Innovatieve manieren om terrorisme te bestrijden: de rol van overgangsjustitie

• Datum: 27 maart
• Tijd: 09:45 - 17:15
• Locatie: Asser Institute

De conferentie zal ingaan op de vraag of en hoe transitional justice (TJ) kan worden gebruikt als een innovatieve manier om terrorisme te bestrijden door de gevallen in Noord-Ierland en Colombia te analyseren. TJ wordt door de Verenigde Naties gedefinieerd als "het volledige scala aan processen en mechanismen die verband houden met de pogingen van een samenleving om tot overeenstemming te komen met een erfenis van grootschalige misstanden uit het verleden, om verantwoording af te leggen, gerechtigheid te dienen en verzoening te bereiken." Het is gebaseerd op vier pijlers: gerechtigheid, waarheid, herstel en garanties van niet-herhaling, die holistisch moeten worden geïmplementeerd om mensenrechtenschendingen recht te zetten. TJ-benaderingen zijn gericht op het slachtoffer en hebben als doel om herinnering en verzoening binnen een samenleving te bevorderen.

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The objective of this conference is to generate a better understanding of TJ's potential relevance within a counter-terrorism context and raise awareness amongst practitioners, academics, and policymakers on its possible uses in a countering terrorism context. Focusing on the examples of Northern Ireland and Colombia, it aims to analyse what and how TJ mechanisms can contribute to reducing the terrorist threat in the long term, fostering national security, transforming victims and survivors into active counter-terrorism actors, and promoting reconciliation.

The conference will therefore build the necessary bridges between TJ and counter-terrorism. It will convene academic researchers from relevant disciplines and stimulate critical reflections on the interactions and divergences of TJ and counter-terrorism. Additionally, it will engage a multi-stakeholder approach, bringing together scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and civil society and serve as a ground for networking and partnerships for future research.

The one-day conference will take place at T.M.C. Asser Instituut and be co-organised by the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast. It will consist of two panels: one focusing on Colombia and one on Northern Ireland and be complemented by two keynote lectures.

View the full programme of this conference.

Speakers:

Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (Professor of Law, QUB and Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism)

Prof. Richard English (Professor of Politics and Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice, QUB)

Prof. Josefina Echavarría Álvarez (Professor of the Practice and Director of the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM) Program at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame)

Prof. Chris Maccabe (Honorary Professor of Practice of Conflict Resolution at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, QUB)

Prof. Cheryl Lawther (Professor of Law, The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, QUB)

Dr Lina Malagon Diaz (Senior Lecturer in Politics, Human Rights and Gender, UWE Bristol)

Dr Beatriz Mayans Hermida (VU Amsterdam) (TBC)

Moderators:

Dr Niki Siampakou (Researcher, T.M.C. Asser Instituut)

Ms Zsófia Baumann (Junior Researcher, T.M.C. Asser Instituut)

Mr Antonio Guzmán Mutis (Junior Researcher, T.M.C. Asser Instituut)

Scientific organisation comittee:

Dr Niki Siampakou (T.M.C. Asser Instituut)

Dr Christophe Paulussen (T.M.C. Asser Instituut)

Prof. Cheryl Lawther (QUB)

Co-organiser: Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast

Financial contributors:

British Embassy in the Netherlands

KNVIR

Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies of the University of Notre Dame

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