitional Justice Dr. Lauren Dempster & Dr. Kevin Hearty (online)
  • ‘That’s How the Light Gets In’: Searching for Justice and Reconciling the Past in Jo Egan’s The Crack in Everything Emily Moore
  • Museum and the Narrative of Having Memory Rights: Art and Narrative from Museu da Maré in Rio de Janeiro Dr. Mariana Caldas (online)
  • Chair: Dr. Giselle Corradi
13:00 - 14:30

Parallel Sessions E

Stream 2 • Roundtable: Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador: Participatory Research and Co-Creation with Civil War Survivors
In-person, Chapter Room
  • Speakers: Dr. Ir. Arch Harold Fallon, Thomas Montulet, Evelia Macal, Dr. Adriana Alas, Fernando Chacón Serrano
  • Chair: Dr. Amanda Grzyb
Stream 3 • Panel: Reconceptualising Victim Mobilisation, Justice and (non-)Transition in the MENA Region
Online
Hybrid, Calefactory
  • Bottom-Up Transformative Justice: An Alternative to the Liberal Peace Paradigm in the Question of Palestine Tamara Tamimi (online)
  • Victims’ Agency and Relational Autonomy in Transitional Justice: Saturday Mothers' Experience Dr. Günes Dasli
  • Too Ordinary to Be Truths? Gender, Social Death, and the Biopolitics of Speech, in the Tunisian Truth and Dignity Commission Dr. Sélima Kebaïli
  • Tunisia's Experience of Transitional Justice Houcine Bouchiba
  • Chair: Dr. Brigitte Herremans
Stream 3 • Roundtable: Whose Victims, Whose Voice? Knowledge Production, Epistemic Inequality and Methodological (Power) Shifts in Transitional Justice
Online
Hybrid, Lady's Mantle
  • Speakers: Gabriela Zamora Castellares (online), Dr. Sanne Weber, Dr. Mijke de Waardt, Dr. Sandra Milena Rios Oyola, Dr. Selbi Durdiyeva (online)
  • Chair: Dr. Eva Willems
Stream 4 • Panel: The Possibilities of the Arts for Imagining Justice in Non-Transition
Online
Hybrid, Lavender
  • A Rights-Based Approach to Victims’ Participation in Aparadigmatic Contexts Dr. Huma Saeed
  • Art as Evidence and Evidence as Art: Thinking About Creative Approaches in Syrian Human Rights Trials Dr. Adélie Chevée (online)
  • The Perilous Art of Justice in South Sudan: Examining the Paradox of Artistic Invisibility in Transitional Justice in Times of Fragile Peace Dr. Sayra van den Berg
  • Prison Abolition and the International Criminal Court (ICC) Charlotte Carney
  • Chair: Sofie Verclyte
Stream 5 • Panel: Memorias y Contra-memorias: Aportes para una Participación Inclusiva
In-person, Rosemary
  • Víctimas de Violencia del Estado y Políticas Públicas de Reconocimiento y Reparación Dr. Laura Pego Otero
  • La Producción de Contra-memorias en el País Vasco desde una Epistemología Feminista: El Caso de las Mujeres Víctimas de Tortura Malena Rocío Maceira
  • Castigo, Perdón, y Respeto a las Víctimas Fernando Bracaccini
  • Chair: Dr. Laura Pego Otero
15:00 - 16:30

Parallel Sessions F

Stream 1 • Panel: Institutions, Discourse and the (De-)Construction of Victimhood and Justice in Transition
Online
Hybrid, Calefactory
  • Formal Participation, de Facto Exclusion? Institutional Design and the Impact of TJ Standardization in Uganda Dr. Thomas Obel Hansen
  • Victim Politics and State Representation as Participation in Transitional Justice Dr. Simon Robins (online) & Ram Kumar Bhandari
  • War and Peace by Other Means: The Narrative Construction of Victimhood in Societies Transitioning from Conflict Alejandro Posada-Téllez
  • Analysing Participatory Spaces in Post-Conflict Societies: Case Studies of Reparation and Reconstruction Programmes Dr. Justina Pinkeviciute
  • Chair: Dr. Elke Evrard
Stream 3 • Panel: Beyond Consultation: Towards more Meaningful Participation in Transitional Justice
Online
Online, Rosemary
  • Measuring Up: A Dialogical Model for Assuring a Reparative Process Dr. Lisa Laplante
  • Paradox of Justice: From Transitional to Everyday Justice Dr. Pamina Firchow
  • Chair: Dr. Lisa Laplante
Stream 3 • Roundtable : Transitional Justice Databases as Political Ecologies of Mnemonic Participation
Online
Hybrid, Lady's Mantle
  • Speakers: Aghniadi (online), Natasha Todi (online), Dr. Sophia Milosevic Bijleveld, Roula Baghdadi (online)
  • Chair: Benedict 'Bono' Salazar Olgado
Stream 5 • Roundtable: Género, Justicia Transicional y Violencia Sexual: La Importancia de la Participación de las Víctimas en los Casos de Violaciones de Derechos Humanos
Online
Hybrid, Chapter Room
  • Speakers: Dr. Julissa Mantilla, Gloria Cano (online), Karina Dianderas, Diana Portal (online)
  • Chair: Dr. Julissa Mantilla
17:00 - 18:00

Closing Remarks

Online
In person and streamed online
  • Dr. Louis Bickford, Adjunct Professor, Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, and founder/CEO of Memria.Org
  • Moderated by Gretel Mejía Bonifazi, Justice Visions researcher
10:00 - 12:30

Decolonial Walk in Ghent

In-person, start from the entrance of library ‘De Krook’, at Miriam Makebaplein 1
  • Labo vzw