Archives of Human Rights and Historical Memory

人权和历史记忆档案

• 批准号: AH/T007885/1
• 负责人: Claire Taylor
• 金额: $ 10.82万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT007885%2F1
• 关键词: Archives; Human; Rights; Historical; Memory

This project focuses on Colombia, with specific reference to symbolic reparations, which are a fundamental part of the peace process. Symbolic reparation for human rights abuses includes the act of listening to victims, the recording of testimonies, and the preservation of archives of this material. The role of symbolic reparations in transitional contexts is increasingly being recognised as just as important as material reparations, due to their potential to promote redress, foster solidarity, reweave a community's social fabric, and restore the dignity of victims and survivors.Within this context, archives of human rights and historical memory have a particularly important role to play, given that they are instruments for recording testimony and experiences of the conflict. Moreover, they are formally recognized in Colombia as one of the mechanisms for transitional justice, to ensure the guarantees for the victims of truth, justice, full reparation and non-repetition.Informed by these recommendations, our project engages with four NGOs which have created their own archives. The archives with which we will work are often fragmented; are often housed in unofficial catalogues or spaces; are often vulnerable, both to material deterioration, due to environmental factors such as humidity and heat, and to digital loss, due to inadequate digital backups; are at risk due to the continuation of armed conflict in some areas, and threats to local community leaders and curators of these same archives; and are in need of organization and preservation. This project aims to address this need by providing a robust mechanism for the archiving of these resources. We do so through a tailored, participatory approach, in which we work with the NGOs in a genuinely collaborative manner throughout.Firstly, we will undertake meetings with these NGOs to understand fully their needs, and start to develop the concepts informing our proposed toolkit. This will involve interviews and questionnaires with them, as well as wider discussion, around the issues they have encountered when: recording testimony from victims; collating testimonies; and preserving testimony and other memory materials. Following on from this, we will design and develop a toolkit, entitled The Memory Box: Toolkit for the Curation and Preservation of Human Rights and Historical Memory Archives. This toolkit will contain pedagogical and practical materials, encompassing how to undertake memory workshops; how to undertake archiving workshops; best practice for the digitization of resources; and the basic elements needed for successful archival preservation. A pilot version of this toolkit will be prepared, and then launched and tested with the four NGOs collaborating with us on this project. At this pilot stage, an event will be held with each NGO to test out the toolkit, discuss how it would work or be adapted for their particular context or needs, and flag up any particular concerns or needs for amendment to the toolkit.Subsequently, building on the feedback gained at these pilot events, we will refine the toolkit, and produce the finalized version. We will then formally launch the finalized toolkit, which will enable these and other NGOs to develop best practice for the management of their own archives, the tools for them to begin to manage their own processes of curation, and the best practice for the digitization of their resources.An important next step in our project is to set in train a series of steps to ensure the understanding of, and societal use of, these archives and resources within the context of the armed conflict in Colombia, and we will organize public-facing events to enable the visibility, sharing and societal use of these existing archives. Finally, we will launch a network of managers and curators of Human Rights and Historical Memory Archives to ensure legacy and continuing impact.

该项目以哥伦比亚为重点，具体涉及象征性赔偿，这是和平进程的一个基本部分。对侵犯人权行为的象征性赔偿包括听取受害者的证词、记录证词和保存这些材料的档案。在过渡时期，象征性赔偿的作用越来越被认为与物质赔偿一样重要，因为它们有可能促进补救、促进团结、重新编织社区的社会结构，并恢复受害者和幸存者的尊严。在这方面，人权和历史记忆档案可以发挥特别重要的作用，因为它们是记录冲突的证词和经验的工具。此外，它们在哥伦比亚被正式承认为过渡时期司法机制之一，以确保向受害者提供真相、正义、充分赔偿和不再发生的保障。根据这些建议，我们的项目与四个非政府组织合作，他们建立了自己的档案。我们将要处理的档案往往是碎片化的；通常被安置在非官方的目录或空间中；由于环境因素（如湿度和热量）导致的材料变质，以及由于数字备份不足导致的数字丢失，通常都很脆弱；由于某些地区持续的武装冲突，以及对当地社区领导人和这些档案的策展人的威胁而处于危险之中；需要组织和保存。这个项目旨在通过为这些资源的存档提供一个健壮的机制来解决这一需求。我们通过一种有针对性的、参与性的方法来做到这一点，在整个过程中，我们以真正合作的方式与非政府组织合作。首先，我们将与这些非政府组织举行会议，以充分了解他们的需求，并开始发展概念，为我们提出的工具包提供信息。这将包括对他们进行访谈和问卷调查，以及围绕他们在以下情况下遇到的问题进行更广泛的讨论：记录受害者的证词；整理的法度;保存证词和其他记忆材料。在此基础上，我们将设计和开发一个工具包，名为“记忆盒子：人权和历史记忆档案的管理和保存工具包”。该工具包将包含教学和实用材料，包括如何举办记忆讲习班；如何开展存档工作坊；资源数字化的最佳实践；以及成功保存档案所需的基本要素。我们将准备这个工具包的试点版本，然后在与我们合作的四个非政府组织中发布和测试。在这个试点阶段，将与每个非政府组织一起举办一个活动来测试工具包，讨论它如何工作或适应他们的特定环境或需求，并标记任何特别关注或需要修改工具包。随后，基于在这些试验事件中获得的反馈，我们将改进工具包，并生成最终版本。然后，我们将正式发布最终的工具包，这将使这些非政府组织和其他非政府组织能够制定管理自己档案的最佳实践，他们开始管理自己的策展过程的工具，以及他们资源数字化的最佳实践。我们项目的下一个重要步骤是制定一系列步骤，以确保在哥伦比亚武装冲突的背景下对这些档案和资源的理解和社会利用，我们将组织面向公众的活动，使这些现有档案的可见性、共享和社会利用成为可能。最后，我们将启动一个由人权和历史记忆档案管理者和策展人组成的网络，以确保遗产和持续影响。

项目成果

Archives of Human Rights and Historical Memory: An Analysis of Archival Practices 'From Below' in Four NGOs in Colombia

人权档案和历史记忆：哥伦比亚四个非政府组织“自下而上”的档案实践分析

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies:
• 作者: Taylor C

Manual ArchiCom: Aportes prácticos para archivos comunitarios de derechos humanos

手册 ArchiCom：人类社区档案的实践

• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Taylor C