A sense of shared history is a precious, and vital, part of belonging to a community. But narratives of the past can also be distorted and employed as propaganda, creating the illusion that conflict is the natural state between groups, and thus laying the ground for repeated conflict - Flavia Pansieri, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Pablo de Greiff, the SR on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence discussed the lack of access to archives, the limitations to freedom of expression and opinion as well as the lack of design of policies concerning memorialization. Further, he encouraged member states to renew their efforts to overcome some of these limitations. Re-watch #HRC27s panel discussion on history teaching and memoralisation porcesses or read more about it here: unog.ch/unog/website/news_media.nsf/(httpNewsByYear_en)/AC7D87329ED85FEEC1257D4E00378049?OpenDocument
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:41:03 +0000
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