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Professor of Transitional Justice @ Queen’s University Belfast. Researching transitional justice, victims, ex-combatants, truth, dealing with the past.

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CFP: Violence: Legacies of Conflict in Ireland
Comhfhios Boston Irish Studies at Boston College
Feb 7, 2026, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

All proposals should be 200 - 300 words, for papers 15-20 minutes long. Please submit all proposals by January 5th, 2026. Contact ComhfhiosBC@gmail.com

16.12.2025 07:50 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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CAJ 2025 Annual Lecture: 'Neither Confirm Nor Deny Policy' and Legacy Investigations | Delivered by PSNI Chief Constable, Jon Boutcher - Committee on the Administration of Justice This year’s CAJ Annual Lecture was delivered by Jon Boutcher, Chief Constable of the PSNI, on the theme of “‘Neither Confirm Nor Deny’ Policy and Legacy Investigations.” The lecture explored the appli...

A huge thank you to everyone who attended last night's CAJ Annual Lecture with PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher, exploring the NCND policy and its impact on legacy investigations.

You can now read the full transcript here: caj.org.uk/publications...

11.12.2025 11:00 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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What a privilege to be @cajni.bsky.social Annual Lecture delivered by Jon Boutcher, 24hrs after he delivered the landmark Operation Report

10.12.2025 19:54 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Congratulations!

07.12.2025 12:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🎉🎉🎉

12.11.2025 18:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University. This is open exclusively to scholars of any nationality with a PhD from institutions outside the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Scholars working in any area of Irish Studies are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176805

09.11.2025 09:14 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Cheryl Lawther Through the (Transitional Justice) Looking Glass: Unpicking Memory, Myth and Contested Victimhood.

A proud career moment: on 4 Dec, I will give my inaugural professorial lecture: ‘Through the (Transitional Justice) Looking Glass: Memory, Myth and Contested Victimhood’.

5.30pm - 7.30pm, Canada Room and Council Chamber, QUB.

Sign up 👇

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...

31.10.2025 11:51 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Thanks so much for coming!

29.10.2025 18:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Really looking forward to discussing my latest book ‘Constructing Victimhood’ @QUBMitchell on 29 Oct, 1pm - 2.30pm.

With Legacy back on the agenda, sign up and join this timely conversation: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/constructi...

16.10.2025 17:58 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Amazing! So many congratulations!

15.10.2025 22:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | The Tyee The haunting story of the refugee driven to name and prevent the greatest crimes of all.

As Lemkin knew, genocide hides in plain sight. “Genocide is so easy to commit because people don’t want to believe it until after it happens.”

Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | ⁦‪@TheTyee‬⁩ thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

02.10.2025 16:01 👍 52 🔁 38 💬 1 📌 2
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The Disappearance Studies Conference opened yesterday and continues today at Notre Dame.

The event marks the launch of the Journal of Disappearance Studies — an interdisciplinary platform to examine the phenomenon of disappearance worldwide.

@eliseferon.bsky.social @profcheryllawther.bsky.social

30.09.2025 20:09 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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🚨 What happens when #GenderbasedViolence occurs within armed groups and not only against civilians? Join us to examine how #TransitionalJustice processes recognise and respond to this often-overlooked violence.

🗓️ 22 Oct, 2–5 pm BST
📍QUB Moot Court & Online
🔗 Register & info: tinyurl.com/3re4nsj5

22.09.2025 11:28 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Disappearance Studies Conference …

The Journal of Disappearance Studies, with the Keough-Naughton Institute and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will hold its inaugural conference Sept. 29-30 at Notre Dame.

@eliseferon.bsky.social @simonrobins.bsky.social

▶️ See the full schedule: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...

19.09.2025 19:32 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Israeli doctors reveal their conflicted stories of treating Palestinian prisoners held in notorious ‘black site’ Sde Teiman Israeli medical staff who treated Palestinian captives in the wake of the October 7 attacks say they are haunted by their experiences.

Israeli medical staff who treated Palestinian captives in the wake of the October 7 attacks say they are haunted by their experiences.

17.09.2025 06:12 👍 6 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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Disappearance Studies Conference Disappearance Studies Conference The Journal of Disappearance Studies, in collaboration with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish…

happening at the end of the month - the inaugural Disappearance Studies Conference at the University of Notre Dame. check out the program here: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...

09.09.2025 15:08 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Many congratulations!

23.07.2025 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How I think we need to redefine civilian harm in Gaza.

25.06.2025 17:18 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ideal: Towards an Embrace of Complexity in ‘Victim-Centred’ Transitional Justice

there has been so much good scholarship on victimhood and transitional justice lately - in my review essay for IJTJ, I explore engagement with and interrogation of this 'victims' turn' through recent books from Roxani Krystalli, Cheryl Lawther, and Roddy Brett: academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

20.05.2025 13:34 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Do consider registering for the 15th edition of our @tmcasser.bsky.social and @icct.bsky.social advanced summer programme on terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law!

07.04.2025 19:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Today I’m presenting on my research at the Asser Institute in The Hague alongside @niaolainf.bsky.social and QUB Mitchell Institute colleagues. Lots to think about and some new exciting plans in the pipeline

27.03.2025 12:43 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Research Workshop: Orienting Political Murals in Belfast: Ecology, Audience, and Memory

An event with Professor David Cunningham and Asha Marie Larson-Baldwin (Washington University in St. Louis), 2 April at 1pm

26.03.2025 10:29 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The Importance of Ethical and Shared Remembering - Imagine! Belfast A seminar reflecting on the principles and practice of ethical and shared remembering.
11.03.2025 14:53 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Journal of Disappearance Studies The Journal of Disappearance Studies focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance, but also on its consequences at the more than human levels.

Have you heard about our latest Journal?
The Journal of Disappearance Studies focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
#IRsky #AcademicSky #disappearance @eliseferon.bsky.social

07.03.2025 14:44 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

The very first academic journal focusing on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, co-edited by yours truly, now has a website! If you are working on these issues, please send us your manuscripts

07.03.2025 15:46 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

We are organizing a conference for the launch of the Journal of Disappearance Studies, next Fall at the University of Notre Dame. If you work on enforced disappearances and missing people, please apply, and share the call! Looking forward to seeing you there

06.03.2025 08:57 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 Job alert! Justice Visions is hiring 3 fully funded PhD researchers as part of the new ERC project on "Innovation & Documentation". Check below for details 👇

🔗justicevisions.org/vacancy-three-funded-phd-positions-in-the-domain-of-transitional-justice/
🗓️ Deadline for applications: 5 April 2025

05.03.2025 08:39 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com

28.02.2025 22:45 👍 67667 🔁 19218 💬 1255 📌 1039
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Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be on Mon. 3 March when visiting @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social Postgrad Tiffany Thompson will talk about 'Belfast barricades & burnt out homes: Women navigating street violence & displacement in August 1969' www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory

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