Translations:Addendum II/3/en

This guide presents a 10-step process for organizing  documents related to human rights violations and transitional justice. It is intended for civil society organizations that have little to no archival experience or that have never tried to salvage and organize the documents they have accumulated over many years of work. Organizations that already have a physical or digital archive will have completed most, if not all, of the suggestions proposed here.

The 10 steps correspond to three basic themes: the first is very practical and corresponds to the staff, space, and materials needed to organize the documents (steps 1 through 5); the second is more theoretical and requires thinking about document categories and subcategories that will provide the final archive with a logical structure (steps 6 through 8); and the third section addresses creating an inventory describing each document in the archive and providing basic treatment for the conservation of each document (steps 9 and 10).