Organizations and Websites
Source: http://www.districtsix.co.za/frames.htmEstablished in December 1994, the museum works with the memories of the experiences of the forcible removals from the Sixth Municipal District of Cape Town and with the history of forced removals more generally. The website provides information about the museum, its exhibits and programs, and personal stories of a walk through District Six.
Source: http://www.healingthroughremembering.org/Healing Through Remembering is an extensive cross-community project made up of a range of individual members holding different political perspectives. They have come together over the last five years to focus on the issue of how to deal with the past relating to the conflict in and about Northern Ireland. In June 2002, a report was published documenting the findings of a public consultation process on how Northern Ireland, and those affected both in and out of Northern Ireland, could remember and deal with the past, and in so doing move towards healing. In total, 108 submissions were received by the project from individuals and organizations. The report highlights what those who wrote in felt would be useful methods for dealing with the past. The report also includes the six detailed recommendations made by the Project Board. They form together a collection of mechanisms and strategies to promote healing through remembering.
Source: http://www.sitesofconscience.org A worldwide network of ‘sites of conscience’ or historic sites dedicated to remembering past struggles for justice and addressing their contemporary legacies. The Coalition provides member sites with direct funding for civic engagement programs; organizes learning exchanges; and conducts strategic advocacy for sites and the ‘sites of conscience’ movement. The website provides links to ‘sites of conscience’, tools and resources.
Source: http://www.kigalimemorialcentre.org/old/index.htmlThe Centre was opened on the 10th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, in April 2004. The website provides information about the centre and memorials in Rwanda, educational and historical information about the Rwandan genocide, access to relevant online documents and journals, and stories of survivors.
Source: http://www.wmd.org/wbdo/aug-sep06.htmlA global network of democrats, including activists, practitioners, academics, policy makers, and funders, who have come together to cooperate in the promotion of democracy. The website includes information on memory projects around the world, lists projects and provides links to various case studies and interviews.
Source: http://www.cdsee.org/ CDRSEE is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that seeks to foster democratic, pluralist, and peaceful societies in Southeast Europe by advocating principles of social responsibility, sustainable development, and reconciliation among the peoples in the region. These goals are accomplished via seminars, conferences, research projects, exchange programs, opinion polls, and publications.
Source: http://www.cshc.ubc.ca/ The Centre sponsors research in the field of historical consciousness, serves as a base for Canadian and international scholars, both as researchers and as visiting professors and lecturers. It also establishes links with schools, museums, and the broader community for discussion and dissemination of research projects. This website provides teaching resources such as curricula related to the study of historical consciousness, links to bibliographies and papers, as well as a database containing the contact information of researchers working in this field.
Source: http://www.euroclio.eu Supported by the Council of Europe, delegates from 14 countries, representing 18 History Teachers Associations, decided in 1992 to establish EUROCLIO, the European organization for history education. This organization supports the learning and teaching of history by sharing and exchanging knowledge and professional experience. In 1993, EUROCLIO (the European Standing Conference of History Teachers´ Associations) was officially founded. During the following years, the organization grew rapidly and in 2006 represented 63 member organizations from 46 (mostly) European countries. EUROCLIO connects 40,000 historians and history educators in primary, secondary education and higher educational institutes. The overall aim is to promote and support the development of history education so that it strengthens peace, stability, democracy and critical thinking. This website provides access to invaluable information, including numerous publications by EUROCLIO and other organizations and a wide array of teaching materials.
Source: http://www.facinghistory.org/ FHO is an international educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the moral choices they confront in their own lives. The website provides detailed information about the organization’s work and its various classroom learning strategies and tools.
Source: http://www.gei.deThe Institute seeks to study the international comparison of social images of the self, the ‘other’ and the enemy as conveyed in textbooks and other educational media relevant to school practice. Of particular emphasis are subjects inspiring a sense of meaning and identity, such as history, geography, politics and social studies. The Institute serves as a forum for academics, educational experts and practitioners from a variety of countries and disciplines who analyze the emergence and effects of such images, develop concepts for dealing with them appropriately and seek ways to implement these on a practical level in the classroom.
Source: http://www.salzburgseminar.org/ihjr/ IHJR, a project of the Salzburg Global Seminar, works with educational and public policy institutions to organize and sponsor historical discourses in pursuit of accountability, acknowledgement, and the resolution of historical disputes. The website provides access to publications and reports about IHJR’s work on the Middle East, the Balkans, Uganda, and Polish-Jewish relations.
Source: http://www.ineesite.org/ INEE is a global, open network of non-governmental organizations, UN agencies, donors, practitioners, researchers and individuals from affected populations working together within a humanitarian and development framework to ensure the right to education in emergencies and post-crisis reconstruction. The website offers a wealth of policy- and practitioner-oriented information on education in emergency, conflict-affected, and post-conflict environments.
Source: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/history/facstaff/Ingrao/si/scholars.htm The Initiative has brought together around 250 scholars from the Balkans and beyond to address controversial topics, aims to fill gaps in historical knowledge and write a shared history of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. The research team reports on specific topics (that is, various historical controversies in modern Balkan history) can be found on the website.
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