At the end of the Cold War and with the collapse of the Soviet empire in Central and Eastern Europe, it was not necessarily a surprise to see a sweeping attack on the icons of the Soviet regime, especially in countries that considered themselves to have been occupied by the …
Read Elisabeth Zerofsky’s article, which appears in the New Yorker, in which she explores how the debate about Poland’s past has revealed divergent views of its future.
Hatidza Mehmedovic, 65, Dies; Spoke Out for Bosnia Massacre Victims By Barbara Surk (NEW YORK TIMES) Hatidza Mehmedovic, a fearless campaigner for …
Greetings to all of our colleagues in the Historical Justice and Memory Network! We are happy to present the newest issue of our series of …
Check out the essay by Network board member Katharine McGregor and Vera Mackie. Source: History and Memory, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring/Summer …
An article in the New York Times reports on a historic apology.
Rana Tanveer, a human rights activist in Pakistan and an alumnus of the Historical Dialogue and Accountability program at Columbia University, was …
Civil Rights Defenders is pleased to announce that the Turkish human rights defender Murat Çelikkan has been awarded the Civil Rights Defender …
From the Free Osman Kavala Website: Prof. Ayşe Buğra wrote a letter to her husband Osman Kavala who is now in prison. …
As Columbia University faculty engaged in international scholarship and teaching, we are deeply concerned about the arrest of Osman Kavala, one of …