F. Mourlon will focus on the personal itinerary of Brandon Hamber, a South African trained psychologist, who after coordinating the Transition and Reconciliation Unit at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, settled in Northern Ireland in the late 1990s. He has been involved in various organisations, namely Healing Through Remembering and he is now Director of the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) at the University of Ulster. He took part actively in the debate on victims and survivors and on dealing with the past in Northern Ireland and was instrumental in shaping policies in those two fields. To what extent did his South African experience impact on the practices and policies he implemented in Northern Ireland? To what extent were these transposed or accommodated to the local agenda?