The project will reconstruct and digitally preserve the visual legacy of life in Srebrenica both for research and commemoration purposes, in response to a request from the community of survivors. Close collaboration with both the survivor community and the veterans is part of the construction of the archive as a participatory archiving practice, which will result in access for survivors to the photo database and contribute to the process of sense making of war memories for veterans, and create an interface to open up the archive for academic research purposes. Based on a selection of the photos, the project will reconstruct and reconceptualize the history and memory of Srebrenica as potential history, reflecting its concern both for the past and the future. The past: it will analyse how visual sources can enhance understanding of the processes, such as dehumanization, that led to mass violence. The future: opening up the visual memory of Srebrenica, it will create a framework both for research and commemoration purposes, in which multiple perspectives on the genocide can encounter each other.

Team and partners

• Erna Rijsdijk
• Netherlands Defence Academy
• Faculty of Military Sciences
• UvA-ARTES
• Guido Snel

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