Theme: And Justice For All

In this TEDxLeuven Salon we'll explore the potential of rethinking Justice as we know it.

KUL Faculty of economics - HOG 02.28
Naamsestraat 69
Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant (nl), 3000
Belgium

An Kenes

experience expert

An Kenes has been a victim - held at gunpoint - but isn't any more.In this personal talk, An looks back at her own experience of being held hostage and the following confrontation with the perpetrators. She explores the value of these victim-perpetrator meetings and what she has learnt from this episode.

Anita Vandevivere

Conflict prevention coach

Working with people both intrigues and inspires her. Being challenged by the diverse backgrounds of her clients and their different business contexts engages her. She adapts her interventions to the needs of the individual, the team or the organisation. How she brings value is her independent and fresh way of being. She is never afraid to ask pertinent questions that help individuals or teams address the challenges they face. She has a reputation for being direct yet respectful and forlistening non-judgmentally. Her approach helps clients discover different perspectives and gain new insights. Her roles are threefold - a coach, a sounding board, and a facilitator of conversations that need to happen, mostly working with senior leaders and their staff. Often she is an enabler or a catalyst depending on what she observe, sense and feel that is going on in the here and now. Depending on which topics or needs emerge, She is also asked to offer specific training programs.

Brunilda Pali

Researcher Restorative Justice

Brunilda Pali is currently a postdoc researcher in the Leuven Institute of Criminology. She obtained her PhD in 2016 at the KU Leuven Institute of Criminology on “Doing restorative justice in intercultural contexts: An alternative discourse of justice and security”. In the Leuven Institute of Criminology, Brunilda has also worked as a researcher on several EU-funded projects, besides the FP7 project ALTERNATIVE. She is also co-editor of the “Restoring Justice and Security in Intercultural Europe”. Besides criminology, Brunilda has a background of psychology (Bosphorus University, Istanbul), gender studies (Central European University, Budapest), and cultural studies (Bilgi University, Istanbul). She is also currently the Secretary of the European Forum Restorative Justice Board. She publishes on multiple themes, like restorative justice, critical criminology, security, social movements, gender, and arts.

Elien Spillebeen

Socially inspired documentary maker

Elien studied International Politics in Gent and Aix-en-Provence and specialized in my master year in third world politics. To complete her research for her master thesis Elien left for Eastern Congo for the first time in 2008. At her own initiative she returned several times to the region to spend more time with the women of this region. She wanted to understand the different aspects of a woman's life in one of the most dangerous region to live as a woman. She gave herself the mission the create a balanced portret of women living in a conflict region. This resulted in the documentary Backup Butembo, but also led to the founding of the organisation Mama Kivu. The resilience of the women inspired her to get more involved herself. In 2017 she launched the project Beni Files, an online monument and documentary to give the victims of a series of massacres in Eastern Congo a human face.

Jens Franssen

War Journalist

Jens Franssen (°1974) is a Belgian journalist (VRT NWS) who covers the Middle-East, South-Asia, conflicts and defense. He regularly travels to war zones in Libya, Syria and Afghanistan. His radio reporting has been awarded several times. In 2011 he was granted the title ‘Grand Reporter’ in France. His 360 ° short-docs Syria’s Silence and Ryad’s War Oil have been nominated for the Prix Europa and INPUT. Franssen reports from places people flee from. However, he has promised his wife not to get shot at or get trapped in a mortar attack -again.

Saskia De Bruyn

Poverty Prevention Centre Coordinator

Saskia studied Social and Cultural Education at the University of Leuven and wrote a master thesis on empowerment in community development projects. In her eager to translate theory into practice, she worked together with a diversity of groups, including travellers, Rom people, refugees and families that live in poverty. She was involved in action research on gender and poverty. Since 14 years she works at the RuimteVaart, nowadays in the role of general coordinator. This community organization was founded with the objective of providing necessary adapted services by organizing the community to take action themselves. De RuimteVaart wants to bring poor people together with other poor and non-poor in an organization where they can feel at home and where