Memorialization and Democracy

Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action

Is our memorialization supporting our visions of democracy? The head of ICTJ's memory, museums, and memorials program, Louis Bickford, identified conflicting ...

Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action

Following the first international conference on the subject (Memorialization and Democracy), this report considers how memorialization ...

Expert: Memory is a key pillar for healing, democracy and peace

The memorialization process is a vital tool for enabling societies to emerge from the cycle of hatred and conflict and begin taking definite ...

Laying Foundations for Democratic Regimes through ...

By focusing on the memorials, rather than on the characteristics of a political regime, the article argues that memorials that are inclusive of ...

Full article: Laying Foundations for Democratic Regimes through ...

By focusing on the memorials, rather than on the characteristics of a political regime, the article argues that memorials that are inclusive of ...

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The socially generative nature of performative memory led to dissatisfaction with the performance of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action

This publication is based on the international conference Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action held on June 20-22, 2007 in Santiago, ...

Memory and democracy: a complex relationship -

This short article attempts to explain the different elements that I believe we need to consider in a conceptualisation of democratic memory.

Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action

A report based on the findings of the international conference Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action was held in June 2007 in ...

History, Memory, and Monuments: An Overview of the Scholarly ...

Reflecting on Congress's reluctance to fund a monument to George Washington, John Quincy Adams famously observed that “democracy has no monuments.” “True memory ...

Memorialization and democracy | Hafıza Merkezi

Especially in the last ten years, events and projects that aim to keep memory alive, such as historical places/sites, monuments and museums, ...

Pro-dictatorship memorialization in democratic Chile (1990–2020)

The first path that explains the maintenance of pro-dictatorship memorialization in democratic Chile is “Walls.” Faced with elimination demands ...

Reckoning with Monuments and Public Commemoration

Monuments, public memorials and historical memory are the products of decisions made always, in part, for political reasons.

FAQs - Sites of Conscience

Memorialization is important in various aspects of the transitional justice process, such as establishing the truth about historical events, providing symbolic ...

Human Rights and the Internationalization of Memory

But the moral responsibility for memorializing is not restricted to the state that is responsible for causing those abuses or for repairing them. It extends ...

The Effects of Public Memorials on Social Memory and Urban Identity

These requirements can be considered as democracy, human rights, representing the victims, social commemoration rituals for the victims, preserving history and ...

Laying Foundations for Democratic Regimes through ...

By focusing on the memorials, rather than on the characteristics of a political regime, the article argues that memorials that are inclusive of different ...

The Urge to Remember: The Role of Memorials in Social ...

Reconciliation has pragmatic dimensions and must be considered alongside programs to promote democracy, rule of law, and justice. Failure to pay ...

Civil Society Activism, Memory Politics and Democracy (Chapter 1)

Footnote Applied to memory politics as a realm of civic activity, this approach might suggest that civil society is an unequivocally positive force for ...

The International Journal of Transitional Justice - Sites of Conscience

for memorialization as integral to larger democracy-building strategies. ... State Policy and Civic Action' (report of the conference, 'Memorialization and ...