Towards Transitional Justice Conference

This interdisciplinary academic conference considers the ramifications of historical and institutional abuse in the Irish State through a global lens.

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

Following the @JusticeTowards conference at @BostonCollege we are delighted to announce publication of this double special issue of Éire-Ireland. Interdisciplinary essays evaluate the State's response to so-called 'historical' abuse & its ongoing harms: https://t.co/w7XMtmuL8b

[Professor Emilie Pine @emiliepine]

@JusticeTowards has led such an important conversation around restitution and trauma from institutional abuse. It's not easy reading, but this landmark Eire Ireland issue is important.

[vicky conway @drvconway]

This is an insane list of contributors. Too much intellect, thoughtfulness, courage and wit in the one collection

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

c.c. @ACIrishStudies @CAIS_Irish @ISAANZ @BAIrishStudies @e_efaicis @Irish_Lit @aedei_es @SOFEIR2 @TJI_ @ICCLtweet @AmnestyIreland @NWCI @_IHREC

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

Following the @JusticeTowards conference at @BostonCollege we are delighted to announce publication of this double special issue of Éire-Ireland. Interdisciplinary essays evaluate the State's response to so-called 'historical' abuse & its ongoing harms: https://t.co/w7XMtmuL8b

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

c.c. @ococonuts @ellenmcoyne @PatsyMcGarryIT @UnaMullally @Colmogorman @Emer_OToole @JBI_HumanRights @IrelandBoston @BCIrishStudies @BCEnglishDept @BC_ILA @BCDublin @ucddublin @UCDCEPL @UCDPhilosophy @UCDLawOfficial @ucdsociology @nuigalway @NUIGLaw @IrishCentreHR @NUIGIrishStu

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

Guest editors: @Ka_ODonnell @maeveorourke & Jim Smith.

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

3/3 "Thank You" to our fabulous student volunteers, without whom the event just would not have happened. And finally, "Thank You" to Boston College for your support, sponsorship, and for making space for this important conversation to begin. #TTJ18

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

1/3 The organizing committee wants to say "Thank You" to everyone who attended and participated at the Towards Transitional Justice conference (https://t.co/DBdU2yx6zJ) last week. Special thanks to our speakers for sharing their work and pointing a way forward.

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

2/3 Most of all, a huge "Thank You" to the band of resisters who again and again stressed the need for a statutory right to access information as the basis for transforming Ireland.

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

Colm O’Gorman (@colmogorman): “If we don’t use that history to shape who we are now, across all spheres of social and political activity, and if we don’t use that to frame who we want to be. . . we’ve been f*cked up in ways I can’t even believe.” #TTJ18 #TransitionalJustice

[Jacob Blaustein Institute @JBI_HumanRights]

@Colmogorman of @AmnestyIreland says all levels of society knew things in #ireland -from abuse in industrial schools & other institutions & gender-based abuses.People were frightened to speak up.This had to change. It did— and more is still needed. #ttj18 #TTJ18 @JusticeTowards

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

Catriona Crowe: "We’ve got to stop being too sentimental about ourselves as a society" and bring about real change in Ireland. #TTJ18 #TransitionalJustice

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

"We need to urgently change those constitutional and legal structures because they are not working," says @AmnestyIreland's Colm O'Gorman (@Colmogorman). "Let’s get on with it!" #TTJ18 #TransitionalJustice #TransformativeJustice

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

Conall Ó Fátharta (@ococonuts): Access to records can be "everything for a journalist, everything for a historian, and certainly everything for a survivor." #TTJ18 #TruthTelling #EndSecrecy

[Justice for Magdalenes Research @maglaundries]

‘I envision a public archive dedicated to institutions - we need survivors & others involved to be able to freely access all of the information they want.’ - Catriona Crowe #TTJ18

[Justice for Magdalenes Research @maglaundries]

. @maeveorourke kicks off our last panel of the day, a panel discussing why we all have a stake in ensuring that Ireland appropriately acknowledges its past, & moves through this in a survivor-centric way w @Colmogorman, @ococonuts, Mark Steed of JFMR & Catriona Crowe #TTJ18

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

Discussion Session II: Stakeholders in Conversation with moderator Maeve O'Rourke (@maeveorourke), Catriona Crowe, Conall Ó Fátharta (@ococonuts), Colm O'Gorman (@Colmogorman), and Mari Steed (@culchiewoman). #TTJ18 #truthtelling #TransitionalJustice

[Towards Transitional Justice Conference @JusticeTowards]

Claire McGettrick (@cmcgettrick): "Access to information must be the cornerstone of any transition toward justice." #TTJ18 #transitionaljustice #truthtelling #endsecrecy #adoptionrights