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A Spring Festival of Events 2016 Welcome Institute for the from the Director Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A SPRING FESTIVAL OF EVENTS 2016 WELCOME INSTITUTE FOR THE FROM THE DIRECTOR STUDY OF CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE On behalf of the Institute I am very pleased in the deliberations that resulted in the Good was shot on location, a range of Palestinians to welcome you to our fourth annual Spring Friday Agreement in 1998, a role that Queen’s and Israelis offer diverse views on the conflict Festival of Conflict Transformation. Our University recognised by awarding him an in the midst of which they must live; and Stolen programme for 2016 offers more events than honorary doctorate. Generation Indigenous artist Heather Shearer’s ever, with a broad mix of talks, conversations, exhibition ‘Colours for cultural justice: A journey film, exhibition and discussion that we hope will Conflict transformation, of course, is nurtured of Aboriginal art’ traces the role of art in healing provoke, stimulate and engage. not only by the endeavours of institutional and reconciliation. politics but by the everyday engagements This year we are delighted to host Northern of people in many other walks of life. In this Over the last four years we have built up a Ireland’s First Minister, Arlene Foster MLA, the programme we offer an insight into such work faithful body of supporters whom we look first woman to hold this office as well as the first in ‘Feedback from the Frontlines’, a series of forward to welcoming back in 2016. We also woman to lead her party. We therefore look three informal talks that range from topics such look forward to meeting new faces and if you forward very much to hearing her reflections as ‘trauma teddies’ to negotiating with the have never attended one of our events we around the theme of ‘Women, leadership Taliban, and delivered by those with first-hand warmly encourage you to do so in the hope that and peace-building’. A graduate of Law from field experience of the situations about which you will find something of interest in this year’s Queen’s, it is a pleasure to have the First they speak. programme. Minister return to the university where she first began her political career. Our 2016 Festival offers a distinguished list of national and international speakers from We are also delighted to be able to welcome Australia, the Middle East and the USA who Bertie Ahern who served as Taoiseach of offer their perspectives on reconciliation, A GATEWAY TO Ireland from 1997 to 2008. From a northern hunger strikes and justice after devolution. perspective, one of Bertie Ahern’s most Some of these events are in conference or INTERDISCIPLINARY significant and enduring contributions was to workshop format, while others take the form of Professor Hastings Donnan FBA the peace process and he played a central role film or exhibition. In ‘Image of the Enemy’, which Institute Director RESEARCH 2 3 THURSDAY 5 MAY FRIDAY 6 MAY FEEDBACK FROM MEET THE AUTHOR THE FRONTLINES: POWER PLAY: THE RISE SYRIAN REFUGEES OF MODERN SINN FEIN DR SHELLEY DEANE DEAGLÁN DE BRÉADÚN 12.30pm – 2.00pm 6.00pm – 8.00pm Senate Room, Lanyon Building Old Staff Common Room, Lanyon Building Dr Shelley Deane, Director of Brehon Advisory, College, Shelley has written on the ending Deaglán de Bréadún is a well-known will give a short presentation followed by Q and mending of conflicts, mediation and journalist for the Irish Times and author, & A on her work with refugees fleeing the negotiation, peace agreements, security pacts, who has written perceptively in the past on war in Syria and will outline her involvement factions, paramilitaries and parliamentarians, the Northern Irish peace process. His latest in a number of innovative projects that strive and crime and corruption in states in book is on the rise of modern Sinn Fein. to make a difference to refugee children in transition. She has mediation and institutional The event is an opportunity to meet the particular. She facilitated the creation and transitional reform experience in Iraq, author, who will discuss his book and have publication in English and Arabic of a series of Lebanon, Tunisia, Palestine, Jordan, Turkey, copies for sale. The event is timely, coming illustrated children’s trauma teddy books that Egypt and the UAE. on the back of Sinn Fein’s success in the contextualise the changes to children’s lives Irish General Election and the day after the wrought by war and violence. To date 37,000 The event will begin with a buffet lunch at elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. bilingual books and trauma teddies have been 12.30pm. There will be extensive opportunity to distributed to refugee and vulnerable host discuss the arguments in the book and to community children across