Memory as an instrument for peace, reconciliation and common living.

Conflicts, abuses, repression and human rights violations always leave a bitter taste when proper mourning to achieve personal or communal healing is cutoff by indifference, and politics of amnesia...

UMAM: Documenting the past to build the future

UMAM Documentation and Research (UMAM D&R) was founded in Beirut, Lebanon as a non-profit civil company in 2004 and received official recognition as a non-governmental organization (NGO) by the Lebanese Ministry of Interior and Municipalities in 2005...

War and memory: the dilemma of past and present

It has been more than 20 years since the end of the Lebanese civil war, and yet the country is still far from achieving reconciliation. During the past two decades the Lebanese State has been heavily trying to force a war amnesia with the reconstruction plans, the denial of responsibility of the war, fortified by a general amnesty law, no existent monuments or museum of the civil war...

Dealing with the legacy of the past in Lebanon

In the aftermath of massive human rights abuses, victims have well established rights to see the perpetrators punished, to know the truth, and to receive reparations. Because systemic human rights violations affect not just the direct victims, but society as a whole, in addition to satisfying these obligations, States have duties to guarantee...

Transitional Justice Beyond the Normative, Mémoires de guerres au Liban

An article published by Oxford’s International journal of Transitional Justice, July 2011. The article argues that narratives of transitional justice have been placed on a somewhat unexamined pedestal in the social sciences and the humanities...

In this issue: The Danish Refugee Council launched a report... UNHCR held the “Talent without Borders” show... The Sunflower Theater hosted an event entitled... Kafa & Youth of the East hosted a talk... In partnership with the Goethe-Institute Lebanon, Issam Fares Institute hosted a two-day...

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