The Possibilities for Peace and Reconciliation Discussion Group is organized in collaboration between the Western Academy for Advanced Research and the Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction. Our goal is to create a conversation space for graduate students across the Western campus who are interested in topics of peace, reconciliation, and transitional justice.
In times of increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement strategies, 'the border' is everywhere. This session of the Possibilities for Peace and Reconciliation Discussion Group features a film screening of Pamela Yates' documentary Borderland: The Line Within (2024).
How do the Pentagon and CIA influence the production of military entertainment? This session of the Possibilities for Peace and Reconciliation Discussion Group features a film screening of Roger Stahl’s documentary Theaters of War (2022).
How is Spain's "pact of forgetting" still affecting the country, more than four decades after the end of the Franco dictatorship? This session of the Possibilities for Peace and Reconciliation Discussion Group features a film screening of Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar's documentary The Silence of Others (El silencio de los otros, 2018).
Why was the International Criminal Court created and how does it function? This session of the Possibilities for Peace and Reconciliation Discussion Group features a film screening of Barry Stevens' documentary Prosecutor (2010).
How can we rethink transitional justice as a bottom-up approach? This session of the Possibilities for Peace and Reconciliation Discussion Group features a film screening of Christophe Gargot's documentary From Arusha to Arusha (2008).
