International academic conference on genocide
From 10 to 14 July, the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona is holding the international conference “Authoritarianism and Genocide: Narratives of Exclusion”. This is the biennial meeting brought by the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which will include around 280 people from nearly forty countries. The opening will take place in the Paranimph of the Historical Building of the UB and will include a speech by Alice Wairimu Nderitu, special advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Prevention of Genocide.
From 10 to 14 July, the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona is holding the international conference “Authoritarianism and Genocide: Narratives of Exclusion”. This is the biennial meeting brought by the International Association of Genocide Scholars, which will include around 280 people from nearly forty countries. The opening will take place in the Paranimph of the Historical Building of the UB and will include a speech by Alice Wairimu Nderitu, special advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Prevention of Genocide.
The sessions of this conference will address the issue of genocide from different perspectives. It will be treated from an educational and cultural perspective, and it will present the prevention possibilities of this phenomenon and specific cases of genocides in different continents will be studied. Among others, there will be speeches on the legislation on genocide, hate speech and collective memory on the holocaust.
The conference includes the participation, besides Wairimu Nderitu, of other distinguished figures, such as the Hungarian attorney defender of human rights Reed Brody, who just published the book How to catch a dictator; Arman Totayan, former Ombudsperson of Armenia and ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights, among others.
Alice Wairimu Nderitu is a distinguished voice within the field of peace consolidation and prevention of violence. She has led, as a mediator and main advisor, the reconciliation processes in the communities of her country (Kenya), as well as processes in other parts of Africa. Also, she served as the commissioner of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission of Kenya (2009-2013) as well as founding member and co-president of the Uwiano Platform for Peace, a network of African women, professionals preventing, transforming and solving violent, ethnic, racial and religious conflicts worldwide.