SURVIVORS AND CONFLICT-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
GIJTR’s expertise in memorialization equips survivors and affected communities with new capacities to share their experiences of conflict through public exhibitions, podcasts, memorials and memory sites, among other programs, resulting in reduced stigma, increased empathy and deepened allyship. In this way, memorialization activities serve as a form of symbolic reparations, allowing victims to gain recognition and impact advocacy efforts on their own behalf.
A GIJTR-facilitated art exhibit in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh in March 2022. The artworks were created by refugees themselves based on their memories and their hopes for the future.
A Cambodian survivor shares his experience with a group of South Sudanese activists during a GIJTR-sponsored exchange trip for a documentation project in South Sudan.
An image from the Herstories Archive, an ICSC member and GIJTR local partner that collected the personal narratives of mothers from different regions in Sri Lanka after the civil war there (1983-2009). Photo credit: The Herstories Archive
Grounded in its strength as a global, trauma- informed Consortium, GIJTR transforms service provisions for victims through the establishment of referral networks that provide survivors and affected communities with a range of supports from physical and mental healthcare to microcredit financing.
By incorporating atrocity prevention and social cohesion into its programming, specifically by making visible root causes of past violence as the foundation for prevention of recurrence, GIJTR’s responsive, context-specific work reduces violence and promotes peacebuilding.
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From the Ground Up GIJTR’s Impact: Victims and Conflict-Affected Communities
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