Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
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Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) is an inter-disciplinary network of more than 100 Oxford staff and students working broadly on issues of transition in societies recovering from mass conflict and/or repressive rule. OTJR is dedicated to producing high-quality scholarship that connects int...
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Invoking 'Transitional Justice' without a Transition: Reflections on Sri Lanka's Transitional Justice Programme, 2015-2019
Kumaravadivel Guruparan gives a talk as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. In 2015, Sri Lankan witnessed regime...
Kashmir and the State of Exception
Habeel Iqbal gives a talk as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Kashmir is among the oldest unresolved internatio...
Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan: National Mechanisms, Positive Complementarity and Command Responsibility
Douglas Guilfoyle gives a talk as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Following persistent rumours of criminal mi...
The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel and Juridical Warfare
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. In this seminar, Dr Craig Jones discusses his newly pu...
Transitional Justice Through the Lens of Art
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. This panel discussion explores the role of art in trans...
The Justice of Visual Art - Creative State-Building in Times of Transition
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Art is a radical form of political participation in tim...
Political Crimes and Amnesties: Scope and Limitations to Transitions to Democracy
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Amnesties are a very common mechanism in transitions t...
Documenting Crimes in Syria and Iraq: ISIS and the Crimes Against the Yazidis
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Over the last five years, a variety of entities - gover...
Measuring Peace: Local Participation and Perspectives in Peacebuilding
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Peace has been a notoriously difficult concept to measu...
Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace: Are There Reasons for Hope?
This talk was the keynote seminar given as part of the Oxford Translational Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series Hope is generally elusive after a p...
But what about men?: Gender Discomfort in International Criminal Justice
Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) has become 'hyper-visible' in international criminal justice, yet scholars disagree whether this is a good thi...
Current Challenges to International Justice: Lean in or Leave?
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Leila Nadya Sadat is the James Carr Professor of Intern...
Book Launch: The Trial of the Kaiser
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Oxford Transitional Justice Research and the Bonavero I...
Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective: Book Launch of 'Justice framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice'
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Why are certain responses to past human rights violatio...
Un-Becoming a Victim: Between Historic Reminder and Hallucination, Geographical Document and Childhood Memory, Collective Tragedy and Personal Healing
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. To Un-Become is a multimedia art project which explores...
Prospects for Meaningful Accountability for Rights Violations in Sri Lanka
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. This panel discussion explores the issue of accountabil...
Witness Testimony and the Negotiation of 'Culture' at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Scholars reflecting on the participation of African wit...
The Journalist Perspective: Low Expectations and Promising Trends in Transitional Justice
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Thierry Cruvellier, journalist and author, is the edito...
Book Launch 'When Political Transitions Work: Reconciliation as Interdependence'
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. In 'When Political Transitions Work', Fanie du Toit, wh...
Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. In the aftermath of the ‘no’ victory in the Colombian p...
The Arrest of a Head of State Pursuant to an ICC Warrant. The Al-Bashir Case
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Prof Lattanzi’s presentation will first deal with the q...
The ICC Rohingya Case: Radical or Routine?
This talk was given as part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series. Myanmar's mass-atrocities against the Rohingya minority...
International Criminal Law and Border Control: The Expressive Role of the Deportation and Extradition of Rwandan Citizens
Dr Nicola Palmer analyzes the role that international criminal law in the extradition, deportation or domestic prosecution of Rwandan nationals. This...
Amnesties and Inclusive Political Settlements
Amnesties are widely used during and after armed conflicts. Despite their controversial nature, international policymakers such as the UN continue to...
A Glimpse Into Contested Indigenous Peoples' Rights in Peru: The Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women
This study examines Peru's status of indigenous peoples' rights. Specifically, it assesses the state’s respect towards indigenous rights through a ca...
Battling for (In)justice: Resurgent Authoritarianism, Ongoing Conflict, and Transitional Justice in the Arab Region
Transitional justice scholarship and practice has predominantly operated on the assumption that transitions entail a shift from violent, authoritarian...
The Death of the ICC? The Politics of International Criminal Justice in Africa
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is struggling at every level of its operations in Africa - in terms of its investigations, prosecutions, and re...
The Legality of Rebel Courts during Non-International Armed Conflicts
Rebel courts are often justified by rebels in the interest of securing law and order, states’ perceptions are more negative, especially the territoria...
Reparation for Victims of Mass Atrocities: Reflections on Key Challenges
While there is broad consensus that victims of mass atrocities have a right to reparation for harm suffered, the effective implementation of that righ...
Genocide on Trial. Witnessing and Evidence at Rwanda's Gacaca Courts and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Julia Viebach investigates the everyday of witnessing at Rwanda’s Gacaca courts and contrasts its findings with the process of witnessing at the Inter...
Voice, Agency and Responsibility: Victimhood and Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland
Dr. Cheryl Lawther explore the construction and meaning of victimhood in post-conflict Northern Ireland.
European Union and Democratisation: Backsliding in Tow of Unsuccessful Conditionality?
Dr Katarína Sipulova gives a talk for the OTJR seminar series. In the context of the constitutional crises spreading through Hungary, Romania, and Pol...
Book Colloquium; Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia
Gwen Burnyeat discusses her book: 'Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia' wi...
Conflict in a Connected World: Journalism, Justice and Accountability in the Realm of Open Source Information
Eliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat and Brown Moses Blog, speaks on the use of open-source information.
The Mladic Case before the ICTY – an Insider's Perspective
Jonas Nillson speaks on his time working in the ICTY chambers.
'It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti' Film Screening and Discussion
Professor Siobhan Wills discusses the UN Peacekeeping mission in Haiti and her documentary.
The UN in Kosovo: Building the Rule of Law and Respect for Human Rights, a Very Mixed Record
William O'Neill gives an insider perspective into the UN Peacekeeping Missoin in Kosovo.
Travelling Jurisprudence: the Circulation of Legal Reasoning on International Crimes between Europe and Latin America
David Copello, Raluca Grosescu, and Sophie Daviaud give a talk for the OTJR Seminar Series.
Transition(s), Justice and Normality: Everyday experiences from Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
Laura S. Martin (University of Birmingham) gives a talk for the OTJR Seminar Series. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/transitions-justice-and-normality...
Competing Memories: Truth and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Peru
Rebekka Friedman (King’s College London) gives a talk for the OTJR Seminar Series. https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/competing-memories-truth-and-reconc...