Conference
Panel: 'Peace-washing': the case of Palestine
- Date
- Wednesday 10 December 2025
- Time
- Address
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- 2.02
On the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 1948, this panel examines the application of human rights in colonial contexts. Do human rights serve to liberate or dominate colonised people? We explore how global peace processes—championed by institutions such as the United Nations—can obscure structural power imbalances, sidestep accountability, and reproduce (neo-)colonial systems under the banner of peace and co-existence. We discuss peace processes through the lens of Palestine, covering the period from the League of Nations Mandate and the 1947 UN Partition Plan to the Oslo Accords and the most recent Security Council Resolution endorsing Trump’s plan for Gaza, asking: what kind of peace is being built, for whom, and at what cost?
Speakers
- Tahrir Hamdi, Professor of anti-colonial and resistance literature and Director of Arab Open University in Jordan
- Louis Brehony, Musician, activist, researcher and editor at the Palestine Chronicle
- Bana Abu Zuluf, Hume PhD Scholar at the Department of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
- Sara Troian, Hume and IRC PhD Scholar at the Department of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University
Moderator: Gjovalin Macaj, Leiden University