Crises and Transformation first symposium
15 december 2025 13:15 – 15:00
Crises and Transformation (CAT) at Örebro University can finally welcome everyone interested in CAT to its first symposium on Truth and Reconciliation Processes: The Nordic Models. Do not miss the opportunity to be inspired and challenged by engaging talks and discussions.
When and where
On 15 December 2025, from 13:15 to 15:00, we meet at Campus Örebro for an afternoon of reflection and discussion on important societal questions. Coffee and cake will be served. It is also possible to attend digitally via Zoom. Indicate this in the registration form.
About the Symposium
The symposium will be opened by Professor Eleonor Kristoffersson, head of the CAT profile area, and will continue with an enlightening keynote talk by Professor Jeremy Sarkin on the theme Truth and Reconciliation Processes: The Nordic Models. Professor Carola Lingaas, VID Specialized University, Oslo, visiting professor at Örebro University, will deliver her comments.
Jeremy Sarkin brings unparalleled expertise in truth and reconciliation processes worldwide.
Across the Nordic countries, Sámi parliaments have called for truth commissions to address systematic discrimination. Norway was the first to respond, establishing its commission in 2018, followed by Finland, which formed its own Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). In Sweden, the Sámi are now developing their own process. In 2021, the Swedish Government initiated an important process to investigate historical policies affecting the Sámi, appointing a Truth Commission for the Sámi and a TRC for the Tornedalians, Kvens, and Lantalaiset (SOU 2023:68). All three initiatives represent an important step toward acknowledging and addressing the legacy of past assimilation policies and human rights violations.
Jeremy Sarkin is a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at NOVA University of Lisbon in Portugal and holds additional research positions at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and as an Extraordinary Professor of Law at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Sarkin has extensive experience in the field of transitional justice, beginning with his involvement in South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Since then, he has worked with truth and reconciliation processes in several countries across Africa, Asia, and Europe. In 2023, the UN General Assembly adopted a mechanism to deal with disappeared and missing persons in Syria based on Sarkin’s proposal. Today, his work spans a wide range of crises and transformation issues related to migration, gender, environmental justice and climate change, drones, genocide, enforced disappearances, music and human rights, among other areas.
Registration and Call for Talks
In the registration form you can 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 will be given to presentations of multidisciplinary research projects or plans.
Call for Collaborations
External actors interested in collaborating with CAT are welcome to indicate their interest via the registration form.
Registration
Register no later than December 8th. Register on the link below.