GENDER IMPACT OF POST-CONFLICT REPARATIONS: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES

The conference “Gender Impact of Post-Conflict Reparations: Historical, Philosophical and Legal Perspectives” will take place on 6 May 2025 at the Campus Luigi Einaudi, University of Turin, and online via Webex.

9:30 – Participants’ registration

9:45 – Welcome and introduction to Hub2
Speakers: Mia Caielli and Mia Callegari (University of Turin)

Keynote speech:
Micaela Frulli (University of Florence)

I session – Chair: Tullia Penna (University of Turin)

Panel I – Women, violence and reparations

• Claudia Zulema Robles Gómez (University of Vigo) – “The Legal Maze of Gender-Based Violence: Judicial Decision-Making and Gender-Sensitive Reparations in a Geo-Legal Perspective”
• Ludovica Cherubini Scafaroni (University of Palermo) – “A Necessary Encounter: Relational Justice as Intersection between Abolitionism and Gender Issues”

Panel II – Non-monetary reparations between art and access to education

• Chiara Chisari (University of Milan) – “Art and Reparative Practices from a Gender Perspective: The Experience of Fragmentos in Colombia”
• Mario Riberi (University of Turin) – “Silence is Not an Option. Hollywood Divas Against War”
• Larissa Tavares de Freitas (University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’) – “The Italian National Action Plan for the UN Women, Peace and Security Agenda and Non-Monetary Third-Party Reparations: Expanding Women’s Human Right to Education through the Example of Afghan Women”

II session – Chair: Ida Ferrero (University of Turin)

Panel I – Different forms of women victimisation during and after conflicts

• Matteo Traverso (University of Turin) – “The Condition of War Widows in History and Italian Law”
• Mario Gervasi (University of Bari Aldo Moro) – “Right to Reparation and State Jurisdictional Immunity: The Case of ‘Comfort Women’”

Panel II – Today and tomorrow: reparations and gender dimension in Ukraine

• Patricio Ignacio Barbirotto (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) – “Gendered and Environmental Dimensions of Reparations in Post-Conflict Ukraine: Challenges and Opportunities”
• Julia Volkova (University of Liverpool) – “The Gender of Reparations in the Context of Ukraine’s Gender Policy”

III session – Chair: Ludovica Poli (University of Turin)

Panel I – Reparations for international crimes

• Alessia Nicastro (Geneva Graduate Institute) – “Between Definition and Ambiguity: Examining the Role of Gender in the Draft Crimes Against Humanity Treaty”
• Rachele Marconi (University of Macerata) – “Gendering Reparations for Victims of IHL Violations”

Panel II – The ‘90s experience

• Ilaria Infante (University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’) – “Reparations for Women in Rwanda between the Shortcomings of the ICTR and the Unsatisfactory Experience of Domestic Reparations Schemes”
• Carlotta Paola Casella (University of Bari Aldo Moro) – “The Invisibility of Gender Apartheid in International Law and Post-Conflict Reparations Processes”

Join us in Turin or online: Webex Link