Peace Talks: Reconciliation After Conflict

How to reconcile a country after civil war? This is among the most important questions for post-conflict reconstruction but also one of the hardest to answer. In this “Peace-Talk” edition two veritable experts on the matter, Prof. Oeindrila Dube from the University of Chicago and Mr. Pierre Hazan from Humanitarian Dialogue, discuss the issue. A Q&A session will follow.

Quentin Gallea University of Zürich and University of Lausanne

Massimo Morelli Director, PERICLES - Political Economics of Reforms, Institutional Complexity, and Legislative Evaluation Studies Research Unit, BAFFI CAREFIN Center, Bocconi University

Dominic Rohner HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne

Oeindrila Dube Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

Dr. Oeindrila Dube is a professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at University of Chicago. An internationally renowned expert on conflict and reconciliation, her research has been published in the leading academic journals of her discipline. Her research affiliations include the NBER, CEPR, BREAD, and J-PAL, where she serves on the Board as co-chair the Crime and Violence Sector. She is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Center for Global Development; and a co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics.

Pierre Hazan Humanitarian Dialogue

Mr. Pierre Hazan is the senior advisor on transitional justice with the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue, one of the main organizations in armed conflict mediation. He has advised international organizations, governments and armed groups on questions related to justice, amnesty, reparation, truth commission, forced disappearances, international humanitarian law and human rights. He has also worked with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and collaborated with the United Nations in the Balkans. He was a member of the International Contact Group on the Basque Conflict, which co-organized in 2011 the Peace Conference leading to the end of political violence in the Basque country. He has worked in many conflict zones in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and in Europe.

Quentin Gallea University of Zürich and University of Lausanne

Massimo Morelli Bocconi University

Dominic Rohner HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne