Innovation and Documentation in Transitional Justice

About this episode

The episode discusses the role of documentation in transitional justice and how innovations challenge traditional paradigms.

The new episode of the Justice Visions podcast turns the spotlight on the role of documentation in transitional justice. This theme will guide much of our future work as Tine Destrooper ’s project GROUNDOC “Innovation and documentation: Reconstructing the paradigm of transitional justice from the ground up” was awarded an ERC Grant. In this conversation Tine Destrooper, Brigitte Herremans, and Elke Evrard explore the centrality of documentation in TJ initiatives. They discuss how innovations in documentation practices – particularly those emerging from grassroots actors – challenge us to reimagine the TJ paradigm. Highlighting the politics of documentation, Elke Evrard emphasizes how community-based acts challenge conventional notions of evidence and foreground questions of narrative ownership. She also draws attention to the increasing role of new media and digital technologies in documentation processes. While these tools may democratize the landscape because they offer new possibilities for collecting, verifying, and preserving evidence, “the expertise and the technical knowledge that these tools require, can also reinforce certain existing power imbalances between who is…

People in this episode

Guests: Tine Destrooper, Brigitte Herremans, Elke Evrard

Topics covered

• transitional justice
• documentation
• innovation
• grassroots movements
• digital technologies

Keywords

• ERC Grant
• community-based acts
• narrative ownership
• new media

Mentioned in this episode

Products: digital technologies, documentation tools

Books & works: GROUNDOC, Innovation and documentation: Reconstructing the paradigm of transitional justice, an ERC Grant

Places: Syria, Palestine

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