Northeastern Illinois University's 11th Annual Conference on Genocide and Human Rights in Africa and the Diaspora
Healing and Transformation through Agency and Resilience
March 5-7, 2025
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60625
Conference Highlights
The Center for Genocide and Human Rights Research in Africa and the Diaspora will host its 11th annual conference at NEIU on March 5-7, 2025. It will focus on the post-genocide processes of communal regeneration and social transformation. We are interested in exploring what it means to heal from genocide. In 2002, the United Nations Economic and Social Council formalized the Basic Principles for Restorative Justice as a step-by-step plan designed to promote victim-centered healing and accountability. There is a preponderance of literature that has brought attention to the limitations of Truth and Reconciliation processes across a range of post-genocidal and post-conflict societies. Governments may approach the task instrumentally, without acknowledging the historical depth of conditions giving rise to violence. Legal and political institutions may eclipse the experiences of survivors and victims or erase them altogether by silencing memory through intimidation and propaganda, or simply through an eagerness to forget the past and regenerate the economy.
We are currently receiving submissions of critical work from scholars, researchers, and students from various disciplines whose research explores our conference theme. If you would like to submit an abstract for evaluation to make part of this event use the following link.
