Researching, Sharing

The @MVRColombia ethos is to foster collaborative working, joint research, peer review and support, co-publication, knowledge-exchange with professionals from the museum sector, education, digital arts, human rights; and to create and share platforms with individuals and groups – academic, non-academic, artistic, activist - who contribute to knowledge, memory, visibility, and just representation of victims of armed conflict in Colombia.

Women Protagonists in Peacebuilding Processes: case studies from Colombia

@MVRColombia research assistant Lina Remolina of the UPTC University, Colombia, announces this volume of case studies of women’s social and political agency in the peace process, edited by @MVRColombia Co-Investigator and Director of the UPTC Diploma in Human Rights, Genders, Memory and Peacebuilding in Colombia, Dr. Celina de Jesus Trimiño Velásquez.

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Co-Creation, Digital Art and Agency: Experiences from a Co-created Digital Artwork Project in Colombia

A defining characteristic of @MVRColombia is artistic co-creation with women victims of the Colombian conflict, to increase visibility, acknowledgement, and public awareness. Traditional and innovative media and skills form part of the processes, discussed in this co-authored article by the MVR research team.

Archives of Human Rights and Historical Memory: An Analysis of Archival Practices ‘From Below’ in Four NGOs in Colombia

@MVRColombia research impact project #ArchiCom supports a network of community human rights archives. Read our peer-reviewed research on the condition and needs of grassroots custodians of human rights documentation, in the ‘Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies’, published by Yale University.

The ArchiCom Manual

The ArchiCom Manual is an interactive, illustrated handbook that translates specialist archival practice into an accessible format, for grassroots volunteers safeguarding human rights material in precarious situations.

MVR welcomes feedback and support from specialists to continue supporting community archivists of human rights – contact MVRColombia@liverpool.ac.uk.