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- PublicationDocumentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions(2024)
; ; Ibhawoh, BonnyDocumentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions highlights the need for post-conflict societies to have access to - and to use – Truth Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs’) documentation to achieve reconciliation and to work towards a democratic society. Including international contributions from a range of disciplines, the volume discusses the challenges that surround TRCs’ documentation. Considering the impact of the politicization of documentation, chapters also highlight the lack of political will to democratize information, the lack of dissemination and the preservation infrastructures that hinder access and its effective use and re-use. Arguing that TRCs’ documentation should be used to inform policy, improve governance and to promote justice, healing and reconciliation, the volume considers the ethical challenges involved in disseminating such information. Contributing authors argue that information professionals should play a major role in the planning for the TRCs’ information management infrastructures, if they are to facilitate access, effectively manage the generated documentation, deal with preservation of the compound records and promote the dissemination of the TRC findings. Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions demonstrates that TRCs’ documentation provides validation of human rights violations and that it helps to promote an understanding of the causes of conflict. As such, it will be essential reading for academics and students working in Archival Studies, Information Science, History, Transitional Justice, and Peace and Conflict Studies.27 - PublicationLes raisons de la haine: Histoire d'une passion dans la France du premier XVII SiècleDiagnostiquer, décrypter et domestiquer les passions de l’âme, ce fut l’obsession des médecins, des lettrés, des théologiens, des hommes d’Eglise et d’Etat en ce premier XVIIe siècle. La hantise d’une reprise des guerres civiles, après un demi-siècle de déchirements, explique la naissance d’une science et d’une anthropologie nouvelles des passions. La haine est identifiée comme l’origine de la violence fratricide dans la cité. Capables de générer une émotion voire une haine publique, telle la xénophobie, les médias constituent un nouvel outil politique redoutable et redouté. Les Raisons de la haine examinent les sciences mécaniques et politiques des passions, leur usage, leur instrumentalisation et leur domestication et éclairent les rouages de cette fabrique publique de la haine.
83 - PublicationRecords management and archiving in UAE: a beginner's handbookRecords management is the key to unlocking greater potential in an institution's execution of its overall mandate. Despite the indisputable role that records management play in promoting service delivery, productivity, good governance, and accountability among many other functions, there has been a continued invisibility on the importance of formally trained records and information management professionals. A preliminary survey of the status quo in the United Arab Emirates shows that even though many organizations do not have formally trained personnel in records management and archival administration, there is a high level of appreciation on the need to meet international best practice in records and information management through receiving formal training among other ways. Instead of having trained records management practitioners, many institutions are using the expert services of the National Library and Archives of UAE while others resort to having their records management needs taken care of by private consultancy companies. Although this is not bad practice, the ideal situation would be to have onsite records management professionals who are able to ensure that the organization's records management needs are fully met. In this respect, it is prudent to acknowledge the collaborative effort made by the Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and the National Archives of UAE, who took the initiative to professionalize records management through establishing training programmes in records management and archival science at Certificate, Bachelor's, and Masters' degree levels. The initiative is a giant step towards professionalizing records management and archiving in UAE and the Gulf region.
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