On Wednesday 24 June 20 26, CICJ organizes a book launch for the recently published volume on 'Emotions, Ethics and Mass Atrocities'.
The book explores how scholars, teachers and practitioners navigate the emotions, and corr esponding ethical dilemmas, of working in the field of mass atrocitie s. Being continuously exposed to the suffering of the victims, the cr imes of the perpetrators and the lasting impact on post-conflict soci eties, may take a toll on the wellbeing of scholars, students and pra ctitioners. These inadvertent consequences have long been ignored, in research and in practice, but lead to ethical conundrums. To what ex tent do negative emotions influence the work and decision-making of s cholars, teachers and practitioners, and should they play a role?
The book will be launched with a roundtable discussion with Thijs Bouwknegt, Marije Luitjens, Caecilia van Peski, Maartje Weerdesteijn and Martin Witteveen which will be moderated by Alette Smeulers.< /em>
In order to register, please send an e-mail to m.weerdesteijn@vu.nl.
The event takes place in room IN-2A45, second floor in the Law Faculty (Initium building).
DESCRIPTION: The book explores how scholars, teachers and practitioner s navigate the emotions, and corresponding ethical dilemmas, of worki ng in the field of mass atrocities. Being continuously exposed to the suffering of the victims, the crimes of the perpetrators and the las ting impact on post-conflict societies, may take a toll on the wellbe ing of scholars, students and practitioners. These inadvertent conseq uences have long been ignored, in research and in practice, but lead to ethical conundrums. To what extent do negative emotions influence the work and decision-making of scholars, teachers and practitioners, and should they play a role? The book will be launched with a roundt able discussion with Thijs Bouwknegt, Marije Luitjens, Caecilia van P eski, Maartje Weerdesteijn and Martin Witteveen which will be moderat ed by Alette Smeulers. In order to register, please send an e-mail to m.weerdesteijn@vu.nl< /a>. The event takes place in room IN-2A45, second floor in the Law F aculty (Initium building). On Wednesday 24 June 2026, CICJ organizes a book launch for the recently published volume on 'Emotions, Ethics and Mass Atrocities'. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR