Seminar: Sharing experiences of memory (Recognition) and truth in post-conflict times: Colombia and Northern Ireland

Online Event - 2:00–3:30pm Northern Ireland. 9.00-10.30am Colombia.

Simultaneous translation English-Spanish.

This seminar is a dialogue with the Colombian Truth Commissioner Dr Carlos Martín Beristain and academics on truth and memory as victims’ rights within the context of the Northern Ireland and Colombia’s peace processes.

Participants:

Dr Carlos M. Beristain. Commissioner.

Professor Brandon Hamber, Hume O’Neill Chair, Incore.

Roberta Bacic, Conflict Textiles.

Peter Drury, Representative of the Colombian Truth Commission – UK/Ireland.

Dr Lauren Dempster, Lecturer QUB.

Chair: Professor Siobhan Wills, Director of the Transitional Justice Institute.

Photo credit : Detail of Hornos de Lonquén - Lime kilns of Lonquén, Chilean arpillera, Anonymous, c1980. Photographer Martin Melaugh, © Conflict Textiles

You will be sent the link to join 48 hours before the event begins.