At this year’s general conference our standing group sponsored the section ‘Justice on the Move: Space, Place and Contexts for Transitional Justice and Human Rights’. We were allocated 5 panels which we organised along the themes of (1) Justice Displaced: an Exploration of Embodied Experiences of Justice; (2) Historical Memory and Conflicts of the Present; … Section on ‘Justice on the Move: Space, Place and Contexts for Transitional Justice and Human Rights’– 2020 virtual ECPR General Conference

Rationale: This webinar seeks to connect communities of scholars and practitioners working on transitional justice and connected fields. Funded by the Human Rights and Transitional Justice standing group of the European Consortium for Political Research it is co-hosted by the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. The primary aims of the webinar … Webinar with Mr. Fabian Salvioli, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence

The ECPR Standing Group on Transitional Justice and Human Rights will be organising a Section on ‘Transitional Justice and Other Fields: The Intersection of Concepts, Theories and Empirics’, at the 2016 ECPR General Conference in Prague. The Convenors are now welcoming Panels and Papers which explore the ways in which transitional justice intersects with connected … Call for Papers: ECPR General Conference in Prague

At the ECPR general conference in Montreal, the ECPR Standing Group on Transitional Justice and Human Rights organised a section on “Good Governance through Transitional Justice”. Transitional justice policies explicitly aim to (re)-build good governance and democratic institutions in contexts of transition. However, little research has been done in drawing the link between transitional justice … Section on ‘Good Governance through Transitional Justice?‘ –2015 ECPR General Conference in Montreal, Canada.

Following our annual business meeting at the 2015 ECPR General Conference in Montreal, a new Steering Committee has been formed for the Standing Group on Human Rights and Transitional Justice. Both Anja Mihr and Stefan Engert have stepped down after three years of committed work as co-convenors and co-founders of the Standing Group. Carlos Fernández … New Steering Committee

Fordham University, New York City, 13 – 15 June 2016 5th joint conference, organized by: Human Rights Section, International Studies Association (ISA) Human Rights Section, American Political Science Association (APSA) Human Rights Research Committee, International Political Science Association (IPSA) ECPR Standing Group on Human Rights and Transitional Justice In association with the Academic Council on … CfP: Human Rights in an Age of Ambiguity

Last chance to organise a Section at the Graduate Student Conference, University of Tartu, 10-13 July 2016. The online proposal system closes at midnight tonight. For further information please read the guidelines or contact graduateconference@ecpr.eu

16-18 June 2014, at Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey The ECPR Standing Group on Transitional Justice and Human Rights, in collaboration with ISA, IPSA, ECPR and APSA organised this third joint human rights conference on Human Rights and Change. Click here to read the report.

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We are happy to conform, that our Executive Committee and Convenors of the Standing Group on Human Rights and Transitional Justice has expanded after the Bordeaux conference. Julie Bernath will be the third Convenor and will act as the contact for early stage researchers.