Dr Cathal McCall, a Senior Fellow within the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, is putting together a seminar series on working papers.

These seminars will take place on various dates starting from Wednesday 13th November to Wednesday 11th December, the dates and times are specified in the flyer here.

For more information please contact Dr Cathal McCall (c.mccall@qub.ac.uk).

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This conference will explore the importance of space and the processes of shaping it within divided contexts (both our own and others) and the role that spatial practice (the work of planners, architects, urban designers) plays in that. International academic and practitioner guests from Israel, Palestine and the Balkans will speak about their own contexts and experiences, and local community members will share stories of recent grass-roots initiatives within interfaces and contested spaces in Belfast.

The intention is to share, discuss and critique existing models of planning and designing space, and potential alternatives, in an informal, participative format which will consist of a mixture of focus- group workshops and whole-group discussions. Anyone who is interested or involved in these issues is warmly invited to attend.

If you have further queries, please contact the conference organiser: Mrs Samantha Livingstone at (samantha.livingstone@qub.ac.uk)

More information is available from the flyer here

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Friday 20th September 
Queen's University Belfast

This conference will explore the challenges and opportunities facing Northern Ireland as we approach the anniversary of the 1994 paramilitary ceasefires. In doing so, we will provide a rare arena for developing an exchange of research findings and ideas among established, early career and emerging scholars.

The conference is run with two types of forum for facilitating such exchanges. First, six papers from established and early career scholars will be presented in two sessions. The second half of the conference will take the form of four parallel workshop sessions convened by two doctoral students whose research is in this field. More information is available here.

To register: send an email to ctsj@qub.ac.uk with the subject heading ‘20 years after conference’. 

In your email, please give your position (e.g. PhD student), institutional affiliation, a sentence indicating the general topic of your research and your preferred conference workshop(s).

If you have further queries, please contact the conference organisers: Professor Peter Shirlow (p.shirlow@qub.ac.uk)& Dr Katy Hayward (k.hayward@qub.ac.uk).

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The Decade of Centenaries 1911-1921 events, which are supported by the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, will be held across Northern Ireland from Monday 9th September to Saturday 21st September.

These Workshop and Exhibition stands relating to the decade of centenaries are to be held as described in the flyer available here.

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Dr Neil Jarman is a confirmed speaker.

The Bridging Our Community Gap Programme invites you to participate in this International Conflict workshop that will draw on the experiences of practitioners researching and providing practical support in other jurisdictions. This event will enable participants to consider the similarities and differences that occur when emerging from conflict or traumatic loss. After a tour of the iconic Crumlin Road gaol, participants will consider the roles that individuals, communities and states can play in movin on.

RSVP by Friday 23rd August to Maureen Graham, info@conflictresearch@org.uk, Tel: 028 90742682

For more information please see the event flyer here

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Interdisciplinary Research Group - Social Justice and the Divided City

'Borders and Boundaries: The Construction and Transformation of Urban Space'

Workshop of the ‘spatial divisions’ sub-group.

Date:    June 14th 2013
Time:    9am - 4.45pm
Venue: Clifton House
             North Queen Street
             Belfast

For further information please see the event flyer here.

To confirm attendance please contact Milena Komarova, m.komarova@qub.ac.uk

The Social Justice and the Divided City IRG is funded by The Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice.

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The event is organised under the theme of the ‘location of narratives’ and, as such, it will examine how stories are created, imagined, represented and heard. Questions of ownership and authorship will be addressed, as will the ethical implications of storytelling. Speakers will also look at the re-presentation of experiences in the physical environment and how material objects and/or locations trigger specific narratives.

Panels will address themes such as Storytelling & Performance; Imagining Narratives; and The Ethics of Archives, with speakers from a range of organisations including Healing Through Remembering; Theatre of Witness; Kabosh; Northern Ireland Arts Council, and academic institutions. A round-table session will focus on the BBC documentary, The Memory Man, with Peter Heathwood, Alex Bunting and Mike Connolly. Keynote speakers are Dr Alison Jeffers (University of Manchester) and Professor Elizabeth Crooke (University of Ulster).

Lunch, tea and coffee will be provided.

Pre-registration Required - No Attendance Fee
RSVP: performingthepeace@qub.ac.uk by 31 May 2013.

