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2026 Annual Conference
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2025 Annual Conference
Intergroup Norms after Violent Conflict: Insights from Research and Practice
Getting Armed Groups to Take Responsibility for Past Harms: The Politics of Truth, Apologies and Acknowledgement in Transitional Justice
Speaker: Kieran McEvoy
This paper emerges from an ongoing book length project supported by the Leverhulme Trust. The book draws from extensive fieldwork research conducted in Northern Ireland, Colombia, Peru, Nepal, Guatemala, and Uganda on the role of...
The Effects of Post-Conflict Injustice Gaps on Local Leaders’ Legitimacy: Evidence from Quasi-Experimental Data in lraq
Speaker: Kristen Kao
In post-conflict settings, bringing perpetrators to justice is a key component of re-establishing the rule of law and achieving durable peace. Authorities face the challenge of walking a fine line between under- and over-punishment of...
Blasphemy politics, religious majoritarianism and the possibility of an inclusive identity in Pakistan
Speaker: Farhan Hanif Siddiqi
A deeply disturbing wave of religious majoritarianism is seeping through Pakistani society and its state structure with the blasphemy narrative at its core. As both structural and cultural violence manifest themselves, the...
Our Truths: Violence and the Challenge of a Common Humanity
Speaker: Max Bergholz
In and around the small town of Glina during 1941, Croatian fascists murdered more than 2,000 Serbs. Some they killed inside the town’s Serbian Orthodox Church, which they later demolished.
Unraveling the Supply and Demand for Content that Divides
Outside speaker: Yphtach Lelkes
2024 Annual Conference
Leaders Making Peace: Incentives Towards Post-Conflict Peacebuilding
In the wake of “ethnic” violence and war, when and why do political elites and other key actors promote intergroup peacebuilding? Under what conditions do leaders compromise? What...
