Atrocity Prevention in the Americas:

Gender Violence, Citizen Security and the Role of the Police

Conference Agenda

Thursday, November 29, 2018

9:30 am to 3:00 pm

East Dining Room, Music Building

Lehman College

9:00 am – Registration and Coffee

9:15 am - Welcome

Dr. Victoria Sanford, Lehman Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies (Anthropology)

Dr. Tibi Galis, Auschwitz Institute

9:30 am – Opening Remarks

Dr. Jose Luis Cruz, President of Lehman College

9:45 am to 11:00 - Panel 1

The Sequelae and Prevention of Gender Violence and Sexual Abuse

Chair: Dr. Michael Buckley, Lehman Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies (Philosophy)

General Pamela Olivares, Director National Police (Chile)

Ximena Antillón Najlis,  Fundar Center for Analysis and Research (Mexico)

Dr. Kimberly Theidon, Fletcher School, Tufts University

11:00 to 12:30 – Panel 2

Citizen Security and Police Reform in Post-Conflict

Chair: Dr. Max Pensky, Institute for Genocide & Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton U

Colonel Luis Ernesto Garcia Hernandez, Director National Police Academy (Colombia)

Maria Marvis Jiron, Founder and Assembly Member, Centro de Mujeres Ixchen, (Nicaragua)

Tatiana Devia, American University Law School

12:30 to 1:15 luncheon served

1:15 to 2:30 -Panel 3

Organized Crime and Corruption – Prevention and Prosecution

Chair: Dr. Nela Navarro, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers U

Ana Maria Mendez Dardon, human rights lawyer, (Guatemala)

Dr. Jon Carter, Department of Anthropology, Appalachian State University

Marlon Weichert, Deputy Federal Ombudsman, Federal Public Ministry (Brazil)

Dr. James Waller, Cohen Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Keene State College

2:30 to 3:00 Closing Discussion

Chair: Dr. Rima Brusi,  Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies, Lehman College

Co-Sponsored by 

Lehman Center for Human Rights & Peace Studies 

Auschwitz Institute for Peace & Reconciliation

Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights, Rutgers University