About this Wiki Manual

Released in 2023, this publication, Giving Life to Memory: A Manual for Human Rights Civil Society Organizations on Creating and Preserving Digital Archives, aims to support civil society actors in creating and utilizing digital archives to support transitional justice mechanisms and advance the broader transitional justice goals of truth-telling, justice and accountability, memorialization, and non-recurrence. The manual combines learnings and recommendations from a two-year project on digital archiving, led by Consortium partners the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC), Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala (FAFG), Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG) and Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam), as well as input and expertise generously shared by over 60 civil society organizations who participated in this initiative.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PRINCIPAL AUTHORS

Elsana Nurkovic and Nenad Golcevski

CONTRIBUTORS

Marc Drouin

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

Predrag Miletic, HLC

Sarah Case, ICSC

Dario Colmenares, ICSC

Bethany Houghton, PILPG

Marc Drouin, FAFG

In addition, the Consortium partners would like to express their deep appreciation to the civil society organizations who contributed their time and insights to this manual by sharing challenges, lessons learned and best practices from their experiences in digital archiving. A list of these organizations can be found in Addendum V.

The Consortium partners would like to express their particular thanks to the four civil society organizations who helped to pilot and refine an earlier draft of this manual: l’Association des victimes, parent et amis du 28 septembre 2009 (Guinea), La Coordinadora Nacional de Viudas de Guatemala (Guatemala), La Asociación de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos de Guatemala (Guatemela), and Comision Colombiana de Juristas (Colombia).

Learn more at www.gijtr.org.