Dealing with the Past CAMECO

This special collection focuses on the role of the media and communication in Dealing with Violent Pasts. It is based on the collaboration between the Media Consultancy CAMECO in Aachen (Germany) and the Agiamondo Civil Peace programme on Dealing with the Past in the African Great Lakes region. Within a network of ten civil society organisations, including seven Catholic Justice and Peace Commissions in Burundi, Rwanda and DR Congo, CAMECO contributes its expertise in media and communication for Peace. This collection is organised by Justine Cibembe and Christoph Dietz.

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African Media Portrayals of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi

Brooke Chambers, J. Siguru Wahutu

International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2436-2455

"Much has been written about the media coverage of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. However, with few exceptions, much of this work has often focused on how the journalism fields from the global North framed the genocide, with little work on how African fields covered it. This article eschews th ... more

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Koloniales Erbe verhandeln: Erinnerung und Macht bei der Aufarbeitung der Kolonialvergangenheit in Hamburg

Georg Krajewsky

Frankfurt; New York: Campus Verlag (2024), 345 pp.

"Im Sommer 2014 beschloss der Hamburger Senat, die Hansestadt solle als erste Stadt in Deutschland mit der Aufarbeitung ihrer Kolonialvergangenheit beginnen. Das Buch untersucht die Verhandlungen über die Neuausrichtung städtischer Erinnerungspolitik im Rahmen des Runden Tisches "Koloniales Erbe" ... more

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War(s) in Europe. Shared experience, collective memory? A toolbox with methods tested in Germany, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ida Avdibegovic, Nathalie Chevalier, Anne Favre et al.

Berlin: Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO); Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (EVZ Foundation) (2024), 56 pp.

"Whether as a central theme or a reflection on current events, the issue of war is very important in international youth exchanges. This publication aims to provide guidance on how to talk about war in such contexts. Key questions that have been examined include the occurrence of past and current wa ... more

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Making Sense of International and Transitional Justice

Mediation: Biannual Publication of Fondation Hirondelle, issue 12 (2023), 6 pp.

"With the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, international criminal justice is back in the headlines. It had its golden age 30 years ago with the creation of international tribunals. Today, international justice procedures have become more complex, including non-judicial mechanisms for truth-seeki ... more

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Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony after the Cold War

George S. MacLeod

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2023), xx, 227 pp.

"Mediating Violence from Africa explores how African and non-African Francophone authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpreted, and filmed the violent histories of post–Cold War Francophone Africa. This violence, much of which unfolded in front of Western television cameras ... more

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Fotogeschichten und Geschichtsbilder: Aneignung und Umdeutung historischer Fotografien in Tansania

Eliane Kurmann

Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2023), 393 pp.

"In Tansania etablierten sich seit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes neue und eigenständige Praktiken in der Verwendung kolonialer Hinterlassenschaften. Ausgehend von den aktuellen Gebrauchsweisen dreier Fotografien aus dem späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert zeigt Eliane Kurmann, wie Tansanierinn ... more

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GIJN Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes
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Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) (2023)

"GIJN’s comprehensive, 16-chapter Reporter’s Guide to Investigating War Crimes includes expert advice from more than two dozen specialists and journalists, covering everything from the legal aspects of war, attacks on civilians, conflict-related sexual violence, environmental crimes, banned weap ... more

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Versöhnungstheater

Max Czollek

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 173 pp.

"Die im demokratischen Deutschland etablierte Erinnerungskultur gilt vielen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern als ein Erfolgsmodell, auf das sie mit einem gewissen Stolz blicken können. In der Tat war es ein langer Weg von der weitgehenden Verdrängung der nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen bis zu ihrer ö ... more

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Education Agenda: NS-Injustice

Sophie Ziegler, Katrin Kowark, Hanna Komornitzyk, Emilie Buchheister (eds.)

Berlin: Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) (2023), 44 pp.

"The Education Agenda NS-Injustice started in autumn 2021 with two certainties: Firstly, the survivors are passing away; there are few chances today to meet eyewitnesses who can tell us first-hand about the atrocities committed by the National Socialists. Secondly, we are increasingly entering conte ... xts in which boundaries between fiction and fact are blurred. Under these conditions, we are dependent on new ways of learning and innovative forms of conveyance in our critical examination of National Socialist injustice and in historical-political educational work. But what are these innovative forms of conveyance? Certainly they are more than mere apps and VR glasses. Digitality is an important factor, but by no means the only one. That is why our projects also work in an analog and participatory way: whether through a play, a research project or the curation of an exhibition. By involving people with different biographies, we strengthen knowledge about the history of National Socialism and its continuing effects in the here and now. Victim-centered, diversity-sensitive, and interdisciplinary: these are other criteria that make the projects of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice so special. Our MEMO Youth Study, published in spring 2023, clearly shows that young people are aware of current societal challenges. They are interested in Nationalist Socialist history and see points of reference to today’s social issues and conflicts. But with the passage of time, knowledge about Nationalist Socialist history and the Holocaust is declining. At the same time, a large number of young people want to participate in educational offerings on Nationalist Socialist history — to acquire knowledge, to visit historical sites, and to understand the links between past and present. The EVZ Foundation and its funded projects are committed to this mission — also and especially with the Education Agenda NS-Injustice, which focuses on young, working people, and those interested in history. For today, educational biographies do not end with a high school or college degree. One example of ongoing education is the initiative of the EVZ Foundation “Informed, Courageous, Committed!” This three-fold objective not only describes the ingredients for effective educational work; it also stands for a project of the Education Agenda NS-Injustice that commences where thousands of people meet every day: the workplace. A multimedia blended learning format with both classroom and e-learning trains employees of German companies, whether apprentices or managers, to deal sensitively with antisemitism and imparts intervention skills. For more than two years now, the projects of this multidimensional funding program have been in full swing. In this first issue, we are pleased to present groundbreaking projects and current discourses on the culture of remembrance and education about National Socialist injustice." (Welcome, page 4) more

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Research handbook on transitional justice

Cheryl Lawther, Luke Moffett (eds.)

