Healing Humanity, Efforts against Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Healing Humanity, Efforts against Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Healing Humanity
Efforts Against Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Faculty of Theology AUTH Friday, February 17, 2023
EET 9:30 – 16:30
A conference organized by the Archdiocese of Thyateira & Great Britain in collaboration with the Faculty of Theology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Healing Humanity: Efforts Against Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
A conference organized by the Archdiocese of Thyateira & Great Britain
in collaboration with the Faculty of Theology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
EET 9:30 – 16:30
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 FACULTY OF THEOLOGY AUTH
9:30 – 11:10 (EET) Greeting from Dr Chrysostomos Stamoulis,
Dean of the Faculty of Theology AUTH
Panel I: Migration, Conflict and Human Trafficking
Chair: Dr Nikos Maghioros, President of School of Theology AUTH Dr Carole Murphy, St Mary's University Twickenham London
Trafficking within borders: missed opportunities to prevent, identify and protect victims of human trafficking in England and Wales
Dr Evgenia Iliadou, Hibiscus for Social Justice
Refugee Crisis and Human Trafficking on the Greek Island of Lesvos
Dr Ronan Lee, Loughborough University London
Myanmar’s Rohingya: genocide and forced migration
Presentation by the A21 Campaign, Thessaloniki Office 11:10 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:00 Panel II: Policy, Governance and Human Trafficking
Chair: Dr Petre Breazu, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Loughborough University London
Dr Alison Gardner, University of Nottingham
Faith and anti-slavery governance: a force for good?
Dr Katerina Hadjimatheou, University of Essex
The conflicted role of border guards and border forces in preventing human trafficking
Dr Oana Burcu, University of Nottingham
Labour exploitation in the agri-food and garment sector
13:00 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:30 Panel III: Orthodoxia and Orthopraxia: The Role of the Church in Combating Slavery
Chair: Dr Apostolos Kralidis, President of School of Social Theology and Christian Culture AUTH
Dr Christos Tsironis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
From the responsibility to protect to the liberating dynamics: The Church response to the ethical and social challenges of child slavery in the modern world.
Dr Ekaterini Tsalampouni, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Human trafficking as a challenge for the Church: a biblical response
Closing remarks by His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira & Great Britain