Past Events
Special Panel Discussion on Guatemala on November 28, 2012
Can there be Peace with Justice after Genocide?
The Guatemalan Army and National Police killed eight unarmed Maya peasants when they opened fire on a peaceful protest organized by 48 Maya K’iche’ communities in Totonicapan on October 4, 2012. More than 35 protesters were wounded and the violent attack on the right to peaceful assembly sent a wave of fear through Guatemala which has yet to come to terms with the 200,000 killed during the genocide in the early 1980s. Can there be peace after genocide? Is it possible to bring perpetrators to justice? This inter-disciplinary panel will explore political participation and rule of law in Guatemala’s fledgling democracy.
- Wednesday, November 28, 2012
- 11:00AM – 2:00PM
- Leonard Lief Library, 2nd Floor - Atrium
Dr. Timothy Smith, Princeton Latin American Studies. Truth-Voting against the Past: Electoral Participation and Political Subjectivity in (Post)War Guatemala
Alexander Aisenstadt, Yale Law School. From Law Books to the History Books: The Role of International and National Courts in Enforcing Human Rights in Guatemala.
Moderated by Dr. Victoria Sanford, Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies
Sexual violence and the transmission of trauma in South Sudan, Central America and the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Tuesday, October 9
- 11:00 AM -1:00 PM
- Leonard Life Library, Atrium – 2nd
Presents: Mike Anastario, PhD
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University
Annual Open Forum for the Lehman Community on October 2, 2012
- 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
- Leonard Life Library, Atrium – 2nd
Free and Open to Lehman Students, Faculty and Staff
Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies Spring 2012 Conference:
Nueva Visión: Latino Politics and the Rights of Migrants in the Americas Co-sponsors: Department of Political Science at Lehman College and CUNY Latino Initiative
Lehman College
East Dining Room
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Time:
2:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Check
out the flier for more details [PDF]
Breaking The Cycle of Violence Addressing The Needs of Central American Immigrants In Mexico
Padre Solalinde
The National Human Rights Committee of Mexico (CNDH) estimates that over 11,000 migrants were kidnapped in Mexico in a six-month period in 2010. Padre Alejandro Solalinde Guerra decided to create a shelter called “Hermanos en el Camino” which provides migrants a brief and safe rest during their journey. As a result of his work, he has faced death threats and other challenges.
Lehman College
East Dining Room
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Time: 6:00 p.m.– 8:00 p.m.
For more information:
alyshia.galvez@lehman.cuny.edu
The Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies at Lehman College, CUNY, cordially invites you to:
Academic Affairs
Center for Human Rights and Peace
Studies
Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies
Leonard Lief
Library
Present
GRANITO: How to Nail a Dictator
Screening and Q&A with Editor Peter Kinoy
[When the Mountains
Tremble and GRANITO]
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Leonard Lief
Library
Fine Arts Classroom 226A
*Seating is limited - you must RSVP to
attend*:
http://granito.eventbrite.com
Dr. Victoria Sanford Interviewed by Spanish National Radio on August 29, 2012
Dr. Victoria Sanford was interviewed by Spanish National Radio about her testimony as an expert witness in the International genocide trial of Guatemalan ex-dictator Efraín Ríos Montt, who is being tried by a Spanish judge for war crimes under international human right laws. Dr. Sanford, a forensic anthropologist and an internationally recognized expert on the Guatemalan Genocide, is the director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies here at Lehman College and a faculty member in the Anthropology Department. See the following link to learn more:
English language broadcast - Victoria Sanford on the Guatemala genocide
New Pathways to Justice: An International Conference to Stop Violence Against Women in Central America
Thursday, April 7, 2011
CONFERENCE: 9:30 a.m. – 5:45 p.m., East Dining Room
RECEPTION: 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Leonard Lief Library
free and open to the public
faculty encouraged to bring their classes
all panels presented bilingually in English and Spanish
Join us on Thursday, April 7th for an international conference addressing the following themes:
♦ Violence Against Women and Impunity in Central America
♦ Crime Scene Investigation: US Forensic Investigators and High-Impact Feminicide Cases in Guatemala
♦ Building Rule of Law One Case at a Time by Promoting Women’s Rights
♦ Strategies for Strengthening Regional Cooperation
And stay for our conference reception featuring photography and poetry.
CONFERENCE 9:30am - 5:45pm, East Dining Room
The conference will offer participants new ways of understanding contemporary violence in Central America and identify ways to stop violence against women, as well as enhance women's participation in strengthening the rule of law, access to justice, and the consolidation of democracy.
