# Annual Conferences ## Upcoming Conferences [### 2026 Annual Conference ](/event/2026-annual-conference?occ_id=0)Dec. 7 - Dec 8, 2026 | All day | The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies In Person The Politics of Institution Building in Conflict-Affected Societies: Insights from Research and Practice More information will be available soon. ![Image of the Doha Skyline](/sites/g/files/omnuum1776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/GSNIC%20Conference%20Header_0.png?h=c4a1abc8&itok=kIBNgHcT) --- ## Past Conferences [### 2025 Annual Conference ](/event/2025-annual-conference?occ_id=0)Sep. 19 - Sep 20, 2025 | 8:00AM - 8:00PM CEST | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina In Person Intergroup Norms after Violent Conflict: Insights from Research and Practice ![Aerial view of Sarajevo](/sites/g/files/omnuum1776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Wikimedia-Sarajevo.jpg?itok=cxo9TaZO) [### Getting Armed Groups to Take Responsibility for Past Harms: The Politics of Truth, Apologies and Acknowledgement in Transitional Justice ](/event/getting-armed-groups-take-responsibility-past-harms-politics-truth-apologies-and?occ_id=0)April 28, 2025 | 12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT In Person **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... ![Lady Justice holding scales](/sites/g/files/omnuum1776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/37.png?h=920929c4&itok=JoEjGYqb) [### The Effects of Post-Conflict Injustice Gaps on Local Leaders’ Legitimacy: Evidence from Quasi-Experimental Data in lraq ](/event/effects-post-conflict-injustice-gaps-local-leaders-legitimacy-evidence-quasi-experimental?occ_id=0)March 24, 2025 | 12:00PM - 1:15PM EDT In Person **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... ![Imagine of Iraq with Flag Design ](/sites/g/files/omnuum1776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/HarvardSites%20Event%20Thumbnails%201920x1536.png?h=914856c7&itok=rSKNL5iT) [### Blasphemy politics, religious majoritarianism and the possibility of an inclusive identity in Pakistan ](/event/blasphemy-politics-religious-majoritarianism-and-possibility-inclusive-identity-pakistan?occ_id=0)March 3, 2025 | 1:15PM - 2:45PM EST In Person **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... ![Flag of Pakistan ](/sites/g/files/omnuum1776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/PAkistan%20FFlag%20.jpg?itok=lnYNWSsf) [### Our Truths: Violence and the Challenge of a Common Humanity ](/event/our-truths-violence-and-challenge-common-humanity?occ_id=0)February 26, 2025 | 4:00PM - 5:30PM EST In Person **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. ![Image of Road in Glina ](/sites/g/files/omnuum1776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-05/Glina%20%281%29.jpg?h=e591fd14&itok=79Aut9fG) [### Does Counter-Terrorism Work? ](/event/does-counter-terrorism-work?occ_id=0)October 23, 2024 | 4:30PM - 5:30PM EDT In Person **Featuring** Richard English ![Man with grey hair, beard, and glasses smiling and wearing a white shirt and dark blazer.](/sites/g/files/omnuum1776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-08/english_richard.jpg?h=afe14f43&itok=VqAiTqb0) [### Unraveling the Supply and Demand for Content that Divides ](/event/unraveling-supply-and-demand-content-divides?occ_id=0)October 15, 2024 | 4:00PM - 5:30PM EDT In Person **Outside speaker:** Yphtach Lelkes event [### 2024 Annual Conference ](/event/2024-annual-conference?occ_id=0)Sep. 20 - Sep 21, 2024 | 1:00PM - 4:00PM IST | The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland In Person **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... ![Ornate brick facade of the main building at Queen's University, Belfast.](/sites/g/files/omnuum1776/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2024-09/QueensUniversity-2-AdobeStock.png?h=51d86e09&itok=Whd2pBUZ)