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Memory Work
Memory Work
Memory work focuses on the socio-cultural causes and consequences of violent conflicts. The core question is how a society should remember the violent past in order to support processes of reconciliation. This includes challenging social phenomena such as victimhood and heroisation, re-writing narratives of the past war, as well as publicly recognizing all victims and survivors of human rights violations. Memory work involves activities such as the construction of public memorials, the introduction of commemorative days, the re-writing of history books for schools and the establishing of war and peace museums.Contextual Reflections
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Memory Work
People having survived atrocities of the second World War, people having survived further prolongations of hate/war, never stopped speaking of those atrocities. Never exhausted their means, memories, trying to drag our attention to what had happened.
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