Over two days, some of the world’s leading experts and practitioners will gather in Belfast to discuss the global legacies and implications of enforced disappearance. Hosted the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University, as the first international conference of its kind, The Disappeared: Addressing the Legacies and Challenges of Confronting Human Disappearance will bring together leading voices from the policy sector, academia and world of arts to centre “disappearance studies” as a new core research field in politics, international relations and legal studies and in conflict, violence and peace related programmes.
With the participation of those affected by disappearance, policymakers, practitioners and scholars, the conference will consider historical understandings and experiences alongside new ethical and conceptual frameworks, research agendas and policy responses with the objective of launching Disappearance Studies as a sub-field of policy-relevant research and practice in its own right.
The Event is co-hosted by:
-The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast
- The Clingen Family Center for the Study of Modern Ireland, University of Notre Dame
-The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
-The Global Insecurities Centre, The University of Bristol
-The Centre for the Study of Violence, The University of Bath
Further details can be found on the event's official website.
Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.