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A podcast series from the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) at Ulster University in Northern Ireland, sharing our public lectures and events from key scholars and practitioners. The TJI is a world-leading research institute investigating themes of conflict, transitional justice, human rights, gender and international law. Learn more about our research, public events, taught postgraduate programmes (LLM Human Rights Law and Transitional Justice; LLM Gender, Conflict and Human Rights) and o ...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made historical and contemporary colonial relationships between and within States more salient. This situation is also apparent within the research process itself, adding a new dimension to pre-existing debates on positionality and the politics of knowledge production. With reference to a research project focusing on colon…
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In this Ulster University Public Lecture, Prof Aoife Nolan discusses the role of courts in considering the rights of children and future generations in the context of the urgent global challenge presented by climate change. Children and future generations will bear the burden of environmental decisions made today. However, these non-voting groups c…
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In this webinar PhD researchers and staff at Ulster University discuss what is it like to do a PhD in Law at Ulster. PhD researchers Roua Al-Taweel, Micheál Hearty and Leah Rea discuss why they wanted to do a PhD, their experience of applying to Ulster and their PhD journey to date. Prof Rory O'Connell then discusses the studentship opportunities a…
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In a dawn raid on 18 August 2022, Israeli forces forcibly shut down seven Palestinian human rights groups’ offices. On 26 August 2022, twenty-four UN appointed human rights experts stated that these forced closures, along with other measures ‘restricting the legitimate activities of human rights defenders,’ has resulted in ‘serious infringements of…
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We are pleased to share this recording of a conversation on the future of the European Social Charter (ESC), the main instrument protecting social rights within the Council of Europe, as well as on its relationship to the European Union.The conversation, organised by ANESC (UK and Ireland) featured two interventions. A first intervention by Prof Ao…
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Human Rights Violations in the context of Militarised Policing in Brazil: The Right to Mental Health June 21st 2022 Parallel event to the UN Human Rights Council, organised by the Maranhense Human Rights Society (SMDH), Ulster University (Northern Ireland), and Goiás State University (Brazil). The speakers include three mothers whose children were …
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Ulster University hosted this webinar with Prof. Alison Brysk on Reproductive Rights at Risk: Gender, Religion and Nationalism in Europe and the Americas. About this event After decades of a "rising tide" of liberal modernization, abortion rights are regressing in many societies shaped by nationalism - even as their religious peers continue to lega…
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This event, organised by the Gender, Justice and Security Hub, Ulster University and Queen's University of Belfast, explored the current challenges of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda, including women's exclusion from high level negotiations. This event explored these challenges, including women’s exclusion from high level negotiations around w…
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Join the mother of the girl Ágatha, directors of Agora Eu Quero Gritar and representatives of the OAB-RJ and State Council for Human Rights. Event language: Portuguese (Brazil). The directors of the documentary Agora Eu Quero Gritar (Right Now I Want to Scream, Brazil/Undo Kingdom, 2020), Cahal McLaughlin and Siobhán Wills, invite you to a free web…
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This is a recording of an event organised by the Transitional Justice institute Ulster University and Federal University of Goiás Panellists: Ana Paula Oliveira (Mothers of Manguinhos), Monica Cruz (Justica Global) Ulisses Terto Neto (TJI and UFG), Siobhán Wills (TJI)
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At this TJI public seminar, part of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival, Prof Rachel Rebouché discussed the most recent challenges to reproductive rights in the US. Dean Rebouché shared her thoughts on recent legislation and court cases including cases that are making their way through the court system in the United States, and which may win…
