Roundtable Conversation Restorative Transitional Justice Hearings

A roundtable conversation with: 

• Magistrate Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll (JEP, Colombia), 
• Bernard Duhaime (Special Rapporteur on Truth, Justice and Reparation, United Nations) 
• Luis Carlos Sotelo (director of Concordia’s Acts of Listening Lab), 
• Members of the Consultative Council on Restorative Transitional Justice (Colombia) 
• The artistic team of the performance Call and Response: Who Listens to Cesar (a research-creation project, Concordia University). 
• Agape por Colombia (an NGO working for reconciliation in Colombia) 
• Moderation: Nancy Tapias, The 2023-24 Barry Pashak Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Justice Centre, Concordia University. 

This conversation focuses on how to safely engage the public who attend restorative transitional justice hearings as listeners and active participants in procedures where sensitive and painful narratives by people impacted by violence are shared to contribute to a truth-seeking and collective restorative process.

The Admission of Responsibility Hearings of Colombia´s Special Jurisdiction for Peace will be the case study.

Magistrate Julieta Lemaitre will share insights about the experience of leading such hearings in the context of a case on Hostage Taking, a systematic war crime committed by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia between 1982 and 2012 under her investigation.

In Call and Response: Who Listens to Cesar, The Acts of Listening Lab and The Listening Choir use a documentary theatre technique and choral singing to reconstruct moments of such a hearing to engage the audience as listener-participants.

The director of the project and the artistic team will participate in the conversation to contribute insights from their creative process.

Members of the Colombian Consultative Council on Restorative Transitional Justice visiting Concordia will contribute their expertise. So will Inés Merchand, a founding member of Agape por Colombia, an NGO working towards reconciliation in Colombia. 

Join us 

In person: Seminar Room LB-362 Concordia Library, second floor, 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1M8 

Zoom registration: https://concordia-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvd--sqjIsHdGalcDlcRz-_Vzrns1Rj8W5