Drawing on African contexts, the hub highlights forms of memory work that recover marginalised histories and challenge dominant accounts of the past. It also considers the role of local initiatives in shaping how histories of violence are understood and contested.
A central concern of this hub is examining the role that public platforms can contribute to a more critical understanding of the past. The hub seeks to support practical interventions such as the development of educational tools that promote inclusive and historically grounded approaches to justice.
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This hub focuses on the persistence of impunity for human rights violations in a number of African contexts. It examines why accountability processes have often failed to produce sustained change, despite formal commitments to justice.
This hub examines how societies engage with past violence and how these processes shape current debates on justice and accountability. It focuses on the politics of memory, including whose histories are recognised, whose are excluded, and how these choices are reflected in public narratives, heritage sites and archives.