Dr. Victoria Sanford,
Executive Director, Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies
Full Conference Program
9:30 – 10:00
Welcome
Dr. Victoria Sanford, Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies
translator: Bertha Hurtado
10:00 – 11:00
Opening Lecture
Jorge Velásquez Durán, Victim Advocate
translator: Carmen Monico
11:00 – 12:30
Panel One: Violence Against Women & Impunity in Central America
América Romualdo, Las Dignas, El Salvador
Iduvina Hernández, SEDEM – Security in Democracy, Guatemala
Dr. María Marvis Jirón, IXCHEN, Nicaragua
Dr. María Virginia Díaz Méndez, Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, Honduras
Commentator: Lisa Davis, MADRE
Chair: Amanda Klasing, Human Rights Watch
translator: Natasha Bannan
1:30 – 3:00
Panel Two: Crime Scene Investigation:
The Experience of US Crime Scene Investigators Working on
a High-impact Feminicide Case in Guatemala
Dr. Heather Walsh-Haney, Florida Gulf Coast University
Dr. Kenneth Cohrn, Forensic Odontologist
Dr. Reinhard Motte, Medical Examiner
Greg Smith, Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement Cold Case Detective
Dr. Alejandro Rodríguez, Secretary for Criminal Policy, Public Prosecutor’s Office, Guatemala
Chair: Shannon Drysdale Walsh
translator: Bertha Hurtado
3:15 – 4:45
Panel Three: From the Frontlines -- Building Rule of Law One Case at
a Time by Promoting Women’s Rights
Norma Cruz, Fundación Sobrevivientes, Guatemala
Rose Mary Madden, Inter-American Institute for Human Rights (IIDH), Costa Rica
Karina Sosa de Lara, Congressional Deputy, El Salvador
Mercedes Ampié Pérez, Office on Women and Children, National Police, Nicaragua
Commentator: Kate Doyle, National Security Archive
Chair: Daniel Rothenberg, CLGA, ASU
translator: Ximena García Bustamante
4:45 – 5:45
Closing Keynote:
Building Rule of Law in Central America
Dr. José Manuel Arroyo Gutiérrez, Supreme Court Judge & Head Magistrate,
Criminal Court, Supreme Court, Costa Rica
translator: Carmen Monico
Conference webcast *live* at www.lehman.edu
RECEPTION 6:00pm - 7:30pm, Leonard Lief Library6:15 – 6:30: Welcome from Lehman College President Ricardo Fernández
6:30 – 7:00: Poetry Reading by Carolina Escobar Sarti
translator: Dr. Nela Navarro
On view during the reception:
“Refugees Even After Death: A Quest for Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation”
A Photography Exhibit by Jonathan “Jonás” Moller
For full conference details, click here [PDF]
For more information on this and other Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies events, please contact us at human.rights@lehman.cuny.edu or visit our website:
www.lehman.edu/human-rights-peace-studies.
Conference co-sponsors: The Asociación Colectivo de Investigaciones Sociales y Laborales; the Center for Law and Global Affairs at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University; the program in Criminal Forensic Studies at the College of Professional Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University; MADRE; the CUNY School of Law International Women’s Rights Clinic; Rutgers University’s Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights; the City College of New York’s MA Program in Latin American Studies; and the Lehman College Leonard Lief Library. This conference is made possible by a grant from the Open Society Institute’s International Women’s Program as well as support from the Lehman College Office of the Provost and Dean of Natural and Social Sciences.
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ABOUT THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND PEACE STUDIES:
The Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies advances social justice and human dignity in an interdisciplinary fashion through active involvement of faculty, students, and community in research and teaching. The Center emphasizes intrinsic linkages between human rights and peace. Not merely the absence of war or conflict, human security necessitates community building, safety, promotion of tolerance, environmental sustainability, expanded life chances, freedom of expression, movement and association, and equal access to resources across gender, ethnic, class, national, and other socio-economic divides.
A Human Rights Framework for Understanding the Immigration Debate
Thursday, February 24, 2011, 11:00 AM
East Dining Hall, Lehman
College
Free and open to the public
This one-day conference on immigration reform and immigrants' rights hopes to draw national attention to the plight of undocumented immigrants. The conference will offer participants new ways of understanding the immigration debate within a larger political historical context.
Keynote:
Dr. Linda Green (University of Arizona) on the landscape of immigration in Arizona and what it means for the rest of the country
Panel:
- Dr. Alfonso Gonzalez (Lehman College) on Latino Politics and the Struggle for Human Rights in the 21st Century
- Dr. Liliana Yanez (CUNY Law School)
- Dr. Miguel Perez (Lehman College) on the “Anchor Baby” debate
Screening of Short Documentary:
"Undocumented College Students and the Dream Act" — directed by Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo (CUNY Graduate Center)
Reception and Reading:
- Dr. Irina Carlota Silber (CCNY M.A. Program in the Study of the Americas) reading from her new book: "Everyday Revolutionaries: Gender, Violence and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador"
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