Publications
Additional publications are available on the Online Resource Center, an online forum where registered members can participate in discussion and access all the resources of the Coalition including publications of member Sites. ( Free registration required.)
For printed copies of our publications, please e-mail us at coalition@sitesofconscience.org.
Connecting Past and Present: 2008 Report of International Coalition Activities
7/2008
The International Coalition’s first annual report, Connecting Past and Present, describes the latest work of Sites of Conscience around the world: how they are opening dialogue on critical questions in their communities, and how they are working together to build an international movement to remember the past and confront contemporary issues.
Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action Report from 2007 International Conference 6/2008
What is the relationship between public memorialization and other mechanisms of transitional justice? Do memorials have a limited life span? What design decisions can help give them a longer life? Shouldn’t memory discriminate when it comes to human rights and democratic values? These are a sample of the questions raised and discussed in a brand new report from the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and FLACSO-Chile. The report puts forth the first set of recommendations for national and international frameworks to support Sites of Conscience as developed by the 130 participants from 20 countries in the international conference “Memorialization and Democracy: State Policy and Civic Action” which the Coalition, with Villa Grimaldi Peace Park, hosted in June 2007 in Santiago, Chile.
Public Historian
2/2008
In February 2008, the Public Historian, the official journal of the National Council of Public History in the United States, published a special issue on Sites of Conscience. The issue focuses on the ways in which society’s response to museums, memorials, and historical sites can grow from passive observation to active engagement.
Available through the website http://www.ucpressjournals.com/journal.asp?j=tph, the issue features the following essays from Sites of Conscience:
- The Reconstruction of Memory at Constitution Hill (Churchill Madikida, Lauren Segal, and Clive van den Berg)
- Places of Memory as a Tool for Education: The “Peace in Four Voices Summer Camps” at Monte Sole (Nadia Baiesi, Marzia Gigli, Elena Monicelli, and Roberta Pellizzoli)
- The Museum as a Democracy-Building Institution: Reflections on the Shared Journeys Program at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (Maggie Russell-Ciardi)
- The District Six Museum: An Ordinary People’s Place (Valmont Layne)
- Challenges on the Road to Memory (Maria Laura Guembe) and
- Activities of Terezín Memorial (Jan Munk).
Click here to read the foreword and browse the Table of Contents. For the complete publication, please visit http://www.ucpressjournals.com/journal.asp?j=tph.
The Power of Place
9/2004
The Power of Place, a publication of the New Tactics in Human Rights Project describes the founding of the Coalition and the premise of Sites of Conscience. It includes tactics for harnessing the power and potential of historic sites and museums to inspire dialogue and civic action and showcases the diverse strategies used by some of the Coalition’s founding sites.
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