We want to thank you for coming to our annual Humanitarian Conference this past Friday.
Winter and finals are coming: reach out if you have any questions, comments or doubts. The HRHP team is here, OSA and their wellness resources are there.
Congratulations to all of you who won positions at the different student groups and SIPASA!
We want to wish you all a happy and peaceful Thanksgiving!! We hope you enjoy the days off and come back all charged with good energy for the finals to come.
Registration is required for all participants and attendees. Please note that registration is free, and it does not guarantee you a seat! The full schedule and conference program will be posted here.
Prevention activism—that is, the effort to record, acknowledge, address and redress the violent past— seeks to counter nationalist myths and identities that are central ingredients of ethnic and political violence. Its goal is to deny the propensity for the future escalation of violence by acknowledging the role that the misuse of history has played in dividing societies. In other words, by enhancing public discussions about the past, prevention activism has become a central part of the efforts in post-conflict societies, as well as in democratic societies, to come to terms with their violent past.
This conference seeks to explore activities that can be defined as “prevention activism”, and their academic analysis. What forms do projects and initiatives take to address past violence, and what impact have they had? These projects often range from civil society initiatives, to government-instated commissions, to the work of international bodies. We are particularly interested in the study of how a specific body has worked to address past violence. Other topics include evaluating the success and failures of such initiatives; exploring the challenges faced by prevention activism; understanding the ways in which pressures, from funding resources to political developments, affect, suppress or inform activism.
Prevention activism and the ways in which it has been implemented on the ground inspired the Mapping Historical Dialogue Project (http://historicaldialogues.org/mhdp/), and papers that take up this resource, or a discussion of the projects mapped therein are also welcome.
The Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network (http://historicaldialogues.org/), which is coordinated by an international Steering Committee, the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, will hold its annual conference on December 12-14, 2019 at the Columbia University in New York City, USA.
Come celebrate the end of the semester with fellow students with children! We'll have food and drinks -- your children are welcome, but not required :)
Professor Elazar Barkan, Director of the Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy Concentration at SIPA, Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights
