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Robert van Voren discusses the issue of lustration and reconciliation - how states and individuals cope in the aftermath of war and genocide. He explores the psyche of those who commit mass murder and those who are the victims of it, as well as how certain states successfully utilized reconciliation to overcome their dark past. He specifically highlights the issue of lustration in Ukraine in the aftermath of Maidan.

Robert van Voren (1959) is Chief Executive of the Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry (FGIP) and Professor of Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi (Georgia) and at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Lithuania). He is a Sovietologist by education and graduated from Amsterdam University (modern and theoretical history + Russian language) in 1986, and defended his doctoral dissertation in Kaunas (Lithuania) in October 2010.

Starting in 1977 he became active in the Soviet human rights movement van Voren led the international campaigns against the political abuse of psychiatry in the USSR, as well as in defense of individual political prisoners such as Irina Grivnina and Anatoly Koryagin.

In 1980 Robert van Voren co-founded the International Association on Political Use of Psychiatry (the predecessor of GIP) and became its General Secretary in 1986. He was Director of the Second World Center in Amsterdam.

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