🧵 1/3 📢 New Policy Paper! I’m delighted to share my latest policy paper: “Rethinking Victimhood: Insights from Colombia’s JEP on Gender-Based Violence within Armed Groups”💡 📄 Read it here: 🔗 🇬🇧 English: tinyurl.com/yck7vf9k 🔗 🇪🇸 Spanish: tinyurl.com/496syaeb

(PDF) Rethinking Victimhood: Insights from Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) on Gender-Based Violence within Armed Groups [Policy Paper]

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Last week, @aislingswaine.bsky.social shared about our @erc.europa.eu project's novel contributions to studying gender-based violence through the phenomenon of ‘coercive control’. Check out the recording now! Thank you @danielasuarezv.bsky.social and Queen's University Belfast for hosting!

Daniela Suárez Vargas@danielasuarezv.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🎥 The recording is now available! If you missed “Behind the Lines: Gender-Based Violence Within Armed Groups and the Politics of Victimhood in Colombia & Northern Ireland”, watch the discussion here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgqt...

🎥 The recording is now available! If you missed “Behind the Lines: Gender-Based Violence Within Armed Groups and the Politics of Victimhood in Colombia & Northern Ireland”, watch the discussion here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgqt...

Behind the Lines: Gender-Based Violence Within Armed Groups & the Politics of Victimhood in Colombia

YouTube video by QUB School of Law

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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

🚨 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

Had a great time at #BISA2025 @mybisa.bsky.social yesterday! Loved sharing a roundtable with Diana Ortega, @itseeefa.bsky.social & Dr Claire Wright on GBV, organised crime & transitional justice in Colombia, Mexico & Northern Ireland 🇨🇴🇲🇽☘️ Always a joy to work with such smart colleagues & friends🫰🏼

Spoke today at the #NarrativeCriminology Symposium at Swansea University, sharing work from my ESRC postdoc on the subversive victim, SGBV inside illegal armed groups and competing narratives of victimhood in Colombia's transitional justice. Grateful for the feedback… and the beach walk after 🌊☀️

Pleased to share this new publication with Libby Newton, in which we explore the Colombian JEP's innovative recognition of territories as victims of the Colombian conflict www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Transitional justice and other-than-human harm: lessons from Colombia

Armed conflicts destroy human lives and livelihoods, wildlife, landscapes and the webs of relationships between these phenomena. Yet, transitional justice practice has remained predominantly anthro...

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We had a productive #ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow Development Programme policy challenge workshop in Birmingham! Our interdisciplinary team representing four universities @jessanderson61.bsky.social @danielasuarezv.bsky.social @vpmlister.bsky.social tackled the needs of homeless domestic abuse victims.

Prof. Tine Destrooper (Ghent Uni) is recruiting three PhD researchers: Three Funded PhD Positions in the Field of #TransitionalJustice “Innovation and documentation. Reconstructing the paradigm of transitional justice from the ground up”. justicevisions.org/vacancy-thre... @atlaswomen.bsky.social

Vacancy: Three Funded PhD Positions in the Field of Transitional Justice – Justice Visions

We are seeking to hire three fully funded PhD researchers as part of the new ERC project “Innovation and documentation. Reconstructing the paradigm of transitional justice from the ground up”. . We ar...

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@qubcriminology.bsky.social the QUB ICCJ Annual Lecture is going to be delivered by Prof Maximo Sozzo (University of Santa Fe, Argentina) “Punishment and Authoritarianism in Latin America: a palimsepstic perspective” 6th March, 4 pm in the Great Hall sign up here: shorturl.at/IodBC

Still time to apply for these great collaborative studentships with hugely supportive supervisory teams

Centre for Children's Rights, QUB@childrensrightsqub.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are pleased to announce 2 exciting funded PhD studentships at the Centre for Children’s Rights. 1. Deaf children and young people’s rights shorturl.at/NL6lt 2. Developing a child-led measure of poverty: see here:https://shorturl.at/lzamB Application deadline for both is 31st March 2025.

#NewBookAlert: Two decades ago, it was believed that hybrid courts would vanish with the ICC's creation. Instead, they have multiplied. Kirsten Ainley & Mark Kersten's new book examines their impact. I contributed a chapter on hybrid investigative mechanisms academic.oup.com/book/59279/c...

