Crises and Transformation first symposium
15 december 2025 13:15 – 15:00
CAT@ORU invites all interested in Crises and Transformation (CAT), where analysing the background factors behind crises is considered as important as examining the crises and transformations themselves, to its first symposium. On December 15th, 2025, we meet at Campus Örebro to listen to and discuss Truth and Reconciliation Processes: The Nordic Model. Do not miss this opportunity to get inspired and challenged.
About the Symposium
The symposium starts at 13:15 and ends at 15:00, during which coffee and cake is served. The symposium is introduced by professor Eleonor Kristoffersson, head of the CAT profile area. A keynote talk is given by professor Jeremy Sarkin on the theme of Truth and Reconciliation Processes: The Nordic Model.
Jeremy Sarkin is Distinguished Research Professor of Law at NOVA University of Lisbon in Portugal. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies, at the University of London, and an Extraordinary Professor of Law in the Department of Public Law, at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has worked in the field of transitional justice for many years after being involved in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission process in South Africa. He has worked on such processes in Uganda, Zimbabwe, the Maldives, Nepal, Burundi, Morocco, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Timor-Leste, Iraq, Bangladesh, Syria, Sudan, to name a few. His proposal for a Mechanism to deal with disappeared and missing persons in Syria was accepted by the UN General Assembly in 2023 and is in the process of being set up by the UN.
He is presently working on crises and transformation issues relating to migration, gender, environmental justice and climate change, drones, genocide, enforced disappearances, music and human rights, and a few others.
In response to the requests by various northern Sámi parliaments to set up so-called truth commissions as one means of addressing systemic discrimination, the Norwegian body was established in 2018, after which the Finnish government agreed to the formation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Sámi in Sweden started their work on a similar structure. On 3 November 2021, the Swedish Government decided that the policies pursued towards the Sami people from a historical perspective and their consequences for the Sami people (dir. 2021:103) should be investigated. The Swedish government appointed a TRC for the Tornedalians, Kvens, and Lantalaiset and a Truth Commission for the Sámi people, both in the context of assimilation policies. Both commissions are a step towards addressing the legacy of human rights violations against the two groups.
Registration and Call for Talks
In the registration form you can also indicate interest for a future oral presentation of a research project or research plan at the next CAT Symposium. A descriptive title is sufficient in the registration form. Priority is given to presentations of multidisciplinary research projects/plans.
Call for Collaborations
External actors interested in collaborating on CAT are welcome to register their interest in the registration form.
Registration
Register no later than December 8th. Register on the link below.