Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation

Canadian aboriginal leaders and residential school survivor groups are calling for the resignation of the Owen Young, lawyer and chief consul of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation commission, reported CBCNEWS. This is due to Mr. Young's role as a governmental prosecutor in a court case against native residents earlier this year; many native leaders question whether there is a potential conflict of interest, as this commission is creating an account of the Canadian schooling system, and past harm towards aboriginal peoples.

This also comes in the wake of criticism of the Canadian government's possible over-involvement in the truth commission.

The nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations compiled an interview with Stewart M. Patrick, a former member of the United States' State Department's Policy Planning staff. Mr. Patrick summarizes many of the issues that International Criminal Courts face, along with an examination of the United States of America's recent actions (most notably "un-signing" the Roman Statute). Click here for the article.

Finally, the AP reports that Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has stated that his government will “never deal” with the ICC. The ICC recently indicted President al-Bashir. Reuters reports that nearly 120 developing nations recently stated that they fear that any attempt to prosecute President al-Bashir could result in further destabilization of Sudan and the surronding region, and may also impede future reconciliation.

The International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience, is a network of historic site museums in many different parts of the world, at many stages of development, presenting and interpreting a wide variety of historic issues, events and people. We hold in common the belief that it is the obligation of historic sites to assist the public in drawing connections between the history of our site and its contemporary implications. We view stimulating dialogue on pressing social issues and promoting humanitarian and democratic values as a primary function.

Through its first-of-its-kind web program, the Coalition works with leading international human rights and social welfare organizations to bring the lessons of the past to bear on contemporary struggles. Web visitors tour member historic sites and explore where in the world the issues they raise are still unresolved. Participating organizations include Human Rights Watch, International Center for Transitional Justice, Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights, the RFK Center for Human Rights, and Amnesty International.

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA): Reconciliation after Violent Conflict

Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg

International Center for Transitional Justice

Glencree Centre for Reconciliation, Ireland

Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation

Palestinian-Israeli website on the Intifada

Northern Ireland

The Crimes of War Project

Center for Dialogue, Auschwitz

National Security Archives Project

Georg Eckert Institute

Institute for Reconciliation, Guernica

South Africa

Karta, Russia

Karta A Polish NGO, which sponsors historical research of the communist period both in a national and international context, the latter particularly in collaboration with NGOs in other countries in the former communist bloc, such as Memorial in Russia.

Legacy of Absence Project

Spanish site dedicated to recovering the memory of the civil war (Asociación Española para la recuperación de al memoria histórica, ARMH)

Pogranicze, Poland

Brama Grodzka/Teatr NN, Lublin

Memorial, Russia

Center for Documentation and Research on Japan’s War Responsibility

Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeastern Europe

Aktion Suhnezeichen Friedensdienste

Text of the Bloomfield Report, 1998, on the victims of the Northern Ireland Troubles

South African History Project

Institut Pami_ci Narodi—Institute for National Memory, Poland

WPA-era collection of narratives of former slaves

Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati

Jewish Museum, Warsaw

INCORE – International Conflict Research (University of Ulster and United Nations University)

Centre for the Study of Forgiveness and Reconciliation, Coventry University

Carnegie Council

United States Institute for Peace – Truth Commissions Digital Collection

Peace Research Institute in the Middle East

Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR)

Institute for healing of memories

Cape Town Holocaust Centre

Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project

Southern Truth and Reconciliation

Facing History and Ourselves

Peru

Report of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Tulsa Race Riot Commission, Tulsa, OK

Bergier Commission/Swiss Holocaust Era Assets

Switzerland, Independent Commissions of Experts

Strategic Choices in the Design of Truth CommissionsA joint project of Search for Common Ground and the Program on Negotiation at Harvard University Law School.

Chile

Ford Foundation – Selected bibliography on Truth commissions and transitional justice

TRUTH COMMISSIONS: A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT An Interdisciplinary Discussion Held at Harvard Law School in May 1996

Healing through Remembering, set up after consultation with Alex Boraine and TRC

Reconciliation Australia

Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation Archive

Several organizations have been established to look at history and its role in our society. One with a specific mandate that focuses on history education may be a useful resource for those of you seeking to use history education to promote reconciliation:

Facing History and Ourselves is based on the belief that education in a democracy must be what Alexis de Tocqueville called "an apprenticeship in liberty." Facing History helps students find meaning in the past and recognize the need for participation and responsible decision making.

Facing History & Ourselves offers teachers and others in the community occasions to study the past, explore new ideas and approaches, and develop practical models for civic engagement that link history to the challenges of an increasingly interconnected world and the choices that young people make daily.