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Really?! Sophie Scholl on Instagram: An Analysis of the Journalistic Discourse
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
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Versöhnungstheater
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
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Memetizing genocides and post-genocide peacebuilding: Ambivalent implications of memes for youth participation and imaginaries in Rwanda
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 16 (2023), pp. 3157-3178
"In contexts where young people feel prohibited from reflecting openly on sensitive political issues, they may explore alternative ways to communicate and negotiate their opinions and beliefs. Internet memes are popular digital artifacts that offer a space for such debates. This research focuses on
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Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte
München: Beck, 5., durchges. Aufl. (2023), 127 pp.
"Das deutsche Kolonialreich war nicht groß und währte nur 30 Jahre. Es wirkte jedoch in vielfältiger Weise auf Deutschland zurück. Sebastian Conrad beschreibt, wie die koloniale Ordnung funktionierte, wo sie an ihre Grenzen stieß und wie die einheimischen Gesellschaften auf die Fremdherrschaft
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"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
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In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda
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
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Violent Past: Teaching Manual
Key Guides
Phnom Penh: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (2023), 103 pp.
"This manual offers ideas on how to discuss a violent past in an active manner. The manual mostly focuses on methodology: how to make learning about the past interesting for learners. There is less focus on the specific content of the past. To spark learner’s interest in the (violent) past, it is
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Dealing With the Past for a Peaceful Future? Analysing the Effect of Transitional Justice Instruments on Trust in Postconflict Societies
International Journal of Transitional Justice, volume 17 (2023), pp. 303-321
"Can dealing with a history of violent conflict through transitional justice help to rebuild social trust? Addressing three gaps in the current literature, we (1) analyse the effect of transitional justice on social trust, thereby going beyond the predominant focus on renewed violence; (2) use novel
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Memory and Erasure: Gukurahundi and the Culture of Violence in Zimbabwe
Bulawayo; Harare: Centre for Innovation and Technology (CITE); Weaver Press (2022), xxxi, 153 pp.
"Memory and Erasure brings together young and established Zimbabwean scholars and activists who explore with fresh eyes the failure to overcome the terrible legacies of this period. At its heart is recognition that justice cannot be achieved while Gukurahundi’s perpetrators remain in power and sti
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The Linguistic Dimensions of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe
In: Memory and Erasure: Gukurahundi and the Culture of Violence in Zimbabwe
Harare: Weaver Press (2022), pp. 81-95
"This chapter explored the linguistic dimensions of Gukurahundi to show the centrality of language before, during and after the genocide. We drew on online testimonies from survivors and statements from government officials as well as visible language planning and language practices in the post-Guku
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The First Draft of History. Journalists: Witnesses Before the Hague Tribunal
Sarajevo: Mediacentar (2022), 97 pp.
"The book was born out of the need to understand and convey the experience of journalists who testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Aiming to shed light on the insufficiently researched role of journalists and newspaper material before the ICTY, Media
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Changing the Story: Intergenerational Dialogue, Participatory Video and Perpetrator Memories in Cambodia
Memory Studies, volume 16, issue 5 (2022), 17 pp.
"Questions of reconciliation and memory after genocide and conflict in Cambodia remain finely poised. Young people often do not believe the stories of hardship and loss of the older generation, and cleavages remain between divided and stigmatised former factions. This article reflects on a series of
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Romper el silencio: Historias para no repetir la historia. Una estrategia de eduentretenimiento basada en la realidad colombiana, para cambiar la realidad colombiana
Bogotá: Fundación Imaginario (2022), 8 pp.
"A través de historias que nos conmueven y nos tocan emocionalmente, Romper el Silencio tiene como objetivo enseñarnos a escuchar a otras personas con apertura y empatía, aunque piensen distinto; a reconocer sus argumentos aunque no sean los nuestros; a respetar sus ideas sin señalamientos y al
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Guía para periodistas: Claves para comunicar el proceso, el informe final y el legado de la Comisión de la Verdad
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
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Viewing Photography in Post-Dictatorship Latin America: Visual Interruptions, 1997-2016
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xvii, 293 pp.
"This book examines the archival aesthetic of mourning and memory developed by Latin American artists and photographers between 1997-2016. Particular attention is paid to how photographs of the assassinated or disappeared political dissident of the 1970s and 1980s, as found in family albums and in o
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Hay futuro si hay verdad: Informe final. Vol.1: Convocatoria a la paz grande
Bogotá: Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición (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
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Periodismo participativo para reconstruir el pasado
Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ) (2022), 2 pp.
"Hacemos Memoria reúne en sus asesorías a reporteros, víctimas y ciudadanos interesados en conocer y discutir sobre el pasado violento que vivieron sus comunidades. Este proyecto de la Universidad de Antioquia convirtió el periodismo participativo en una herramienta para la producción colaborat
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Beyond MAUS: The Legacy of Holocaust Comics
Wien: Böhlau Verlag (2021), 420 pp.
"Beyond MAUS. The Legacy of Holocaust Comics collects 16 contributions that shed new light on the representation of the Holocaust. While MAUS by Art Spiegelman has changed the perspectives, other comics and series of drawings, some produced while the Holocaust happened, are often not recognised by a
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Archives and Human Rights
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
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La fuerza de esta voz
Bogotá: Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición (2021), 103 pp.
"Este libro es un homenaje a la historia de millones de colombianos y colombianas que se niegan a convivir con la violencia y que han encontrado en el perdón, y en el encuentro honesto con los responsables del daño y el dolor, el camino hacia la reconstrucción de las relaciones rotas por la guerr
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