Cira Palli-Aspero, PhD (she/her)

Rethinking Justice: Palestine and the Limitations of International Law – Justice Visions In this special episode of Justice Visions, we shift our typical focus on innovations in transitional justice to a broader debate about international law, its shortcomings, and how to rethink it in wa...

🎙️ What an inspiring conversation with Noura Erakat on the limits and possibilities of international law, to rethink it in ways that benefit victim-survivors of gross human rights violations
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justicevisions.org/podcast/rethinking-justice-palestine-and-the-limitations-of-international-law/

📢 Next Monday I will be talking about my work on State-sponsored historical commissions at the Post-War Memory Seminar at ISPOLE at UCLouvain. Come join us!

March 8 is International Women's Day For over a century the world has celebrated International Women's Day to honor women's movements around the globe and to bring attention to the battles still being fought to achieve equality. We're ce...

New releases alongside classic works of feminist theory and history: all part of our International Women's Day sale

📣 If you're in Belgium on March 16, come join the next Assises de l'AfricaMuseum!
François Makanga will talk about "Guides and colonial museums, what are the issues? Decolonial mediation or the key to memorial denial"

📢 Job alert! Justice Visions is hiring 3 fully funded PhD researchers as part of the new ERC project on "Innovation & Documentation". Check below for details 👇

🔗justicevisions.org/vacancy-three-funded-phd-positions-in-the-domain-of-transitional-justice/
🗓️ Deadline for applications: 5 April 2025

The Swedish Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Tornedalians, Kvens and Lantalaiset: a Commissioner’s perspective This article discusses the Swedish Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Tornedalians, Kvens and Lantalaiset (operating 2020–2023), with the aim of stimulating further research by relating it to ...

📣Read this excellent paper by Malin Arvidsson!
This is an OA online first publication part of mine and Tine Destrooper’s forthcoming special issue on "Historical Truth, Accountability, and Change in the (Post-)Colonial State"

🔗 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13642529.2025.2458383

📣 If you're in Belgium in March, come join us for the Assises de l'AfricaMuseum! Let's talk about the future of the relationship between the diaspora and the museum

🔗 www.africamuseum.be/fr/see_do/ag...

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict Crossing academic, artistic and professional boundaries, this work offers an open space for the rich scholarship in the field of heritage and conflict.

and many thanks to Ihab Saloul and
@BrittBaillie
for their editorial work on "The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict" (3/3)

More info about this exciting and ongoing project here: link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5#affiliations

Many thanks to Nanci Adler for inviting me to contribute to the section on Transitional Justice! (2/3)

Legacies of the Past: When Historical Commissions meet Transitional Justice Historical commissions are state-sanctioned non-legal, academically grounded, ad hoc bodies of inquiry. These are established to investigate the origins, development, and legacy of historical events a...

📢 Publication Alert! In this entry, I focus on the often-overlooked intersection between historical commissions and transitional justice explaining why these synergies have been overlooked (1/3)
🔗link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-61493-5_173-1

🔗Check out this interactive map I have created featuring the (socio-political) historical commissions that have been the focus of my work. It displays officially sanctioned commissions that operated from 1990 to the present.
u.osmfr.org/m/1017449/