🎙️ What an inspiring conversation with Noura Erakat on the limits and possibilities of international law, to rethink it in ways that benefit victim-survivors of gross human rights violations 🔗👇 justicevisions.org/podcast/rethinking-justice-palestine-and-the-limitations-of-international-law/

Rethinking Justice: Palestine and the Limitations of International Law – Justice Visions

In this special episode of Justice Visions, we shift our typical focus on innovations in transitional justice to a broader debate about international law, its shortcomings, and how to rethink it in wa...

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📢 Next Monday I will be talking about my work on State-sponsored historical commissions at the Post-War Memory Seminar at ISPOLE at UCLouvain. Come join us!

New releases alongside classic works of feminist theory and history: all part of our International Women's Day sale

March 8 is International Women's Day

For over a century the world has celebrated International Women's Day to honor women's movements around the globe and to bring attention to the battles still being fought to achieve equality. We're ce...

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📣 If you're in Belgium on March 16, come join the next Assises de l'AfricaMuseum! François Makanga will talk about "Guides and colonial museums, what are the issues? Decolonial mediation or the key to memorial denial"

📢 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

📣Read this excellent paper by Malin Arvidsson! This is an OA online first publication part of mine and Tine Destrooper’s forthcoming special issue on "Historical Truth, Accountability, and Change in the (Post-)Colonial State" 🔗 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642529.2025.2458383

The Swedish Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Tornedalians, Kvens and Lantalaiset: a Commissioner’s perspective

This article discusses the Swedish Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Tornedalians, Kvens and Lantalaiset (operating 2020–2023), with the aim of stimulating further research by relating it to ...

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📣 If you're in Belgium in March, come join us for the Assises de l'AfricaMuseum! Let's talk about the future of the relationship between the diaspora and the museum 🔗 www.africamuseum.be/fr/see_do/ag...

📢 Publication Alert! In this entry, I focus on the often-overlooked intersection between historical commissions and transitional justice explaining why these synergies have been overlooked (1/3) 🔗link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_173-1

Legacies of the Past: When Historical Commissions meet Transitional Justice

Historical commissions are state-sanctioned non-legal, academically grounded, ad hoc bodies of inquiry. These are established to investigate the origins, development, and legacy of historical events a...

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🔗Check out this interactive map I have created featuring the (socio-political) historical commissions that have been the focus of my work. It displays officially sanctioned commissions that operated from 1990 to the present. u.osmfr.org/m/1017449/