Beyond national cultures of remembrance
Since the early 1950s, international exchange and encounter schemes have been an increasingly important form of youth education work in Germany. Bilateral events usually involve complicated visa requirements, which are accompanied by significant administrative work. In recent years there has been a noticeable increase in multilateral encounters. Since the early 1950s, international exchange and encounter […]
Memory in international youth encounters
The memory of the genocide of Sinti and Roma has very different starting points in German and Czech society. German-Czech youth encounters enable young people to gather new experiences outside the national framework of remembrance and to deal openly with the topic due to the distance in time and over generations. International youth encounters are […]
Es geht hier nicht um Religion
Europaabgeordnete fordern, dass die EU angesichts der politischen Krise und humanitären Katastrophe in Cabo Delgado energischer eingreift. Das Narrativ des Religionskonfliktes verhindert Lösungen. Seit längerer Zeit schwelt in der Provinz Cabo Delgado im Norden Mosambiks ein Konflikt, dessen Ausmaß erst jetzt auch in Europa wahrgenommen wird. Journalist*innen, Aktivist*innen und Forscher*innen riskieren ihr Leben, wenn sie […]
Experience history together
Under the motto “Remembering together for a common future”, the bilateral youth exchange between Germany and the Czech Republic has focused in recent years on dealing with their shared history. At one time, international youth exchanges tended to focus on national customs and folk elements. The original thinking behind these official exchange and encounter programmes […]
Experience history together
Under the motto „Remembering together for a common future“, the bilateral youth exchange between Germany and the Czech Republic has focused in recent years on dealing with their shared history. At one time, international youth exchanges tended to focus on national customs and folk elements. The original thinking behind these official exchange and encounter programmes […]
Neither Justice nor Transition
Transitional justice aims at providing mechanisms to deal with past atrocities and pave the way for building a society based on peace and justice. Reflecting insights from victimology, Dr Terry Savage however believes that transitional justice measures often miss the needs of victims and fail to provide justice for them. But how should transitional justice […]
The future of the transitional justice field
How should transitional justice and related fields move into the future? Drawing on interviews, in the final blog post of this series Louis Bickford suggests seven ways in which the vast field could and should adapt itself to the current global context. During the last year, I have had the opportunity to interview a small […]
Racial justice, historical legacies, and truth commissions
This blog series examined the field of transitional justice through a critical lens, having asked, for example, how transitional justice might be relevant for the ongoing racial justice movements in the world. Interviewees agreed that the field has a lot to offer at this historical moment of transformation, but that the field also needs some […]
The VivaVoz programme
The VivaVoz programme will be a confluence of hundreds of voices from six communities in Colombia. The representatives, young community leaders with experience in remembrance and communication initiatives, share anecdotes, reflections and ideas from their regions that can contribute to ending and not repeating the armed conflict. The VivaVoz programme will be a confluence of […]
There is no blueprint
Vasuki Nesiah, Professor of Human Rights and International Law at New York University, deals with the tensions that transitional justice is facing between local knowledge and international expertise and speaks of the power of being ‘international’ in the practice of transitional justice. Vasuki Nesiah is Professor of Human Rights and International Law at the Gallatin […]