CFP: Violence: Legacies of Conflict in Ireland Comhfhios Boston Irish Studies at Boston College Feb 7, 2026, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA All proposals should be 200 - 300 words, for papers 15-20 minutes long. Please submit all proposals by January 5th, 2026. Contact ComhfhiosBC@gmail.com

A huge thank you to everyone who attended last night's CAJ Annual Lecture with PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher, exploring the NCND policy and its impact on legacy investigations. You can now read the full transcript here: caj.org.uk/publications...

CAJ 2025 Annual Lecture: 'Neither Confirm Nor Deny Policy' and Legacy Investigations | Delivered by PSNI Chief Constable, Jon Boutcher - Committee on the Administration of Justice

This year’s CAJ Annual Lecture was delivered by Jon Boutcher, Chief Constable of the PSNI, on the theme of “‘Neither Confirm Nor Deny’ Policy and Legacy Investigations.” The lecture explored the appli...

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What a privilege to be @cajni.bsky.social Annual Lecture delivered by Jon Boutcher, 24hrs after he delivered the landmark Operation Report

Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University. This is open exclusively to scholars of any nationality with a PhD from institutions outside the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Scholars working in any area of Irish Studies are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176805

A proud career moment: on 4 Dec, I will give my inaugural professorial lecture: ‘Through the (Transitional Justice) Looking Glass: Memory, Myth and Contested Victimhood’. 5.30pm - 7.30pm, Canada Room and Council Chamber, QUB. Sign up 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-...

Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Cheryl Lawther

Through the (Transitional Justice) Looking Glass: Unpicking Memory, Myth and Contested Victimhood.

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Really looking forward to discussing my latest book ‘Constructing Victimhood’ @QUBMitchell on 29 Oct, 1pm - 2.30pm. With Legacy back on the agenda, sign up and join this timely conversation: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/constructi...

As Lemkin knew, genocide hides in plain sight. “Genocide is so easy to commit because people don’t want to believe it until after it happens.” Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | ⁦‪@TheTyee‬⁩ thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | The Tyee

The haunting story of the refugee driven to name and prevent the greatest crimes of all.

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The Disappearance Studies Conference opened yesterday and continues today at Notre Dame. The event marks the launch of the Journal of Disappearance Studies — an interdisciplinary platform to examine the phenomenon of disappearance worldwide. @eliseferon.bsky.social @profcheryllawther.bsky.social

🚨 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

The Journal of Disappearance Studies, with the Keough-Naughton Institute and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will hold its inaugural conference Sept. 29-30 at Notre Dame. @eliseferon.bsky.social @simonrobins.bsky.social ▶️ See the full schedule: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...

Disappearance Studies Conference

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Israeli medical staff who treated Palestinian captives in the wake of the October 7 attacks say they are haunted by their experiences.

Israeli doctors reveal their conflicted stories of treating Palestinian prisoners held in notorious ‘black site’ Sde Teiman

Israeli medical staff who treated Palestinian captives in the wake of the October 7 attacks say they are haunted by their experiences.

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happening at the end of the month - the inaugural Disappearance Studies Conference at the University of Notre Dame. check out the program here: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...

Disappearance Studies Conference

Disappearance Studies Conference The Journal of Disappearance Studies, in collaboration with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish…

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How I think we need to redefine civilian harm in Gaza.

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Current measures of #CivilianHarm do not adequately account for the aggregate impacts of protracted armed conflict on civilian populations, exemplified by the war in #Gaza. Fionnuala Ni Aolain offers the concept of cumulative civilian harm as an analytic tool: www.justsecurity.org/115407/cumul...

there has been so much good scholarship on victimhood and transitional justice lately - in my review essay for IJTJ, I explore engagement with and interrogation of this 'victims' turn' through recent books from Roxani Krystalli, Cheryl Lawther, and Roddy Brett: academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ideal: Towards an Embrace of Complexity in ‘Victim-Centred’ Transitional Justice

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Do consider registering for the 15th edition of our @tmcasser.bsky.social and @icct.bsky.social advanced summer programme on terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law!

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Co-organised with ICCT, this edition of our advanced summer programme on terrorism, counter-terrorism, and the rule of law will help you navigate how counter-terrorism measures should adapt to the digital age, and at the same time respect the rule of law and fundamental freedoms.

Today I’m presenting on my research at the Asser Institute in The Hague alongside @niaolainf.bsky.social and QUB Mitchell Institute colleagues. Lots to think about and some new exciting plans in the pipeline

An event with Professor David Cunningham and Asha Marie Larson-Baldwin (Washington University in St. Louis), 2 April at 1pm

Research Workshop: Orienting Political Murals in Belfast: Ecology, Audience, and Memory

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Have you heard about our latest Journal? The Journal of Disappearance Studies focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... #IRsky #AcademicSky #disappearance @eliseferon.bsky.social

Journal of Disappearance Studies

The Journal of Disappearance Studies focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance, but also on its consequences at the more than human levels.

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The very first academic journal focusing on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, co-edited by yours truly, now has a website! If you are working on these issues, please send us your manuscripts

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Have you heard about our latest Journal? The Journal of Disappearance Studies focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou... #IRsky #AcademicSky #disappearance @eliseferon.bsky.social

We are organizing a conference for the launch of the Journal of Disappearance Studies, next Fall at the University of Notre Dame. If you work on enforced disappearances and missing people, please apply, and share the call! Looking forward to seeing you there

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The Journal of Disappearance Studies, with the Keough-Naughton Institute and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will hold its inaugural conference this fall at the University of Notre Dame. We welcome a variety of contributions from all regions and disciplines. go.nd.edu/disappearance

📢 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

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

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Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be on Mon. 3 March when visiting @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social Postgrad Tiffany Thompson will talk about 'Belfast barricades & burnt out homes: Women navigating street violence & displacement in August 1969' www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory

Must watch Channel 4 report on the mass graves in Syria, with over 100,000 dead estimated to be buried in just one site. The challenge to forensically document these sites will be huge. www.channel4.com/news/true-sc...

True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave

His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.

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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

Join us during Human Rights Week for this fascinating and timely talk: Mansoor Adayfi, 'Restoring Justice and Demanding Accountability: Reflections from Guantánamo and Beyond' 12 December 2024 5:00pm - 6:30pm The Moot Court, School of Law, QUB go.qub.ac.uk/Mansoor-Adayfi