Republicanism, Human Rights and the Ending of the Armed Struggle
Professor Kieran McEvoy, School of Law, Queen's University Belfact
- 04 Jun 2015
‘Republicanism, Human Rights and the Ending of the Armed Struggle’
Professor Kieran McEvoy, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast
Date: Monday June 8th
Time: 6-7.30pm
Venue: WW 5 (West Wing Room 5 )
The Quad, U.C.C.
CPD Group Study hours 1.5 available
There is no booking fee for this event. Advance registration is not required.
Biography
Kieran is a Professor of Law and Transitional Justice and stepped down in early 2014 as Director of Research at the School of Law, Queens University Belfast. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and was previously employed in the NGO sector before entering academia in 1995. He has been a visiting professor at New York University, Fordham, Berkeley California, Cambridge, London School of Economics and spent a year as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. He has a long history of human rights and conflict transformation activism. His areas of research interest include transitional justice, truth recovery, amnesties, ex-combatants, victims, human rights, the sociology of the legal profession, penology, restorative justice, comparative legal studies and conflict resolution. He has written or edited six books and over fifty journal articles and scholarly book chapters. He has conducted research on transitional justice in Cambodia, Chile, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Uganda, Israel/Palestine, Colombia, South Africa, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, Italy as well as Northern Ireland and the Republic.
Kieran is currently leading two major research projects:
Lawyers, Conflict & Transition: An international research project exploring the role of lawyers before, during and after situations of repression and violent conflict - Please click here to read more on the ESRC funded project and to view Professor McEvoy’s video introducing the project.
Amnesties, Prosecution & the Public Interest: This project explores the relationship between amnesties (or amnesty-like measures), historical prosecutions, truth recovery and other ‘dealing with the past’ initiatives in the Northern Ireland transition - Please click here to read more on the AHRC funded project and to view Professor McEvoy's video introducing the project.
