Date

March 2-3, 2023

Location

McKenna Hall, University of Notre Dame | Zoom

Advancing Justice and Rights through Courts, Restoration, and Politics

How can the human community respond to acts of trauma and injustice committed by those in power?

 What are the roles of:

  • International courts and other legal mechanisms?
  • Grassroots initiatives focused on health, healing, and well-being?
  • Politics on the international stage?

 

Join the Keough School of Global Affairs as we explore diverse approaches to supporting dignity and integral human development, especially where injustices—both historical and ongoing—cause harm and humiliation. Hear insights from global experts. Learn about approaches that seek to transform traumatized individuals and peoples, bolster institutions, and check the illegitimate uses of state power.

 

A blended conference

We will offer both in-person and online options for engaging with conference content. Join us in person to take advantage of additional networking and learning opportunities during meals and in small-group breakout sessions at the University of Notre Dame’s world-renowned campus.

 

The Keough School of Global Affairs

The University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs responds to the interconnected nature of global challenges by connecting and convening students, researchers, and policymakers from traditionally unrelated fields of study, and by engaging with people on the ground who are suffering, along with stakeholders in government, the private sector, and civil society. We are guided by the principle of integral human development — a positive vision of human flourishing centered on the idea that the dignity of the human person is expressed not only in work and economic activity, but also in cultural richness, artistic creativity, religious belonging, and spiritual practice.

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Schedule

Networking Break

Refreshments served outside McKenna Hall 215-216

Panel: Trauma and Memory

Location: McKenna Hall 205-207
This panel will address diverse perspectives on methods, practices, and tools aimed at promoting restorative and transformative justice (more…)

Networking Break

Refreshments served outside McKenna Hall 215-216

Networking Break

Refreshments served outside McKenna Hall 215-216

Lunch

Networking Break

Refreshments served outside McKenna Hall 215-216

Concurrent Session A: Human Dignity in Europe

Location: McKenna Hall 215-216
The panel will explore key insights into the understanding of human dignity (and humiliation) through decisions of exemplary cases of the European Court of Human Rights. (more…)

Networking Break

Refreshments served outside McKenna Hall 215-216

Speakers

Imani Daud Aboud

President, African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights

Margarette May Macaulay

Former Judge, Inter-American Court of Human Rights

András Sajó

Former Judge, European Court of Human Rights

Charli Carpenter

Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Claire Sugden

Member, Legislative Assembly for East Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Carlos Martín Beristain

Doctor of medicine and psychology

Catherine Panter-Brick

Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs, Yale University

Clifford Bob

Chair of Political Science, Duquesne University

Thomas Weber

Professor of History and International Affairs, University of Aberdeen

G. Marcus Cole

Dean, Notre Dame Law School

R. Scott Appleby

Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs

Colin Barr

Professor of Modern Irish History, University of Notre Dame

Zoltán I. Búzás

Associate Professor of Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs

Josefina Echavarría Álvarez

Director, Peace Accords Matrix, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Francisco J. Urbina

Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School

Kelebogile Zvobgo

Assistant Professor of Government, William & Mary

Diane Desierto

Professor of Law and Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame

Andrés Mejía Acosta

Associate Dean for Policy and Practice, Keough School of Global Affairs

Pablo Saavedra

Executive Secretary, Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Clemens Sedmak

Professor of Social Ethics, Keough School of Global Affairs; Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies

Past Speakers

Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili

Founder-chairperson, School of Politics, Policy, and Governance, Abuja, Nigeria

Ann Pendleton-Jullian

Architect, Professor, and author. ApJ Architects, Ohio State University, Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy

Anne A. Witkowsky

Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, US Dept. of State

Robert Jenkins

Assistant to the Administrator, USAID

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