IPR Focal Conference on "Reconciliation, Moral Obligation and Moral Reconstruction in the Wake of Conflict"
Event Photos
Photos by Karolina Lewestam
Friday, March 20 – Saturday March 21
Focal Conference of the 2008/09 IPR Lecture Series
"Justice in Conflict—Justice in Peace"
Conference Location: Boston University Photonics Center, Colloquium Room
8 Saint Mary's Street, Ninth floor
Friday, March 20
1 pm Opening Remarks (Allen Speight, Director, Institute for Philosophy & Religion)
Afternoon Session I (Moderator: Daniel Dahlstrom)
1:15 pm Ajume Wingo "Freedom in the Making of Transitional Justice"
2:15 pm William Long "War and Reconciliation"
3:15–3:30pm break
Afternoon Session II (Moderator: Daniel Star)
3:30pm Alice MacLachlan "The end of 'a sad chapter'? Government Apologies to Indigenous Peoples"
4:30pm Margaret Urban Walker "The Expressive Burden of Reparations: Putting Meaning into Money, Words, and Things"
5:30–6:45pm Wine and cheese reception (Photonics 9th floor)
Saturday, March 21
Morning Session I (Moderator: Nir Eisikovits)
9:00 am Ehud Eiran "Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation: An analytical framework"
10:00 am Anat Biletzki "Peaceless Reconciliation"
Morning Session II (Moderator: David Roochnik)
11:00 am Andrew Bacevich "Moral Obligations in the Global War on Terror: Who Owes What?"
12 noon Nir Eisikovits “Truce!”
1:00–1:45 pm Lunch Break
Afternoon Session I (Moderator: Alice MacLachlan)
2:00 pm Claudia Card "Complicity in Structural Evils"
3:00 pm Abdulaziz Sachedina, "Operative Ethical Principles in Islamic Theory of Conflict Resolution"
3:55-4:10 Break
Afternoon Session II (Moderator: Allen Speight)
4:10 pm Padraig O'Malley, "Iraq: Unjust War, Impossible Reconciliation??"
5:10 pm Roundtable Discussion with All Conference Speakers: "Reconciliation, Moral Repair, Forgiveness: Summarizing Thoughts and
Open Questions" Introduced and moderated by Charles Griswold