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2nd ed. (2023), xxii, 524 pp.

"Providing a refreshing take on transitional justice, this thoroughly revised second edition brings together an expanse of scholarly expertise to reconsider how societies deal with gross human rights violations, structural injustices and mass violence. Contextualised by historical developments, it c ... more

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@ichbinsophiescholl: Darstellung und Diskussion von Geschichte in Social Media

Mia Berg, Christian Kuchler (eds.)

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2023), 244 pp.

"Was wäre, wenn Sophie Scholl auf Instagram aktiv gewesen wäre? Soziale Medien werden auch zur Vermittlung von Geschichte immer populärer. Eines der jüngsten Beispiele ist das Instagramprojekt @ichbinsophiescholl der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten SWR und BR, das Nutzer:innen an den l ... more

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The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and Ethics

Noam Tirosh, Anna Reading (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2023), x, 168 pp.

"The field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. The Right to Memory looks beyond these everyday practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order t ... more

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Aber ich lebe: Vier Kinder überleben den Holocaust. Nach den Erinnerungen von Emmie Arbel, David Schaffer, Nico Kamp und Rolf Kamp

Barbara Yelin, Miriam Libicki, Gilad Seliktar

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 175 pp.

"Es gibt kaum noch Zeitzeugen des Holocaust. Die letzten erzählen von ihrer Erinnerung als Kinder in den Konzentrationslagern der Nationalsozialisten und über die Verfolgung und Ermordung ihrer Familien. Um diese Erinnerungen vor dem Vergessen zu bewahren, haben die Zeichnerinnen Barara Yelin, Mir ... more

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In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda

Stephanie Wolfe, Matthew C. Kane, Tawia B. Ansah (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxix, 281 pp.

"This book brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda. It explores the various strategies the state, civil society, and individuals have employed to come to terms with their past and shape their future. The main objectiv ... more

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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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Memo: Multidimensionaler Erinnerungsmonitor 2023. Jugendstudie

Stiftung Erinnerung Verantwortung Zukunft (EVZ) (2023), 64 pp.

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Really?! Sophie Scholl on Instagram: An Analysis of the Journalistic Discourse

Martina Thiele, Tanja Thomas

Journalism Research, volume 6, issue 1 (2023), pp. 6-31

"This paper examines the journalistic discourse on the Instagram project @ichbinsophiescholl, initiated by Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). The project is based on a fictional premise in which the resistance fighter Sophie Scholl uses the social media platform Instagram during t ... more

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Media Mapping and Dealing with the Past

Getoarbë Mulliqi-Bojaj, Abit Hoxha, Milan Spirovski

forum ZFD Kosovo & North Macedonia (2023), 23 pp.

"Despite their differences, both Kosovo and North Macedonia have shared challenges with regards to reporting about the past. Problems with violence and trust building in the communities is a field of reporting that does not often go beyond borders of ethnicity and political landscape. Reaching acros ... s the ethnic lines and political division, puts journalists in a dichotomous role between reporting on own community and revealing the truth which jeopardizes the true nature of journalism and the use of objective methodology in choosing sources. This media landscape report for Kosovo and North Macedonia also includes an overview of the self-perception of role of journalists in the society as it pertains to dealing with the past. Journalists stand in the center of journalistic concepts of professional ideology of independence, neutral reporting, and eye-witness accounting in one hand and their duty to accompany nation building processes, deal with crimes, scrutinize former officials of prior political structure and keep current political leaders accountable. This puts journalists in a particular position of being public defenders of the state, nation, and society building but also of development in post-conflict which is part of a wider political agenda. Hence, media actors are almost exclusively part of the political landscape. They argue that media and politics go hand in hand, both in Kosovo and North Macedonia. This, in itself, is challenging. Such interdependence of politics and media make is difficult for media to keep political actors accountable and jeopardizes the role of media in society. The media landscape in Kosovo and North Macedonia incorporates both expert views and empirical research findings that can help structural interventions to continue enhancing the professionalism of journalists with regards to making ethical choices in reporting on dealing with the past. It also guides them to care more about sensitive cases where privacy, the rights of families and victims, and their dignity take the spotlight while leaving sensationalist and celebritization of news reporting for other news beats. Arguing for a bottom-up and conflict-sensitive reporting in dealing with the past, Kosovo and North Macedonian journalists will build themselves pathways of dealing with the past through content that cares about the about truth and dignity while respecting human rights and the rights of victims of conflicts. This enables peace and reconciliation among communities serving the general interests of the people first." (About the project, page 7) more

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Russia’s critical memory: An empirical study of Russia’s culture of remembrance, 2023

Ralf Possekel

Berlin: Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) (2023), 15 pp.

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Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses: The Power of Togetherness

Jude Boyles, Robin Ewart-Biggs, Rebecca Horn, Kirsten Lamb (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), 260 pp.

"Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses describes, explores and promotes the power of groupwork for refugees and survivors of human rights abuses in a range of contexts. Drawing on multiple theoretical approaches, the book features chapters from practitioners running groups in ... more

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