From Charlottesville to Cape Town, from Santiago to Sydney, we have recently witnessed
protesters demanding that symbols of racist or colonial pasts be dismantled and that we talk …

This chapter introduces the book's central question: how does a memorial museum
dedicated to past violence contribute to democracy? The response draws on survivor …

In recent years, the world has been shaken by numerous events that have caused and
continue to cause massive human suffering, from the COVID-19 pandemic to intrastate and …

Violent conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been devastating for civilians,
and the human rights violations suffered by victims have long-lasting effects. The need for …

In contrast to prosecuting and punishing committed acts of genocide, the Genocide
Convention is silent as to means of preventing future acts. Today it is generally accepted that …

Contemporary scholarship overwhelmingly suggests that political elites cannot be trusted to
initiate and lead reconciliation processes, for various reasons such as the manipulation of …

Few places are more notorious for civil rights–era violence than Philadelphia, Mississippi,
the site of the 1964" Mississippi Burning" murders. Yet in a striking turn of events …

In Infrastructures of Impunity Elizabeth F. Drexler argues that the creation and persistence of
impunity for the perpetrators of the Cold War Indonesian genocide (1965–66) is not only a …

As transitional justice has grown as a field and as an international mandate in post-atrocity
contexts over the past several decades, the memorialization of past atrocities through the …

This paper explores meso-level approaches to atrocity prevention that incorporate a wider
array of local expertise at all stages, from early warning to transitional justice. Specifically …