Accountability and Justice for Atrocities in Ukraine: Lessons from the Past and Present

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

This panel considers what it means, from a multidisciplinary perspective, to achieve accountability and justice after events of mass atrocity. Ranging from Cold War transitional justice efforts in Ukraine and beyond to the current Russo-Ukrainian War, the papers in this panel consider how approaches to justice and transitional justice have emerged in response to different atrocities committed against Ukraine over the course of history. Specific focus will be devoted to the 1932-33 Holodomor, the creation and work of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, state and non-state responses to returning forcibly deported Ukrainian children back home, and efforts to work toward retributive and restorative justice in response to ongoing Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Sub Unit

• History: 1945-1990

Chair

• John Vsetecka, Nova Southeastern U

Papers

• 'In Order to Expand the World's Knowledge': Investigative Ukrainian Famine Commissions and Transitional Justice during the Late Cold War - John Vsetecka, Nova Southeastern U

• Spotlighting Atrocity: External Support for the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and Union, 1976-1991 - Katerina Szylo, U of Oxford (UK)

• Kherson Invasion Chronicles: Occupation, Liberation, and the Battle for Normality and Identity - Katerina Sviderska, U of Cambridge (UK)

• Constructing a Sustainable Just Peace: Post-War Accountability for Russian Atrocities in Ukraine as Tools of Trauma Healing and Conflict Transformation - Kristina Hook, Kennesaw State U

Discussant

• Sophia Wilson, Southern Illinois U Edwardsville