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Collective Trauma

D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 1 (2023), pp. 21-31

"If a society does not come to terms with horrific atrocities of the past, tensions may fast escalate into new strife. People must know the truth. The causes of violence must be spelt out and the perpetrators must be named. Otherwise, a new sense of mutual trust cannot grow. Such trust is needed for ... more

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Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives

Ylva Rodny-Gumede, Colin Chasi, Zubeida Jaffer, Mvuso Ponono (eds.)

London, New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 271 pp.

"This volume responds to the great need to rethink journalism from various perspectives including journalism training, research, the contents of the news media, language, media ethics, the safety of journalists and gender inequities in the news media." (Publisher description)

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Educación política: Debates de una historia por construir

Marcela Pardo, Stefan Peters (eds.)

Bogotá: Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (2023), 232 pp.

"El presente libro pretende arrojar luz sobre la importancia de la educación política a partir de hallazgos por parte de una academia crítica y comprometida con la democracia y la paz y desarrollar recomendaciones prácticas para el diseño de la educación política en Colombia. También pretend ... more

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Guía para periodistas: Claves para comunicar el proceso, el informe final y el legado de la Comisión de la Verdad

Martha Lucía Martínez Escobar et al.

Bogotá: Comisión de la Verdad; Taller de Edición Rocca (2022), 220 pp.

"Los medios de comunicación son grandes aliados en la sensibilización y apropiación del legado de la Comisión de la Verdad. El Informe Final brinda la oportunidad de difundirlo a través de una variedad de formatos innovadores que vayan más allá del registro de historias. Los contextos explica ... more

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Hay futuro si hay verdad: Informe final. Vol.1: Convocatoria a la paz grande

Bogotá: la Convivencia y la No Repetición Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad (2022), 51 pp.

"Reconciliación significa aceptar la verdad como condición para la construcción colectiva y superar el negacionismo y la impunidad. Significa tomar la determinación de nunca más matarnos y sacar las armas de la política. Significa aceptar que somos muchos —en diverso grado, por acción o por ... more

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Archives and Human Rights

Jens Boel, Perrine Canavaggio, Antonio González Quintana (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxi, 330 pp.

"Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the ... more

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Voces por la verdad: Una mirada interdisciplinaria a las comisiones de la verdad para comprender el caso colombiano

Arbeláez Rojas, Olga Lucía (eds.)

Medellín: Editorial Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2020), 199 pp.

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Memoria, verdad y justicia: Herramientas para comunicar desde los derechos humanos
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Gisela Cardozo (coord.)

Buenos Aires: Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (APDH); World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2019), 127 pp.

"Esta guía no tiene por objetivo relatar los hechos de la historia, sino abordar distintos aspectos de utilidad para la cobertura periodística. Los diversos aspectos de la comunicación pueden resultar inabarcables, es por eso que esta guía no pretende ser exhaustiva pero sí señalar algunas cue ... more

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Perú: Medios, memoria y violencia. Conferencias en Hamburgo

Markus Klaus Schäffauer, Blanca Segura García, Rocío Silva Santisteban, Hildegard Willer (eds.)

Lima: Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya; Universität Hamburg (2014), 256 pp.

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La Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación y los medios de comunicación: Ayacucho y Lima

Antonio Zapata Velasco

Lima: Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (DED); Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) (2010), 60 pp.

"El presente trabajo nace de un acuerdo entre el DED y el IEP para realizar dos estudios sobre la implementación de las recomendaciones emitidas en el Informe Final de la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación . Este segundo trabajo trata sobre los medios de prensa y el Informe Final de la CVR; h ... more

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Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century

Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, Jay Winter, Ruth Ginio (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2010), ix, 223 pp.

"Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores the ways in which different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silence ... more

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Community Archives: The Shaping of Memory

Jeannette Allis Bastian, Ben F. Alexander (eds.)

London: Facet (2009), xxiv, 286 pp.

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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict

Don Foster, Paul Haupt, Marésa De Beer

Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation; HSRC Press; James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.

"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil ... thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322) more

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Cap 3.4: Los medios de comunicación

In: Informe Final

Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (ed.)

Lima: Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (2003), pp. 489-549

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