CAMECO is a partner of the Agiamondo Civil Peace Service programme in the African Great Lakes Region that focuses on Dealing with the Past. Within a network of ten civil society organisations, including seven Catholic Commissions for Peace and Justice in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, CAMECO contributes its expertise in media and communication. This Special Collection brings together materials from the region and from all over the world, focusing on the role of the media in dealing with violent pasts. The collection is curated by Justine Cibembe.

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"The Collective Memory Reader presents, organizes, and evaluates past work and contemporary contributions on collective memory. Combining seminal texts, hard-to-find classics, previously untranslated references, and contemporary landmarks, it will serve as a key reference in the field. In addition t ... more

Memory in Culture

Houndmills; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), ix, 209 pp.
"This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting current international and interdisciplinary m ... more
"All stories about an ordinary person who becomes the victim of abuse require extra sensitivity, because survivors of abuse – whether the abuse is physical, emotional or political – are usually survivors of a traumatic event. There are many kinds of traumatic events. A terrible car crash, an ear ... more
"This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spai ... more
"The role of journalists in covering trauma and tragedy isn’t new. Witnessing acts of violence, destruction and terror has long been the professional responsibility of countless print and broadcast reporters and photographers. But what is new is a growing awareness of the emotional consequences of ... more
This report details the results of the first year of a two-year impact assessment being conducted on the Interactive Radio for Justice project at its sites of operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Central African Republic (CAR). Interactive Radio for Justice is a project designed t ... more
"Esta es una historia de historias. Esta es la historia de una intuición que se concretó en idea, que se volvió en proyecto, que se convirtió en comunidad/red llamada www.desdeadentro.info, un tejido de historias que no tiene dueños pero tiene sentido en cuanto cuenta, narra, relata. ¿Qué som ... more
"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
"The essays collected in this book follow a contemporary critical trend in the field of trauma studies that reflects comparatively on artistic and media representations of traumatic histories and experiences from countries around the world. Focusing on a diversity of art and media forms—including ... more
"For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars who bring the future into th ... more
"Die gesamte Bandbreite der Gedächtnisforschung. Ausgehend von den neurologischen und psychologischen Grundlagen betrachtet das Handbuch die vielfältigen Formen des Gedächtnisses darunter das autobiografische, das kollektive, das kommunikative und das soziale Gedächtnis. Einen weiteren Schwerpun ... more
"This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, explaining how contemporary trauma studies emerged from research on Holocaust representation in which the audiovisual testimony of survivors was pos ... more
"A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies." (Publisher ... more

Right to memory

Media Development, volume 57, issue 2 (2010), pp. 3-59
"How reliable are the mass media’s stories and images of yesterday let alone of the more remote past? Only by rigorously cross-checking different sources of public or cultural memory might one reach a point that is reasonably balanced and accurate – an exercise in triangulating memory’s ever ... more
"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