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Invitation
to the 2015 Distinguished Lecture
The School of Government and International Relations cordially
invites you to the 2015 annual Distinguished Lecture to be presented by Professor Renée
Jeffery on:
The Price of Peace: Justice and Human Rights in Peace Negotiations
Peace always comes at a price, for states and societies, victims and perpetrators, and for
the international community as a whole. Among its most controversial costs are those incurred when states
agree to exchange the pursuit of justice for a permanent cessation of hostilities. Since at least the
time of the ancient Greeks, amnesties providing immunity from prosecution for perpetrators of heinous
crimes have done just this. Employed to entice warring parties to sign peace agreements, to neutralise
potential spoilers, and to usher in new political regimes, they have been seen as an unfortunate but necessary
price to pay for peace.
Despite their long history as instruments of peace, in 1999 the United
Nations announced that it no longer permitted its negotiators to offer amnesties for human rights crimes,
even when the signing of a peace agreement was at stake. In doing so, the UN sought to promote a new approach
to peace negotiations in which the pursuit of justice and respect for human rights were cast, not as obstacles
to peace, but prerequisites for its achievement. This presentation examines the impact of the UN's policy
shift on peace negotiations since 1999. Drawing on contemporary examples from the Asia-Pacific, it provides
an assessment of the costs incurred for post-conflict states trying to rebuild fractured societies, for
victims and perpetrators of violent crimes, and for peace itself.
Date: Tuesday 27 October 2015
Time: 5.30pm: Registration and cocktails, 6.30pm: Lecture commences, 7.30pm: Event
concludes
Venue: The Brisbane Room, Level 1, Brisbane City Hall, Ann Street entrance,
Brisbane
Please register online by Wednesday, 21 October.
I very much look forward
to welcoming you to our Distinguished Lecture.
Yours sincerely,
Professor
Andrew O'Neil
Head of School, School of Government and International Relations
Griffith Business School
Nathan campus, Griffith University,
170 Kessels Road, Nathan QLD
4111, Australia
Phone: +61 7 3735 7393
Fax: +61 7 3735 7737
Email: a.oneil@griffith.edu.au
About Professor Jeffery
Professor Renee
Jeffery is Professor of International Relations in the School of Government and International Relations
at Griffith University. Prior to joining Griffith University she was the Deputy-Director (Research) in
the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies in the College of Asia and the Pacific at
the Australian National University. Professor Jeffery's main research interests lie in the areas of transitional
and post-conflict justice with a special regional focus on the Asia-Pacific. Her work focuses on the various
ways in which states and other actors address past human rights violations, through granting amnesties,
instituting reconciliation processes, offering apologies, awarding reparations, building memorials and
pursuing criminal prosecutions. Her second area of research interest focuses on international relations
theory and international ethics.
For more information please contact Tracee McPate 07 3735
4032 or t.mcpate@griffith.edu.au
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