Research line 1: Political Crimes, Human Rights and Human Security

Stephan Parmentier
Tel: (+32) (0) 16/32.51.15
Fax: (+32) (0) 16/32.54.63
E-mail: Stephan.Parmentier@law.kuleuven.be
Webpage: Stephan Parmentier

Address:
Herbert Hooverplein 10 - mailbox 3418
Office 02.60 - 3000 Leuven

• Monica Aciru
• Isabella Bueno
• Zoë Cosemans
• Andrea Diaz Rozas
• Danique Gudders
• Ben Heylen
• Luc Huyse
• Letizia Paoli
• Lieven Vandekerckhove
• Estelle Zinsstag

• Rule of Law after War and Crisis.
• Critical Perspectives in Transitional Justice.
• Importing International Law in Post-Conflict States.
• Public Forgiveness in Post-Conflict Contexts.
• Re-Member. Rehabilitation, Reintegration and Reconciliation of War-Affected Children.
• Rethinking Transitions. Equality and Social Justice in Societies Emerging from Conflict
• Third International Seminar “Transitional Justice: an interdisciplinary perspective”
• Academic Freedom as a Fundamental Right
• Thematic National Legal Study on rights of irregular immigrants in voluntary and involuntary return procedures
• Learning in Leuven: at 579 years old, Leuven is the oldest remaining Catholic university in Europe and a hotbed of innovative research, from unborn babies to genocide (interview with Stephan Parmentier)
• International interdisciplinary conference: Rehabilitation and Reintegration of War-Affected Children(RRWAC) - 22 & 23 October 2009
• RRWAC Conference Report
• Seminar on the Legacy of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission with former Commissioner Yasmin Sooka
• The Essentials Course on Transitional Justice: Spotlight on the European Experience
• Research, teaching and consultancyin the field of ‘transitional justice and human rights’
• Repairing the Past? International Perspectives on Reparations for Gross Human Rights Abuses
• Long Road Home. Building Reconciliation and Trust in Post-War Sierra Leone
• New series on transitional justice
• Series on transitional justice
• Making the Transition. International Intervention, State Building and Criminal Justice Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Stones Left Unturned. Law and Transitional Justice in Burundi
• Margins of Conflict. The ECHR and Transitions to and from Armed Conflict

 Political crimes, criminology and human rights

 Transitional justice and strategies for “dealing with the past”

• Mass Victimization and Restorative Justice. In search for the possibilities to apply restorative justice principles in the context of dealing with the past. Case Study South Africa
• Mass victimisation and restorative justice. In search of the position of restorative justice in an integrated approach to mass victimization in post-conflict situations. Case studies in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia
• The dynamic construction of the law of transitional justice: A socio-legal study of the meaning of the Colombian Peace and Justice Law on this process
• Mass Victimization and Restorative Justice in Colombia: Pathways towards Peace and Reconciliation?

 Truth and reconciliation commissions around the world (i.a. South Africa, Guatemala, Bosnia)

 Reparations for victims of international crimes

 Human rights, human security and conflict regulation