Campion College presents the 36th annual Nash Memorial Lecture entitled Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation: Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland, and delivered by guest lecturer Kieran McEvoy, PhD. The lecture will take place on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. in the Riffel Auditorium, Campion College, University of Regina (main campus). Admission is free. Complimentary parking is available in lots 3M and 17M.
Using the Northern Ireland experience as a case-study, the lecture will focus on some of the most formidable challenges faced by societies emerging from conflict. Themes addressed will include the role of truth recovery; the closely linked theme of amnesties and immunities in return for such truth recovery; the potential and limitations of prosecuting people for past-related offences; the role of ex-combatants and ex-prisoners; the experience of victimhood and the particular difficulties associated with hierarchies of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ victims; and finally the meaning and potential for real reconciliation and the role of apology and acknowledgment in such contexts.
Dr. McEvoy is a professor of law and transitional justice at Queen’s University in Belfast. His areas of research include restorative justice, truth recovery, amnesties, conflict resolution and human rights. His work on transitional justice has spanned various regions across the globe including Chile, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and Columbia, as well as Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
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