Tuesday 21 May 2013 - Formal Launch of the Institute and 1^st Harri Holkeri Lecture by President Martti Ahtisaari. The theme of the President’s lecture is ‘Egalitarianism in Conflict Resolution’. 

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Wednesday 29 May 2013 - ‘Courts and Consociations: Human Rights versus Power-Sharing’.

• Introduction by Professor Shane O’Neill, QUB.
• Speaker, Mr Justice McCloskey, Judge In Residence, School of Law.
• Speaker, Professor David Feldman, University of Cambridge.
• Speaker, Professor Yvonne Galligan, QUB.
• Speaker, Professor Michael Kerr, King’s College London.
• Speaker, Professor Beverley Milton-Edwards, QUB.
• Speaker, Professor Christopher McCrudden, QUB.
• Speaker, Professor Brendan O’Leary, QUB.

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Thursday 30 May 2013 - Professor Harold Koh, 'International Law as Smart Power’.

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A copy of the presentation is available to download here.

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Monday 3 June 2013 - Michael Ignatieff Lecture, ‘Politics as a Vocation: Re-imagining the Calling of Politics in the 21st Century’ 

• Introduction by Professor David Phinnemore.
• Speaker, Michael Ignatieff.

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Wednesday 5 June 2013 – Professor Jeffrey Alexander, ‘The Cultural Work of Social Trauma: Holocaust, Nanjing, 9-11’

• Introduction by Professor John D. Brewer.
• Speaker, Professor Jeffrey Alexander.

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