Archives of Human Rights and Historical Memory

该项目的重点是哥伦比亚，特别提到象征性赔偿，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意见、记录证词和保存这类材料的档案。在过渡时期，象征性赔偿的作用日益得到承认，与物质赔偿一样重要，因为它们有可能促进补救、促进团结、重组社区的社会结构、恢复受害者和幸存者的尊严。在这种情况下，人权档案和历史记忆可以发挥特别重要的作用，因为它们是记录冲突证词和经历的工具。此外，它们在哥伦比亚被正式承认为过渡司法机制之一，以确保对真相、正义、充分赔偿和不再犯受害者的保障。根据这些建议，我们的项目与四个建立了自己档案的非政府组织合作。我们将处理的档案往往支离破碎；往往存放在非官方目录或空间中；往往容易受到湿度和高温等环境因素造成的材料退化以及由于数字备份不足而造成的数字丢失的影响；由于一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馆长的威胁，档案处于危险之中；需要组织和保存。该项目旨在通过为这些资源的存档提供一个强有力的机制来满足这一需要。首先，我们将与这些非政府组织举行会议，以充分了解它们的需求，并开始制定我们建议的工具包的概念。这将涉及与他们的访谈和问卷调查，以及围绕他们在下列情况下遇到的问题进行更广泛的讨论：记录受害者的证词；核对证词；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，题为Memory Box：保护和保护人权和历史记忆档案工具包。这一工具包将包含教学材料和实用材料，包括如何举办记忆讲习班；如何举办档案讲习班；资源数字化的最佳做法；以及成功保存档案所需的基本要素。将编写该工具包的试行版本，然后与与我们合作开展这一项目的四个非政府组织一起启动和测试。在这一试点阶段，将与每个非政府组织举行一次活动，以测试工具包，讨论它将如何运作或如何根据它们的特定背景或需要进行调整，并指出对工具包进行修订的任何特殊关切或需要。随后，我们将根据在这些试点活动中获得的反馈，改进工具包，并制作最后版本。然后，我们将正式启动最后定稿的工具包，这将使这些和其他非政府组织能够制定管理其自身档案的最佳做法，为它们开始管理其自身的管理过程提供工具，并为其资源数字化提供最佳做法。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了解和社会利用这些档案和资源，我们将组织面向公众的活动，以使这些现有档案能够被看到、分享和社会利用。最后，我们将启动人权和历史记忆档案馆管理人员和馆长网络，以确保遗留和持续的影响。

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.