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Cheryl Lawther
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Professor of Transitional
Justice @ Queen’s University Belfast. Researching transitional justice, victims, ex-combatants, truth, dealing with the past.
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Global Irish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Notre Dame University. This is open exclusively to scholars of any nationality with a PhD from institutions outside the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. Scholars working in any area of Irish Studies are encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176805
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November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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A proud career moment: on 4 Dec, I will give my inaugural professorial lecture: ‘Through the (Transitional Justice) Looking Glass: Memory, Myth and Contested Victimhood’.

5.30pm - 7.30pm, Canada Room and Council Chamber, QUB.

Sign up 👇

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Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Cheryl Lawther
Through the (Transitional Justice) Looking Glass: Unpicking Memory, Myth and Contested Victimhood.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Really looking forward to discussing my latest book ‘Constructing Victimhood’ @QUBMitchell on 29 Oct, 1pm - 2.30pm.

With Legacy back on the agenda, sign up and join this timely conversation: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/constructi...
October 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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As Lemkin knew, genocide hides in plain sight. “Genocide is so easy to commit because people don’t want to believe it until after it happens.”

Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | ⁦‪@TheTyee‬⁩ thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
Raphael Lemkin Coined the Word Genocide. What Would He Say Today? | The Tyee
The haunting story of the refugee driven to name and prevent the greatest crimes of all.
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October 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The Disappearance Studies Conference opened yesterday and continues today at Notre Dame.

The event marks the launch of the Journal of Disappearance Studies — an interdisciplinary platform to examine the phenomenon of disappearance worldwide.

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September 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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🚨 What happens when #GenderbasedViolence occurs within armed groups and not only against civilians? Join us to examine how #TransitionalJustice processes recognise and respond to this often-overlooked violence.

🗓️ 22 Oct, 2–5 pm BST
📍QUB Moot Court & Online
🔗 Register & info: tinyurl.com/3re4nsj5
September 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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The Journal of Disappearance Studies, with the Keough-Naughton Institute and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will hold its inaugural conference Sept. 29-30 at Notre Dame.

@eliseferon.bsky.social @simonrobins.bsky.social

▶️ See the full schedule: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...
Disappearance Studies Conference
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September 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Israeli medical staff who treated Palestinian captives in the wake of the October 7 attacks say they are haunted by their experiences.
Israeli doctors reveal their conflicted stories of treating Palestinian prisoners held in notorious ‘black site’ Sde Teiman
Israeli medical staff who treated Palestinian captives in the wake of the October 7 attacks say they are haunted by their experiences.
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September 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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happening at the end of the month - the inaugural Disappearance Studies Conference at the University of Notre Dame. check out the program here: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2025/...
Disappearance Studies Conference
Disappearance Studies Conference The Journal of Disappearance Studies, in collaboration with the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish…
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September 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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How I think we need to redefine civilian harm in Gaza.
justsecurity.org Just Security @justsecurity.org · Jun 25
Current measures of #CivilianHarm do not adequately account for the aggregate impacts of protracted armed conflict on civilian populations, exemplified by the war in #Gaza.

Fionnuala Ni Aolain offers the concept of cumulative civilian harm as an analytic tool:

www.justsecurity.org/115407/cumul...
Cumulative Civilian Harm in Gaza: A Gendered View
We need to reconceive of the consequences of violence in Gaza for civilians as composite, aggregate, collective, and layered harms.
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June 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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there has been so much good scholarship on victimhood and transitional justice lately - in my review essay for IJTJ, I explore engagement with and interrogation of this 'victims' turn' through recent books from Roxani Krystalli, Cheryl Lawther, and Roddy Brett: academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ideal: Towards an Embrace of Complexity in ‘Victim-Centred’ Transitional Justice
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May 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Do consider registering for the 15th edition of our @tmcasser.bsky.social and @icct.bsky.social advanced summer programme on terrorism, counter-terrorism and the rule of law!
tmcasser.bsky.social Asser Institute @tmcasser.bsky.social · Apr 7
Co-organised with ICCT, this edition of our advanced summer programme on terrorism, counter-terrorism, and the rule of law will help you navigate how counter-terrorism measures should adapt to the digital age, and at the same time respect the rule of law and fundamental freedoms.
April 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Today I’m presenting on my research at the Asser Institute in The Hague alongside @niaolainf.bsky.social and QUB Mitchell Institute colleagues. Lots to think about and some new exciting plans in the pipeline
March 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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An event with Professor David Cunningham and Asha Marie Larson-Baldwin (Washington University in St. Louis), 2 April at 1pm
Research Workshop: Orienting Political Murals in Belfast: Ecology, Audience, and Memory
www.qub.ac.uk
March 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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The Importance of Ethical and Shared Remembering - Imagine! Belfast
A seminar reflecting on the principles and practice of ethical and shared remembering.
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March 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Have you heard about our latest Journal?
The Journal of Disappearance Studies focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
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Journal of Disappearance Studies
The Journal of Disappearance Studies focuses on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, especially enforced disappearance, but also on its consequences at the more than human levels.
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March 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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The very first academic journal focusing on the collective dimensions of human disappearance, co-edited by yours truly, now has a website! If you are working on these issues, please send us your manuscripts
March 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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We are organizing a conference for the launch of the Journal of Disappearance Studies, next Fall at the University of Notre Dame. If you work on enforced disappearances and missing people, please apply, and share the call! Looking forward to seeing you there
ndirishstudies.bsky.social Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies @ndirishstudies.bsky.social · Mar 5
The Journal of Disappearance Studies, with the Keough-Naughton Institute and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, will hold its inaugural conference this fall at the University of Notre Dame.

We welcome a variety of contributions from all regions and disciplines. go.nd.edu/disappearance
March 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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📢 Job alert! Justice Visions is hiring 3 fully funded PhD researchers as part of the new ERC project on "Innovation & Documentation". Check below for details 👇

🔗justicevisions.org/vacancy-three-funded-phd-positions-in-the-domain-of-transitional-justice/
🗓️ Deadline for applications: 5 April 2025
March 5, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
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February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Our next #IrishStudies seminar will be on Mon. 3 March when visiting @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social Postgrad Tiffany Thompson will talk about 'Belfast barricades & burnt out homes: Women navigating street violence & displacement in August 1969' www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishHistory
February 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Must watch Channel 4 report on the mass graves in Syria, with over 100,000 dead estimated to be buried in just one site. The challenge to forensically document these sites will be huge.
www.channel4.com/news/true-sc...
True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave
His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.
www.channel4.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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Here it is! Delighted to round off 2024 with publication of my new book ‘Constructing Victimhood: Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitional Justice’. Available online now.

Huge thanks to all the direct and indirect contributors who shaped the final book

academic.oup.com/book/58974
December 12, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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Join us during Human Rights Week for this fascinating and timely talk:

Mansoor Adayfi, 'Restoring Justice and Demanding Accountability: Reflections from Guantánamo and Beyond'

12 December 2024
5:00pm - 6:30pm
The Moot Court, School of Law, QUB

go.qub.ac.uk/Mansoor-Adayfi
December 7, 2024 at 1:35 PM