How can a society turn around and recover after genocide? Survivors need to achieve justice. For these survivors, justice in the legal sense is not enough. New considerations of justice are as or more important to making survivors feel whole again.

Biography

Samantha Lakin is a Cummings Foundation Fellow, PhD student at The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University. She received her M.A. at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. She holds a B.A. from Brandeis University in International and Global Studies, Politics, and French. Samantha was a Fulbright scholar to Switzerland, a grantee with the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has worked on gender issues at the World Health Organization. She has presented original research at a number of international conferences, including the University of London, The International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, the Museum of Tolerance New York, and the International Society of Political Psychology. Her research focuses on human security in post-conflict societies, looking at memorialization practices initiated by states and survivors. Samantha also serves as a consultant for the Kigali Genocide Memorial and Aegis Trust in Rwanda, and on the Advisory Board of the Genocide Survivors Support Network.