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Please join the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution to an event to remember and reflect on genocide around the world. By exploring themes such as the current framing on genocide and its legal impact,the post conflict trauma healing processes and perpetrators reintegrating into the society, and finally, the generational trauma and identity crisis in post-genocide society, this event aims to explore the complex mechanisms that are put in place when an atrocity is defined as a genocide.
Monday, April 4th
11:30am - 1:00pm
Metropolitan Building room 5183
Discussion Panelists:
Leslie Dwyer is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Conflict at S-CAR. She joined the faculty of S-CAR in 2009. She is a cultural anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Princeton University whose academic expertise focuses on issues of violence, gender, post-conflict social life, transitional justice, and the politics of memory and identity. Her current research, which has been supported by grants from the MacArthur Foundation, the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation and the United States Institute of Peace, is an ethnographic study of the aftermath of political violence in Indonesia, where she has worked for over 20 years.
Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Ph.D., is Fellow of Peacemaking Practice and Director of the Genocide Prevention Program. An expert on genocide and international law, he comes to the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution from the Rutgers University Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, where he served as the Director of Outreach (2007-2009), co-led genocide prevention projects for the Democratic Republic of Congo (2012-2013), conducted ethnographic research in Cambodia in connection to reconciliation and the Khmer Rouge Genocide Tribunal (2010), and conducted in-country research on political violence and reconciliation in Argentina (2009). Previously, Irvin-Erickson has worked in Phnom Penh in relation to the Khmer Rouge genocide and ongoing issues of justice and reconciliation.
Claudine Kuradusenge is a PhD student at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, studying Trauma as a form of identity formation, competing narratives, and Diasporic consciousness. Her upbringing, being a Rwandan genocide survivor, has led her to believe that non-violence activism and political participation are important ways to reconstruct the self and the other. Her academic research has focused on both the social activism of diaspora communities, particularly the Rwandan Hutu Disporic communities, and the concept of Black consciousness in the US and Brazil. Her professional career has led her to work with refugee resettlements agencies and three NGOs based in the DVM and Belgium, Pan-Africanist organizations, trauma healing initiatives, traumatized youth, international students, and Conflict Resolution institutions.