the Middle East, How do I book? debate the strengths and weaknesses of the UK, Ireland and Denmark. Please follow this link for Eventbrite: modern Sinn Fein. http://go.qub.ac.uk/FRONTLINES Shelley is a conflict analyst and Visiting To register or reserve your place, Research Fellow in the Institute. A former Places are restricted so early booking please contact Professor John Brewer: Assistant Professor of International Relations is advised. [email protected] and Middle East Politics at Bowdoin 4 5 MONDAY 9 MAY THURSDAY 12 MAY PRISONER HUNGER STRIKERS IN CONVERSATION WITH IN NORTHERN IRELAND AND SUSANNAH TRESILIAN 2.30pm – 4.00pm PALESTINE: EXAMINING THE Old Staff Common Room, Lanyon Building LONG TERM EFFECTS 9.00am – 5.00pm Canada Room / Council Chamber, Lanyon Building Used in severe conditions of political inequity, To register: An afternoon of conversation between hunger strikes have been chosen by prisoners https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/prisoner- Queen’s University Fellow, Dr Fiona Murphy as an extreme and sometimes even desperate hunger-strikes-in-northern-ireland-and-in- and Susannah Tresilian, theatre maker and tool to contest the conditions or the mere fact israelpalestine-tickets-22538870368 founder of Ariadne. Fiona and Susannah will of their incarceration. While putting the strikers’ discuss the origins and evolution of Ariadne life in peril, this course of action aims to raise Point of contact: — a collective of women who make politically awareness, galvanise public support and to Dr Merav Amir and socially engaged theatre in conflict/ bring about changes in policies. [email protected] post-conflict settings. Themes of theatre as a form of healing and reconciliation, gender Most notably, hunger strikes of political and hope will be addressed. Susannah will prisoners appeared in key moments in also read short excerpts from ‘Dear Children’, struggles for independence, both in Northern ‘Sincerely...’, an Ariadne project run by Stages Ireland and in Palestine. By focusing on prisoner Theatre Company in Sri Lanka, interviewing hunger strikes in both regions this one-day people in their eighties around the world event aims to explore this highly contentious about the wisdom they pass on to the youth political tool. This event brings together ex- of today. prisoners from both regions, along with experts, to discuss and raise crucial questions about the To register or reserve your place, political, legal, ethical and medical long-term please contact Dr Fiona Murphy: effects of hunger strike campaigns. [email protected] 6 7 MONDAY 16 MAY WEDNESDAY 18 MAY RANDOMOCRACY: INTERROGATING MASCULINITIES: AN ALTERNATIVE TO INTERSECTIONALITY AS A HEURISTIC DEVICE ELECTIONS AND VOTING DR BAUKJE PRINS, THE HAGUE UNIVERSITY 12.00noon – 2.00pm Room OG. 074, Lanyon Building OF APPLIED SCIENCES, THE NETHERLANDS 4.00pm – 6.30pm TR6 Graduate School Inspired by Donna Haraway’s heartfelt cry that ethnographic research projects conducted This event will show a short animated film we need a theory of differences that breaks in two ‘super-diverse’ schools for middle about randomly selecting citizens to make out of the logics of oppositional binaries or vocational training in the Netherlands. The political decisions. The film briefly describes holy trinities, Baukje Prins takes the concept talk will focus on how different enactments the ideas and findings of a research project of intersectionality as a useful heuristic device of masculinity in class served to challenge on this topic. The specific issue focused on is for doing critical analysis of socio-symbolic hierarchical relationships between students how randomocracy may resolve the difficult relationships. It provides us with a lens to (m/f) from various ethnic and religious question of flag display. Findings from a real take account of the myriad ways in which backgrounds, and how for this purpose world experiment will be reported as well as processes of differentiation, privileging masculinity was alternately linked up with findings regarding citizen and elite attitudes and marginalization along lines of gender, homophobia or a libertine attitude, with being to the idea of introducing randomocracy in sexuality, religion and ethnicity occur. It calls cool or excited in the company of girls, with Northern Ireland. for sensitivity to such processes occurring being a gamer or being street. not only between but also within groups, for The film will be followed by a short talk by awareness that privileged and marginalized To register or reserve your place, Professor John Garry and an open question positions frequently intersect and, last but not please contact Dr Ulrike M Vieten: and answer session. least, requires us to be mindful of the impact [email protected] of institutional and organizational context.
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