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At this seminar, part of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival, members of the Constitutional Conversations Group discussed the rights and equality commitments that remain outstanding from the Belfast Good Friday Agreement The seminar features a few short presentations from the group on 'Rights & Wrongs' followed by a Q&A session. Presenters i…
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Professor Monica McWilliams was a founding member of the Women’s Coalition, a Member of the Legislative Assembly in Northern Ireland and Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2005-2011), Oversight Commissioner for prison reform in Northern Ireland (2011–2015) and is on the Independent Reporting Commission for the disba…
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TJI was delighted to host this book launch of 'The Law and Practice of Peacekeeping', co-authored by TJI Director Prof Siobhan Wills, Prof Rosa Freedman and Dr Nicholas Lemay-Hebert. This book presents a multidisciplinary analysis of the controversial UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti. The legacy of this mission includes sexual scandals, the excess…
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Ireland has made WPS a key focus of its foreign policy and its tenure on the UN Security Council, including through taking up the role of co-chairing the Independent Experts’ Group (IEG) on WPS. It does so at a time when the dynamics on the Council present clear obstacles to advancing, and protecting progress on, the WPS agenda. This discussion exp…
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The author Prof Rory O'Connell discusses his new book with Prof Conor Gearty (LSE), Prof Ruth Rubio Marin (Sevilla), to mark the launch of 'Law, Democracy and the European Court of Human Rights' (Cambridge 2020). Dr Catherine O'Rourke (TJI) chairs the discussion. The book is available on the Cambridge webpage and Cambridge has provided an Open Acce…
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This final panel of the CEDAW and SOGI workshop addressed some cross-cutting issues (conflict, asylum, hate speech) and included final concluding reflections from Marion Bethel, current CEDAW Committee member. Cross Cutting Issues Lucia Baca (Colombia Diversa) Niels-Erik Hansen (Immigration Lawyer) Kseniya Kirichenko (IGLA-World (International Lesb…
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This panel of the CEDAW and SOGI workshop addressed health and education. Speakers: Alexa Moore (Transgender Northern Ireland) Marisa Hutchinson (International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (Malaysia / Global South)) Mel Duffy (Dublin City University) Chair: Meghan Campbell This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activi…
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This episode continues our workshop on CEDAW and SOGI, with a panel focused on relationships and families. Speakers: Danielle Roberts (HereNI) Imani Kimiri (National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission of Kenya) Chair: Loveday Hodson (Leicester) Women’s enjoyment of the substantive rights guaranteed under CEDAW – legal equality, nationality, ed…
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This workshop sought to explore the current and potential activities of the CEDAW Committee on the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender women. It identified strengths in the CEDAW Committee’s current approach to sexual orientation and gender identity and pinpoint areas for future development. The workshop aimed to make both a theoretic…
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This panel event was co-hosted by the TJI, Christian Aid Ireland and ABColombia. This event explored the upcoming report of the Truth Commission in Colombia, with a focus on two innovative measures within the Colombian transitional justice approach: the role of business in conflict and peacebuilding, and the exclusion of crimes of sexual and gender…
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Specially written histories have become an important tool in Irish state responses to ‘historical’ injustice, particularly those affecting women, their sexual, reproductive and family lives. Whatever form an inquiry takes, a ‘definitive’ history will be at its centre. Sometimes it will be authored by academic historians, though generally in collabo…
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The TJI was delighted to welcome Professor Karen Engle to discuss her important new book: 'The Grip of Sexual Violence: Feminists Interventions in International Law' published by Stanford University Press (2020). The monograph traces three decades of feminist engagement with international law and institutions with a focus on how and why both femini…
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Learn more about the Transitional Justice Institute's taught postgraduate programmes in transitional justice, human rights, gender and conflict. Hear from current and former students. Apply here: https://www.ulster.ac.uk/transitional-justice-institute/study/llm-master-of-laws.