This event celebrates the launch of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen’s University Belfast.
It is organised by the Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Art, Performance and Media in (Post-) Conflict Societies’, which is hosted and funded by the Institute

For full programme details, please click here.

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‘Politics as a Vocation: Re-imagining the Calling of Politics in the 21st Century’ 

Time: 2.00 pm to 3.30 pm
Venue:Canada Room / Council Chamber

Places are limited, so please email ctsj@qub.ac.uk by Friday 24 May to reserve your place.

This event celebrates the launch of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice and is co-hosted by the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy.

For event flyer, please click here.

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‘The Cultural Work of Social Trauma: Holocaust, Nanjing, 9-11’
Chaired by Professor John D. Brewer

Time: 1.00 pm to 3.00 pm
Venue: Old Staff Common Room, Lanyon Bldg

You are warmly invited to join us for this event over wine, soft drinks and canapés.

Places are limited, so please email ctsj@qub.ac.uk by Friday 24 May to reserve your place.

This event celebrates the launch of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice.

The Institute is very grateful to the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work and to the Leverhulme Trust funded ‘Compromise after Conflict’ project for their contributions to this event.

Please click here for event flyer.

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It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce an exciting programme of Institute launch events. Please click here for our full programme.

We look forward to welcoming you over the coming weeks to as many of these events as you are able to attend.

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Please note that the Brown Bag event will be held between 1 and 2pm on Friday 31st May. This will be held in 27 University Square in room 27.101.

Our speaker will be Prof. John Brewer who will speak to the title "Victims, Victim Group Leaders and Ex-Combatants in Northern Ireland: Some Findings from the Compromise after Conflict Research Programme".

The talk will outline the Leverhulme Trust-funded Compromise after Conflict research programme in the Institute and reflect upon some preliminary findings from the Northern Ireland project. John will report on qualitative research on the function and role of victim group leaders and their ambivalent contribution to bridging social capital, explore survey data on the perceptions amongst victims and non-victims of social reintegration policies designed for ex-combatants, and examine the implications of this data for the role of victim group leaders.

Please contact Prof Peter Shirlow for further information, p.shirlow@qub.ac.uk.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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‘Courts and Consociations: Human Rights versus Power-Sharing’

Professor Christopher McCrudden & Professor Brendan O’Leary
With Professors Shane O’Neill, Beverley Milton-Edwards, Yvonne Galligan, David Feldman and Michael Kerr

Time: 4.30 – 7 pm
Venue:Council Chamber / Canada Room

You are warmly invited to join us for this event over wine,soft drinks and canapés.

This event celebrates the launch of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice.

Places are limited, so please email ctsj@qub.ac.uk by Friday 17th May to reserve your place.

Please click here for flyer.

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“The Economics of Conflict Resolution: Northern Ireland and the Clinton Peace Efforts"

This is an invitation only event. All places will be allocated on a first come basis.

If you wish to attend please email Deaglan Coyle (d.p.coyle@qub.ac.uk) by 5^th May 2013. For further details, please click here.

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Professor John Brewer, SSPSW / ISCTSJ ‘The Public Value of the Social Sciences’ and ‘Ex-Combatants, Religion and Peace In Northern Ireland’

Dr Joanne Murphy, Management School ‘Policing For Peace In Northern Ireland’

  

Time: 4.30 pm to 6.30 pm
Venue: IRCEP Building, Level 2. (Please click here for venue location)

With distinguished guests, Professor Monica McWilliams, Mark Durkan MP and Eamonn Mallie

You are warmly invited to join us for this event over a glass of wine, soft drinks and finger buffet.
This event celebrates the launch of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice.

Places are limited, so please email ctsj@qub.ac.uk by Friday 10th May to reserve your place.

For event flyer, please click here.

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The ISCTSJ is pleased to announce the first, in what will be a series, of Brown Bag events.

Brown Bag events are an increasingly common way to bring scholars, students and practitioners together in an informal gathering to explain and support on-going scholarship and research experiences. These events will normally be held over lunchtime and will be linked to a variety of research topics. The term itself comes from the practice of bringing a packed lunch to these events, which adds to the sense of an informal and relaxed environment.

