
Conference 2024
10/11 June
Queen's University Belfast
The Disappeared
Addressing the Legacies & Challenges of Confronting Human Disappearance
Over two days, many of the world’s leading experts and practitioners gathered in Belfast to discuss the global legacies and implications of enforced disappearance. Hosted by the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University, as the first international conference of its kind, “The Disappeared: Addressing the Legacies and Challenges of Confronting Human Disappearance” brought together leading voices from the policy sector, academia and world of arts to centre “disappearance studies” as a new core research field in politics, international relations and legal studies and in conflict, violence and peace related programmes. With the participation of those affected by disappearance, policymakers, practitioners and scholars, the conference considered historical understandings and experiences alongside new ethical and conceptual frameworks, research agendas and policy responses with the objective of launching Disappearance Studies as a sub-field of policy-relevant research and practice in its own right.
Organising Committee

Roddy Brett
Global Insecurities Centre, University of Bristol

Brad Evans
Director, Centre for the Study of Violence, University of Bath

Josefina Echavarría Alvarez
Director of the Peace Accords Matrix, University of Notre Dame

Richard English
Director, George Mitchell Institute, Queen's University, Belfast

Colin Barr
Director of the Clingen Family Center, University of Notre Dame
Participants


Carlos Beristain
Former truth commissioner on disappearances in Colombia & Mexico

Valerie Rosoux
Director of research
National Fund for Scientific Research, University of Louvain

Roberto Vidal
President of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Colombia

Luz Janeth Forero Martínez
General Director Missing Persons Unit, Colombia

Chantal Meza
Visual Artist, Mexico

Sandra Peake
CEO Wave, Trauma Centre, Belfast

Elizabeth Santander

Elise Feron
Research Fellow, Tampere University

Arely Cruz Santiago
Research fellow, University of Exeter

Maria Clara Galvis Patiño
Professor of Human Rights Law, Universidad Externado de Colombia

Lauren Dempster
Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen's University Belfast

Louisa Mallinder
Deputy Director
George Mitchell Institute, Queen's University, Belfast

Miguel Moctezuma
Minerva Global Security Programme,
University of Oxford

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Warwick

Phil Scraton
Emeritus Professor & advocate, Queen's University Belfast

Nuala Finnegan
Professor & Dean of Studies, University of Cork

Ruth Murray
Lead of Writing Peace Project, University of Oxford

Daniele Rugo
Professor & Film Maker, University of Brunel

Eleanor Williams
Research Fellow
University of Oxford

Leslie Wingender
Director, Peace Programme, Humanity United

Dympna Kerr

Emma Murphy
Post-Doc Researcher, Peace Accords Matrix-Clingen Family Center, Notre Dame

Maria Paula Prada
Research Fellow, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame

Kieran McEvoy
Professor of Law
George Mitchell Institute, Queen's University, Belfast
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