1st Edition

Transitional Justice Archives Documenting Human Rights Violations in Latin America

Edited By Anita Ferrara, Beatrice Canossi Copyright 2025
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Latin America has amassed comprehensive expertise in generating, managing, and providing access to archives documenting widespread human rights violations. This book explores and traces the multiple pathways that led to the creation and production of transitional justice archives in selected Latin American countries. Examining how transitional justice mechanisms have gathered and organised... Read more

Introduction: Transitional Justice Archives: Documenting Human Rights Violations in Latin America

Anita Ferrara and Beatrice Canossi

Part I

Chapter 1. From a Dangerous to a Usable Past

Trudy Huskamp Peterson

Chapter 2. The Archives about the System of Forced Disappearance of Persons in Argentina

Emilio Crenzel

Chapter 3. The Impact and Role of the Truth Commission Archives in Chile

Anita Ferrara

Chapter 4. The Exhibition of Court Records at the Museum of Memory in Chile: When Law Meets Memory

Courtney Curran

Chapter 5. The Documentation Unit at The Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

Ruth Elena Borja Santa Cruz

Part II

Chapter 6. The Role of Transitional Justice Archives in Supporting Justice, Reconciliation, and Memory in Colombia

Flor Alba Romero Medina

Chapter 7. The Documentary Collection of the Truth Commission of Colombia: An Unprecedented Experience in Transitional Justice Archives

Maria Prada Ramírez and Andrés Medina Valencia

Chapter 8. The Precautionary Measures of the JEP and the DAS Archives: Fostering Public Dialogue on the Role of Secret Archives in the Colombian Armed Conflict

Oscar Parra-Vera, Natalia Andrea Herrera Gálvez, Aurora Yezzenia Ávila-Quintero

Chapter 9. Traces of Disappearance: A Groundbreaking Archive of Transitional Justice, from Investigation to Exhibition

Fernanda Barbosa Dos Santos and Folco Zaffalon

Biography

Anita Ferrara is an assistant professor at the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), University of Galway.

Beatrice Canossi is a research fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, School of Law.