These are generally research exchange events that provide the opportunity for scholars to discuss work in progress that they aim either to publish and/or develop into research bids. They will also include talks from practitioners in conflict transformation and social justice who wish either to share their experiences within the field or disseminate and discuss research findings. Each talk will be around 20 minutes, while the whole event will last a total of one hour.  

Brown bag events are a great opportunity to find out more about what colleagues are researching and they can also provide a platform to bring those together who share similar research and policy ideas. They are an excellent way to build research synergy and alliances.

The first seminar will be held on Friday 26 April between 1-2pm in room  27.101 (1st floor, 27 University Square).  It is entitled The ‘New Cyprus Problem’: Crisis and Cracks on the EU borders and will be led by Dr Barbara Karatsioli. Her abstract is as follows.

Despite the UN intensified efforts for conflict resolution and reunification of the island, the Republic of Cyprus was integrated into the EU in 2004 with a persisting line of division. Politically unstable, it was nonetheless economically prosperous prior to entering the Eurozone, with an annual growth rate of 4.1% between 2004 and 2008. That pattern of growth began to decline after joining the Eurozone, especially after Cypriot banks speculated on titles of the Greek public debt. Like the Irish case, the banking debt (which is in the case of Cyprus three times the country’s GDP) became a public debt issue. By focusing on the current crisis/crisis management of the “new Cyprus problem”, I point to the cracks within both the Cypriot and the EU economic political programmes. I will show how the crisis in Cyprus is the symptom of a profound European crisis which has begun to challenge EU economic and enlargement politics.

If you wish to attend this event or would like to offer a talk in support of this initiative, please email Professor Peter Shirlow at p.shirlow@qub.ac.uk

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1 ^st Harri Holkeri Lecture by President Martti Ahtisaari and formal launch of the Institute.  

The theme of the President’s lecture is ‘Egalitarianism in Conflict Resolution’. 

Chair: Professor Tony Gallagher, Pro-Vice Chancellor, QUB

This is an invitation only event.

Martti Ahtisaari is former President of Finland, Nobel Peace Prize winner and a UN mediator.  He is perhaps best known in Ireland for his contribution to the peace process and his role on the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning.   In this event he will outline his experiences of peace-building around the globe and take questions from the audience.

Please click here for full details of the event.

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As part of the Belfast Film Festival at the MAC, ‘We Never Give Up II' is screening on 19th April at 7.30 pm.

This ten year follow-up film tells the stories of Khulumani Support Group members in the Western Cape, South Africa, who suffered multiple atrocities during apartheid.

Please click here for further information or email Prof Cahal McLaughlin for further details.

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This multidisciplinary conference will bring together legal experts, academics, politicians, journalists and grass-roots activists with first-hand experience to ignite debate on the Kurdish question in Turkey.

Please click here for further details.

Further information, please contact Dennis Nejbir or to register, please e-mail your name and affiliation to: queenshrconference@gmail.com

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Wednesday 17 April 2013 ‘Research Impact Events’

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast

Venue: The Whitla Hall

As part of the Faculty event, the Institute will have four poster presentations on display in the Whitla Hall.

• 12.00 - 2.00pm

Researching Truth, Informing Justice: The Work of the Hillsborough Independent Panel.

This keynote address will be delivered by Professor Phil Scraton, School of Law, It will be introduced by the Vice-Chancellor who chose Phil as the winner of the 2013 Impact Prize at Queen’s for his work on the Hillsborough Independent Panel. The lecture will be followed by Q&A. The event will also feature a research showcase involving colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Please click here for further information.

We very much look forward to meeting you!

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Venue: Queen's Drama and Film Centre / QFT, 20 University Square.

Please click here for full colloquium programme.

There is no registration required and all events are free and open to the public.

Speakers and subjects cover a wide range on conflicts and cultures: Johannesburg, Sarajevo, Skopje, Beirut, Berlin, Bilbao, Belfast, Derry, Harare to explore in a comparative context the role visual culture, film, theatre and performance plays in expressing and addressing the post-conflict experiences of different cities and regions.

For further information please contact the project investigators and Dr Des O’Rawe d.orawe@qub.ac.uk and Dr Mark Phelan m.phelan@qub.ac.uk or visit Cities of Memory http://citiesofmemory.org.

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