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Over two days, many of the world’s leading experts and practitioners gathered in Belfast to discuss the global legacies and implications of enforced disappearance. Hosted by the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University, as the first international conference of its kind, “The Disappeared: Addressing the Legacies and Challenges of Confronting Human Disappearance” brought together leading voices from the policy sector, academia and world of arts to centre “disappearance studies” as a new core research field in politics, international relations and legal studies and in conflict, violence and peace related programmes. With the participation of those affected by disappearance, policymakers, practitioners and scholars, the conference considered historical understandings and experiences alongside new ethical and conceptual frameworks, research agendas and policy responses with the objective of launching Disappearance Studies as a sub-field of policy-relevant research and practice in its own right.
 

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