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Dr Lauren Dempster

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Lauren Dempster

Dr Lauren Dempster

School of Law

My work focuses on transitional justice. My research is interdisciplinary, drawing on law, criminology, anthropology and politics in particular. I am particularly interested in enforced disappearances, specifically in relation to victim mobilisation, the involvement of non-state armed groups in ‘disappearing’ and efforts to recover the ‘disappeared’. I am also interested in efforts to deal with the past in Northern Ireland, the environmental impacts of conflict and transition, and the relationship between transitional justice and so-called ‘dark tourism’.

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  • Lauren.Dempster@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 5155

Research Interests

Open to PhD applications in: 

  • Transitional justice
  • Enforced disappearances
  • Efforts to deal with the past in Northern Ireland
  • Victim mobilisation
  • The relationship between the environment and transitions from conflict
  • The role of forensic science in transitions from conflict

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Research students

 

PhD area International Human Rights Law and the Creation of Legal Obligations 
Name David Browne
   
PhD area Exploring Legal and Ethical Dimesions in Belfast's Planned Digital Innovation Ecosystem
Name Rachael Goss
   
PhD area The Environment-Conflict Nexus: The Weaknesses of the Transitional Justice Regime and its Consequences for Conflict-Induced Environmental Harm 
Name Lydia Millar
   

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area Saudi Arabia and Human Trafficking: Poised between Sharia and International Law
Name Dr Latif Alkharji
Years of study PhD awarded 2023
   
PhD area Settler colonialism, civil society and the Judaisation of East Jerusalem
Name Dr Sonia Najjar
Years of study PhD awarded 2022

Discover More

  • Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Human Rights Centre
  • The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice

 

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