The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience’s 2022 project Correcting the Record: Building Inclusive, Equitable and Engaged Societies One Narrative at a Time aimed to expand the impact of Sites of Conscience in countering hatred, violence, and discrimination in their societies by fostering more inclusive historical narratives. Believing change must come from within, the year-long initiative equipped participating Sites of Conscience with the skills, partnerships, knowledge, and tools to recalibrate their organization’s practices, approaches, and/or repositories (including, but not limited to, archives, documentation centers and museum interpretive plans) in order to amplify marginalized voices, promote more inclusive and equitable public narratives, and mitigate societal discrimination and exclusion.

Correcting the Record project partners included six Sites of Conscience from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, who piloted and tested the Correcting the Record methodology and helped document the learnings of their respective processes to ensure global best practice, accessibility and replicability. Over eight months, each project partner developed a case study – a set of actions carried out to address the gaps in their organization’s practices, approaches and/or repositories, while piloting the methodology – and assessed its impact in countering discrimination, hatred and violence in their communities by fostering more inclusive historical narratives. In this, they were supported by ICSC staff and two mentors, Radhika Hettiarachchi and Lebogang Marishane, from Sites of Conscience in Sri Lanka and South Africa respectively.