Hybrid Investigatory Mechanisms and Other Hybrid Justice Initiatives

AbstractHybrid tribunals have not generally been used in Latin America, with ordinary domestic criminal courts favoured to provide accountability in transi

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My book, The Figure of the Witness in International Criminal Tribunals Memory, Atrocities and Transitional Justice, is now available in paperback - tinyurl.com/wzcjestp

The editors of the Armed Groups and International Law blog kindly invited me to participate in a symposium on the book “Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups Under International Law” by Dr. Olivia Herman. Here is my contribution: www.armedgroups-internationallaw.org/2025/01/27/b...

Armed Groups and International Law - Book Symposium “Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups”: Operationalising the Duty of NSAG to Provide Reparations: Reflections from Colombia

For decades, Colombia has faced an ongoing series of armed conflicts involving a diverse range of non-official armed actors. The legal and public policy landscape of the Colombian state has had to …

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The Morrigan - @joytwemlow.bsky.social, Belén Mattos-Castaneda @danielasuarezv.bsky.social, @anuragdeb.bsky.social & Bethany McShepherd write about their amazing #Barbie workshop Excellent 2 days - thoughtful, #feminist & the craic! #LegalFeminism #Utopias #Manifestos 👇 dflw.ie/feminist-uto...

Our brilliant colleague Kevin Hearty on the autobiographical turn in the criminolgy of war 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽https://academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azae099/7953326

Narrating the Consequences of Conflict: Death, Survival and the ‘Autobiographical Turn’ in the Criminology of War

Abstract. Locating itself within narrative criminological scholarship and the criminology of war literature, this article critically examines how the theme

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Here it is! Delighted to round off 2024 with publication of my new book ‘Constructing Victimhood: Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitional Justice’. Available online now. Huge thanks to all the direct and indirect contributors who shaped the final book academic.oup.com/book/58974

We compiled a starting kit of international organizations, NGOs and associations in the field of international justice and human rights to follow for justice-related news. 👇 go.bsky.app/ScHA5sh

I’m working on a starter pack for those interested in WPS. I’m struggling with the search function on Blue Sky. Please let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/QF29N6Y

aje.io/80lhbf The promises of “never again” made after WWII appears to be forgotten, as war continue to plague humanity in Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine, Yemen, Lebanon and elsewhere, RWI has embarked on a groundbreaking initiative that promises to revolutionise the way we monitor IHL. aje.io/80lhbf

ICMD: A new tool to end impunity for those who violate the rules of war

A new initiative by RWI promises to revolutionise the way compliance with the rules of war is monitored globally.

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Weshalb #IchBinHanna in die Wissenschaft wollte: ❤️Forschung ❤️Lehre Was den Beruf von #IchBinHanna tatsächlich ausmacht: ✅Bewerben ✅Anträge schreiben ✅Existenzängste haben ✅dauernd umziehen/pendeln ✅unbezahlte Überstunden ✅heimlichen Plan B schmieden ❌Forschung ❌Lehre

Last week the JEP unveiled its seventh indictment against the former FARC, the second against its Secretariat and the first for conscription of children. My anaysis of the accusation. www.justiceinfo.net/en/138510-fa...

FARC leadership accused of war crimes over child soldiers

In Colombia, six former FARC leaders have been charged with participating in the recruitment of child soldiers. Following the announcement by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), they indicated t...

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I started a Colombianistas starter pack. I’m sure it will grow! Saludos! go.bsky.app/KY4Vcsb

A working list of researchers, practitioners, and organizations working on transitional justice, please let me know if I missed you or anyone else who should be added! bsky.app/starter-pack... Some overlap with but narrower focus than my other list on humanitarian aid, peacebuilding & development.

Hi Bluesky! With more people here, it’s time to introduce myself: I’m a lawyer & Postdoc researcher working on: - Transitional Justice - Politics of Victimhood - Sexual & Gender-Based Violence - Female Fighters - Int'l Criminal Law - Human Rights - LatAm (esp Colombia 🇨🇴) Excited to connect 🙃

Darién, una emergencia humanitaria. Eliezer Budasoff viajó a un campamento en Panamá donde las historias de miles de migrantes muestran la distancia entre los discursos radicales contra ellos, y la realidad que alimenta esa marcha humana imparable. Escucha: elhilo.audio/podcast/dari...

Are you working on war, Transitional Justice, AI in conflict, or OSINT? Why not apply to present your research on our Armed Conflict, Justice and Law #SLSA Stream in Liverpool in April 2025, the deadline for paper submissions is fast approaching www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-202...