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Collective Memory Of Past Human Rights Abuses-South Korea, Ñusta Carranza Ko
Collective Memory Of Past Human Rights Abuses-South Korea, Ñusta Carranza Ko
Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights
The discourse on transitional justice by academics and practitioners center upon a common understanding of the importance of truth-seeking or truth-telling, reparations, prosecutions, and other institutional reforms in addressing a state’s past abuses. Policies of memorialization complement these processes of transitional justice, with the production of collective memory and history that helps transitioning states from authoritarian pasts toward reconciliation.
This study builds on the growing interest in memory initiatives by bringing to light the integral and "visible" role memory practices have played in truth-seeking and reparations processes. Particularly, it focuses on the building of collective memory integrated in truth commission …