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In this talk, Onur Bakiner provided an overview of the philosophical underpinnings, conceptual frames, and methodological choices informing the scholarship on truth commission impact to examine whether, how, how much, and why truth commissions influence policy, court decisions, and social norms. The findings of empirical scholarship range from part…
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This is the recording of the launch of Dr Catherine O’Rourke’s new monograph, Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law(Cambridge University Press, 2020). This event included comments from Catherine O'Rourke and Christine Bell, and featured a roundtable discussion chaired by Debora Kayembe with the following high-level experts from t…
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In this seminar, Dr. Philipp Schulz talks about his recently launched book 'Male Survivors of Wartime Sexual Violence: Perspectives from Northern Uganda' (University of California Press), based on his doctoral research conducted at the Transitional Justice Institute in Ulster University, Northern Ireland. Although wartime sexual violence against me…
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The Irish Peace and Conflict Network, which includes the TJI, hosted this Panel discussion which explored what success and impact in relation to peace and conflict would look like for Ireland during Ireland's term on the Security Council. It explored the priorities for Security Council action in conflict-affected contexts, and what we can learn fro…
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On 18 February 2020, TJI hosted a workshop Deliberating Constitutional Futures on referendums. The workshop explored the international and comparative dimensions of referendums and included sessions on the international, Irish, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish contexts. On 18 November we launch the report from the workshop and are pleased that th…
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UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security contains more than a dozen mentions of young people; to be precise, it refers twice to “women and children” and thirteen times to “women and girls.” Since the resolution’s adoption twenty years ago, many initiatives have arisen to combat conflict-related harms to children. These inclu…
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This seminar will reflect on the exclusion of women and gender from dominant approaches to dealing with the past in the north. It will discuss a specific intervention to remedy these absences and silences, namely the development of Gender Principles for Dealing with the Legacy of the Past by a network of women drawn from academia, the human rights …
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This seminar was held on 5 June 2020, as part of the TJI/INCORE/Healing Through Remembering online seminar series "Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland: Deepening the Debate". The seminar looks into a number of initiatives and measures aimed at protecting military service personnel from investigation and prosecution currently being considered …
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Prof Siobhan O'Neill, Professor of Mental Health Sciences, Ulster University discusses the “The need for a trauma informed approach to address the conflict's legacy”, in this seminar held on Monday, 18 May 2020. The seminar belongs to the TJI/INCORE/Healing Through Remembering Online Seminar Series on Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland: Deep…
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This seminar was delivered by Dr Adrian Grant on 7 May 2020, as part of the TJI/INCORE/Healing Through Remembering Online Seminar Series on Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland: Deepening the Debate exploring the Stormont House Agreement and dealing with the past in Northern Ireland. Further seminar series details can be viewed at https://www.…
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A roundtable of feminist activists in Belfast reflecting on the local significance of the WPS agenda. The roundtable features Andrée Murphy from Relatives for Justice, Sophie Long from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, and Bronagh Hinds, Independent Consultant. The roundtable belongs to the WPS@20 seminar series hosted by Ulster University Tran…
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Professor Christine Bell, University of Edinburgh, WPS and Peace Agreements, April 29, 2020, 12.30-2.00pm. In this seminar, Professor Bell reflects on the significance of the WPS Agenda at the UN Security Council for peace agreement practice. Drawing on the unique PAX Peace Agreement database (peaceagreements.org), containing 1600+ peace agreements…
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The WPS agenda, as defined by the UN Security Council, has latterly addressed itself more directly to the question of 'engaging men and boys'. This seminar will reflect on this development and its significance. Professor Brandon Hamber is one of the world’s leading scholars on peace and conflict. He is the John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in P…
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This seminar examines the new prominence of women mediators within the WPS agenda, reflecting on reasons for its prominence, and challenges towards integrating WPS and conflict mediation. Dr Catherine Turner is Associate Professor of International Law at Durham University, UK. She is the Deputy Director of the Durham Global Security Institute, wher…
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As attention to conflict-related violence against women has grown in recent years, the need to ensure response to the realities of that violence beyond narrowly confined ideas of ‘rape as a weapon of war’ has become more and more evident. In her new book, ‘Conflict-Related Violence Against Women: Transforming Transition,’ Aisling Swaine examines th…
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UNSCR1325 was the first UN Security Council resolution to draw attention to women and girls during conflict, as well as the first to consider gendered experiences of war. Yet those vulnerable to insecurity and violence because of their sexual orientation or gender identity remain largely neglected by the international peace and security community. …
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