Department of War
Studies
War Crimes Research Group
The War Crimes Research Group and Gender Studies at King’s invite you to a seminar:
Gender, war and crime: Agency, victimhood and the negotiation
of justice, reintegration and reconciliation
Wednesday 11 May, 1130-1300
War Studies Meeting Room, K6.07
King’s Building, Strand Campus
King’s College London
Speakers:
Dr Olivera Simic (Griffith Law School), ‘Hierarchies of Wartime Sexual Violence’.
Dr Simić is a Senior Lecturer with the Griffith Law School and a Visiting Professor with UN University for
Peace, Costa Rica. Her research engages with transitional justice, international law, gender and crime from
an interdisciplinary perspective. Among her most recent publications are an edited collection, Transitional
Justice and Reconciliation: Lessons from the Balkans (with Martina Fischer), published by Routledge in 2015
and Surviving Peace: A Political Memoir, published by Spinifex in 2014. Dr Simic is currently working on a
monograph, Silenced Victims of Wartime Sexual Violence (Routledge, 2017) and a major new textbook in
transitional justice with a group of experts from around the world (Routledge, 2017).
Dr Rebekka Friedman (King’s College London), ‘Remnants of a Chequered Past: Female Combatants
and the Renegotiation of Agency in Post-War Sri Lanka’.
Dr Friedman is a Lecturer in International Peace and Security in the Department of War Studies. Her
research and teaching are broadly at the intersection of reconciliation, transitional justice, collective
memory, gender and peace-building, especially in protracted social conflicts and divided societies. She has
recently conducted research in Peru, Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka.
Chair:
Dr Rachel Kerr (King’s College London)
Co-sponsored by Gender Studies at King's (SSPP & Law).
Gender Studies at King’s is a network that brings together scholars and students from the Faculty of Social
Science & Public Policy and the Faculty of Law whose research and teaching examines the influence of
gender relations on issues ranging from radicalisation to educational achievement.
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/research/researchgroups/gender-studies/gender-studies-kings.aspx
The War Crimes Research Group (WCRG) brings together researchers and practitioners
across a range of disciplines and encourages a diversity of approaches to the study of war
crimes – understood in the broadest sense – and war. It provides a focal point for worldleading research, workshops and seminars, and also runs a mailing list
(warcrimes@kcl.ac.uk) whose membership includes scholars, practitioners, policy-makers
and others outside King’s.
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