Several important questions will be raised, for example:

• How does pursuing transitional justice during war affect the possibilities to build sustainable peace at war’s end?
• What war crimes can be prosecuted during the conflict, and in what spaces (national/international)?
• What are the strengths and challenges of activist truth-seeking?
• What is silenced in processes that take place during wartime, and why?
• Does ongoing conflict affect the possibility of integrating a gender perspective in transitional justice mechanisms?
• What spaces can be used for testimony and acknowledgement in displacement, and how?
• Why is cultural heritage attacked, and with what consequences?
• Who is considered a perpetrator, and who is considered a victim?
  

Susanne Buckley-Zistel

Susanne Buckley-Zistel is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps University Marburg, Germany. She is a scholar of transitional justice, with expertise in transitional justice theory, gender and transitional justice, memory politics, and peace.

She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the LSE and has held positions at King’s College, London, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and the Free University, Berlin. She is a renowned scholar of transitional justice and has published extensively on the topic.

• Annika Björkdahl | Professor of Political Science at Lund University and a peace and conflict scholar. Her research mainly concerns the legacies of violence in post-conflict societies including everyday experiences of war, women’s testimonies of violence in war and collective memories of violence.
• Anton Liagusha | Academic Director of Memory Studies, Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine. He is an expert in public history, historical narratology, and media communications and studies war documentation in relation to justice, memorialization and oral history.
• Fredrik Wesslau | Chairman of the Board of The Reckoning Project and a Distinguished Policy Fellow at The Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS). Until December 2022, he worked in Kyiv as Deputy Head of the EU Advisory Mission in Ukraine. He has experience from working on accountability for atrocities committed during the war from his work for the UN, EU, and OSCE in Kosovo, South Caucasus, and Sudan/South Sudan.
• Johanna Mannergren | Associate Professor in Peace and Development Research at Södertörn University. She researches post-war peace processes with a focus on the politics of memory and the cultural heritage of conflict, and the lived experience of everyday peace and reconciliation.
• Kari Andén Papadopoulos | Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Stockholm University. Her research broadly concerns the role of news and documentary images and image practices in the social and cultural (re)production of meaning, power, and memory, especially in times of war and crisis.
• Kateryna Busol | Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a research fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. She specialises in international humanitarian, criminal law, transitional justice, gender and conflict-related sexual violence and reparations. As a practitioner, Kateryna has worked with Clooney Foundation for Justice, UN Women, Global Survivors Fund as well as with Global Rights Compliance.
• Milena Chorna | Art historian and founder of the Ukrainian Museum Association. She is an expert of the European Commission-led expert sub-group on safeguarding cultural heritage in Ukraine, an expert on cultural heritage at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and volunteers for the OBMIN Foundation, collecting data on the regional museums at the front/in occupation.
• Nataliya Gumenyuk | Journalist, author and documentary filmmaker who co-founded the Reckoning Project, the civil society organization that documents war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine. She is the CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab.
• Olivera Simić | Associate Professor with the Griffith Law School, Australia. Her research is in the field of transitional justice, international law, gender and crime, with a focus on the perpetration of war crimes in the region of former Yugoslavia.
• Said Mahmoudi | Professor emeritus of international law at Stockholm University. He is an expert, among other things, on international organisations, state immunity and the international use of force.
  

• 9.30-9.45 Introduction, Welcome Remarks
  • Johanna Mannergren (conference organiser) | Associate Professor, Södertörn University
  • Anna Maria Jönsson | Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Södertörn University
• 9.45-10.15 Opening Keynote:
  • Susanne Buckley-Zistel | The Past, Present and Future of Transitional Justice in Times of Uncertainty
  
• 10.15 - 11.15 Possibilities of Prosecution
  • Fredrik Wesslau | Seeking Justice for War Crimes in Ukraine
  • Said Mahmoudi | What can the world do? Limits and possibilities of international law
• 11.15 -11.30 Break
• 11.30-12.45 Dangerous Truth-Seeking
  • Nataliya Gumenyuk (online) | Documenting war crimes in the midst of violence
  • Anton Liagusha (online) | Memorialisation, memory politics and war documentation
  • Kari Andén Papadopoulos | Everyone is a witness: new digital technologies and human rights practice
• 12.45-13.45 Lunch
• 13.45-15.00 Gender & Transitional Justice
  • Annika Björkdahl | Transitional justice and transformations towards gender-just peace
  • Kateryna Busol (online) | Addressing gender-based violence in the aggression against Ukraine
  • Olivera Simic | Bosnian women’s long struggle for post-war justice
• 15.00 -16.00 Cultural Heritage in War and Peace
  • Milena Chorna | Museums and cultural heritage: targets of war
  • Johanna Mannergren | Remnants of war. Cultural heritage of conflict and peacebuilding