Transitional Justice for and by Children and Childhoods

Organizers:

 

Thursday October 26^th

9h15: Welcome: Kirsten Fisher and Caitlin Mollica

9h30 – 1045:

Panel 1: Children and Childhoods in Transitional Justice: Setting the Scene

Chaired by Kirsten Fisher

Caitlin Mollica, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Business School, Newcastle University, Conceptualizing the Subjecthood of Children in Transitional Justice

Julia Paulson, Dean of Education, University of Saskatchewan, The State of Research in Education and Transitional Justice

Mark Drumbl, Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University, Children and Transitional Justice: From Where We Have Come

Short Break: 10h45 – 11h00

11h00 – 12h30:   

Panel 2: Children, Transitional Justice, Memory and Performative Expression 

Chaired by Colleen Bell, Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan

Marshall Beier*, Professor, Political Science, Children Subjecthood and Being in Public Memory

Jeannette Rodgers, Post-doctoral Scholar, King’s College London & Debby Karemera*, Rwanda, The Hear What They Must Hear From Us, In Our Words, Not What They Imagine They Hear from Us: Child Participation, the Creative Arts, and Transitional Justice in Rwanda.

Cadhla O’Sullivan*, Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Artisans of Peace: A qualitative analysis of a performing arts-based intervention for peacebuilding and peacekeeping with children and youth in Colombia

Julian D. Bermeo*, Doctoral Candidate, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Deusto, School Museums of Memory: Spaces where children can be historical players.

 

Lunch Break: 12h30 – 13h30

 

13h30- 15h00

Panel 3: Constructions of Childhood in Transitional Justice: Frameworks and Influences

Chaired by Mark Drumbl, Professor, Washington and Lee University

Caitlin Biddolph*, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gender and Global Governance, University of Sydney, Queering Childhood in Global Transitional Justice

Ana Alonso*, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, and Kate Macfarlane, Charles Darwin University, Childhood in Nepal and Peru: Victimhood, Political Moments, and Transitional Justice

Kirsten Fisher, Associate Professor, University of Saskatchewan, Former child soldiers, persistent conceptions of childhood, and the long road of transitional justice in Uganda

Bonny Ibhawoh*, Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights, McMaster University, and Adebisi Alade*, Assistant Professor, University of Victoria, Childhood and Transitional Justice in Africa 

 

Short Break: 15h00 – 15h15

15h15 – 16h30

Panel 4: Writing for Settler Courts: The Role of Childhood and Intergenerational Trauma in the Writing of Gladue Reports.

Chaired by Jamesy Patrick, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Saskatchewan  

Michelle Stewart, WGST, University of Regina

Robyn Pitawanakwat, Integrated Justice Program, University of Regina

Elisabeth Girard, Integrated Justice Program, University of Regina

Rouhullah Mohammadi, Integrated Justice Program, University of Regina

 

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Friday October 27^th

9h30- 10h45:

Panel 1:  Transitional Justice and Intergenerational Experiences

Chaired by Simonne Horwitz, Associate Professor, History, University of Saskatchewan

Jesse Mugero*, Program Associate, International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), Uganda, An Analysis of the Transitional Justice Response to the Phenomenon of Children Born as a Result of Conflict Related Sexual Violence in Uganda.

Barbora Hola, Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam, TJ and Intergenerational Effects on Children in Rwanda.

Mark Kersten, Assistant Professor, Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of the Fraser Valley, Atrocities Against Children in Settler Contexts: What, If Anything, Does Transitional Justice Tell Us?

 

Short Break: 10h45 – 11h00

11h00- 12h30:

Panel 2: Trauma, the Law, and Children’s TJ

Chaired by Caitlin Mollica

Lise Milne, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Regina, Early Childhood Development, Trauma, and Rights-based Approaches for Children

Jamesy Patrick, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Saskatchewan, “Best Interests of the Child Framework” and Decision Making for Children

Muhammad Asadullah, Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies, University of Regina, and Rokon Uddin*, Research Assistant at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden, Rohingya Refugee Children in Bangladesh: An Analysis from a Restorative Justice Lens

 

Lunch Break: 12h30 – 13h30

13h30- 15h15:

Panel 3: Responding to Children’s Experiences through Transitional Justice.

Chaired by Kirsten Fisher

Aziz Saidi* , Professor of Public Law, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco, The Moroccan Experience in Transitional Justice: Achievements and Limitations

Leonzo Barreno, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan, When an Oligarchy and State Treat Citizens as Children: The case of Guatemala

Yadira Lizama-Mue*, Postdoctoral Fellow, Hispanic Studies, Western University, and Juan Luis Suarez*, Professor, Hispanic Studies, Western University, Nurturing Peaceful Futures: Exploring the Interplay of Children and Transitional Justice Mechanisms through Peace Agreements

Yousra Hasona*, Doctoral Candidate, Durban University of Technology, Transitional Justice and Children in Iraq

 

15h15 – 15h30

Concluding remarks.  Kirsten Fisher and Caitlin Mollica

 

 * denotes remote participation