Living with a Legacy of Genocide: Dealing with the Past in Affected Communities in Guatemala and Bosnia-Herzegovina"

• Research unit: DIS
• Project number: 2007EDA03

Key words (English)

Community-based responses to mass violence, genocide prevention, dealing with the past and reconciliation

Short description (English)

The project focuses on strategies developed on the national and local level to address the legacy of genoide and mass violence in Guatemala and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It involves field research in affected communities supported by visual documentation

Project aims (English)

The project examines the way in which local communities respond to the legacy of violence in their midst on a social and individual level in an effort to determine the level of interaction, if any, with the mechanisms of transitional justice employed on a national level in the two countries

Abstract (English)

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Transfer and application (English)

The results of the project will be published in a volume of the swisspeace working papers and be presented at public events. The visual documentation will be exhibited in Guatemala and Bosnia-Herzegovina and in other locations upon request.