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Professor Luke Moffett

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Professor Luke Moffett

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My work focuses on the role of reparations in remedying the consequences of conflict and its place in transitional justice. I am particularly interested in reparations for human rights violations and international crimes, victims’ rights, and land rights. My research involves engaging with victims, affected communities and responsible actors in making amends for the past and co-design and co-produce policy outputs that can find common ground to advance the realisation of issues such as reparations. I am also interested in international humanitarian law and international criminal justice. I have written on the issues of the destruction of cultural property and forced displacement.

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  • l.moffett@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 3459
  • @reparationsni

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in:

  • Reparations
  • Transitional justice
  • Victims’ rights
  • Land, housing and displacement

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded project Reparations, Responsibility and Victimhood in Transitional Societies
  • Lead on amici to international courts
  • Author on reports on a range of issues including displacement in Northern Ireland, reparations in Uganda, South Sudan, Nepal, and the Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace
  • Author of Justice for Victims before the International Criminal Court, Routledge (2014)
  • Co-editor of the Research Handbook on Transitional Justice, Elgar (2017)

Research students

PhD area The Environment-Conflict Nexus: The Weaknesses of the Transitional Justice Regime and its Consequences for Conflict-Induced Environmental Harm 
Name Lydia Millar

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area The subversive victim: Victimhood and sexual and gender-based violence inside non-state armed groups in Columbia
Name Dr Daniela Suarez Vargas
Years of study PhD awarded 2024
   
PhD area The responsibility to protect and the promise of protecting populations 17 years on
Name Dr Sian Fisher
Years of study PhD awarded 2023
   
PhD area Reimagining guarantees of non-recurrence in transitional justice: Lessons from Sri Lanka
Name Dr Nikhil Narayan
Years of study PhD awarded 2023
Current position
Lecturer, School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast
   
PhD area  
Women's experience of incarceration: Gender, power and coping strategies in Chinese female prisons
Name Dr Ao Zhang
Years of study PhD awarded 2018
   
PhD area Between cultural violence and symbolic reparations: The risk and utility of Irish Republican reparative memorials
Name
Dr Padriag Quinn
Years of study
PhD awarded 2022
Current Position
Enquiries Officer, Northern Ireland Civil Service

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  • Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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  • Human Rights Centre
  • Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice 
  • The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice 

 

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