Documentation and Archiving Practices in the contexts of Peru, Syria and Sudan

Documentation and Archiving Practices in the contexts of Peru, Syria and Sudan

From Justice Visions by Human Rights Centre - UGent

June 18, 2025 · 31 min

About this episode

The episode discusses documentation and archiving practices in conflict contexts with researchers Eva Willems and Mina Ibrahim.

In this new episode of the mini-series on documentation, we continue the conversation on documentation and archiving practices together with Eva Willems and Mina Ibrahim. Eva Willems is a post-doctoral researcher at the History Department and the Department of Conflict and Development Studies of Ghent University. She examines how peasant militias in Peru use archives to organize life amid conflict. Mina Ibrahim is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg and a visiting professor at the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University. He builds archives to hold on to family memories and cope with ongoing displacement. In the conversation with Kim Baudewijns, Eva and Mina reflect on how the distinction between documentationand archiving practices is informed by shifting temporalities. Documentation, as Eva demonstrates, “has a very pragmatic aspect of organizing the war, of organizing military actions, of organizing social cohesion. But archiving has this aspect of organizing the documentation in a way that it can be preserved for the future.” Another key issue emerging from the conversation is the importance of considering…

People in this episode

Host: Kim Baudewijns

Guests: Eva Willems, Mina Ibrahim

Topics covered

  • documentation
  • archiving
  • Peru
  • Syria
  • Sudan
  • conflict studies

Keywords

  • military actions
  • social cohesion
  • temporalities

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Peru, Syria, Sudan, Europe

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