Introduction

Living through Violence: Transitional Justice Considers Everyday Memory Practices and Performances of Social Repair

A Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Exploratory Workshop

The workshop is designed to bring together leading UBC and international experts to examine the ways victims and survivors of gross atrocities renew their lives and relations to each other in the context of the everyday.  Three research areas to be addressed in the workshop include: a) the conceptualization of micro-level memory and reconciliation practices and performances of social repair; b) the ways in which micro-level practices intersect with national and international processes of transitional justice and, c) the implications of these insights to the field of transitional justice.

The workshop will contribute to the theoretical and substantive advancement of an emerging area in the field of transitional justice (the study of how societies move on after periods of oppression and violence), leading to the publication of a Special Issue on the topic in the International Journal for Transitional Justice, a highly ranked and the leading journal in the field. The workshop’s public event will facilitate awareness of transitional justice research at UBC, including the work of the Transitional Justice Network at the Liu Institute for Global Issues.  Finally, the workshop will lead to the development of a larger grant on the subject to the Peter Wall Institute (Major Thematic Grant) or a SSHRC Partnership Grant.

 

"Living Through Violence: Transitional Justice Considers Everyday Memory Practices and Performances of Social Repair" is a Peter Wall Institute Exploratory Workshop funded by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia awarded to Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Professor, UBC School of Social Work and the Liu Institute for Global Issues.