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About President's FORUM.

The President's FORUM. is a series of monthly convenings in which ACR-GNY President Dr. Nick Pozek invites prominent conflict resolution practitioners and scholars to discuss a broad range of timely topics, including geopolitics, peacebuilding, human rights, and social justice. Past guests and topics have included:
  • Susan Kang, The U.S. Election: Implications for Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
  • Christopher Ankersen, Civil-Military Relations
  • Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Political Economy of the Commons
  • Kieran McEvoy, Apologies in Transitional Justice
  • Dr. Qian Wei, Civic Organizations, Democracy, and Authoritarian Regimes
  • Dr. Olajumoke Ayandele, Political Stability, Development, and Conflict
  • Dr. Waheguru Pal Sidhu, Ukraine and Nuclear Dangers
  • Dr. Mark Lacy, Theorizing Future Conflict

The President's FORUM. series provides a platform for experts to share their insights and perspectives on today’s critical issues. These thought-provoking and informative discussions offer valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities for conflict resolution.

ACR-GNY members may attend the President's FORUM. at no cost, and it is just one of the many benefits of ACR-GNY membership. Learn more and become an ACR-GNY member today!


Upcoming

    • Friday, October 24, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • ZOOM
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    President's FORUM. monthly discussions | timely topics | free for members.

    Stephanie Golob | Post-Conflict Societies and the (Conflictual) Politics of Memory

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    In this talk, Stephanie Golob will discuss the temporal dimension of processes of accountability in post-conflict societies. Specifically, expanding from the limited horizon of “Transitional Justice,” she will examine cases of countries whose conflicts lie many decades in the past, and whose politics of memory remain unresolved and highly conflictual. Why do these “memory wars” emerge and re-emerge, and what kinds of politics are required to provide resolution for victims, their families, and for society overall? Drawing upon over a decade of research on the citizen-led movement exhuming mass graves from the Civil War and Franco dictatorship in Spain, she will discuss the way both national and international law play a role in generating and confronting hegemonic memory regimes that create obstacles to the process of accountability for crimes of an authoritarian past.

    The discussion will be moderated by ACR-GNY President Nick Pozek.

    President's FORUM. is a series of monthly discussions on timely topics in conflict resolution. All President's FORUM. events are free for ACR-GNY members. Join now!

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    Stephanie R. Golob is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Baruch College, CUNY where she teaches courses on globalization, Latin American politics, and transitional justice. She is also Faculty in the Ph.D./M.A. Program in Political Science at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the Founding Director of ISLA-The Initiative for the Study of Latin America, based at Baruch's Weissman School of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarship on the globalization of justice - with a focus on Chile and Spain - has been awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Resident Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the Frank Cass Prize from the journal Democratization. For the past decade, Dr. Golob has participated as a member of an international research team, based at the Spanish National Research Council (CCHS-CSIC), studying the legal and political impact of post-atrocity mass grave exhumations in comparative perspective. Her research on the role of national and international law in the contentious politics of memory in Spain has appeared recently in the volume Memory Laws and Historical Justice: The Politics of Criminalizing the Past (Palgrave, 2022).

    Date: Friday, October 24, 2025
    Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm (Eastern Time)
    Cost: ACR-GNY Members attend for free; Non-members attend for $20 (scholarships available)

    Location: Virtual via ZOOM

    Pre-registration is required.


    Contact us with questions at questions@acrgny.org.

    This program is supported by ACR-GNY's 365 Sponsor:

Association for Conflict Resolution - Greater New York Chapter

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