Themes

Prevention

Choeung Ek, Center of Genocide Crimes Parque de la Memoria Terror Háza Múzeum (House of Terror Museum) Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes

Never Again: Memorials and Prevention

Over the course of the past fifty years, an increasingly global interest in constructing memorials to genocide and mass atrocity has emerged. This article will explore…

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Design Competitions

Design Competitions

Before any memorial to mass atrocity becomes a physical reality, the process that precedes it is often long, difficult, highly political, and mostly invisible to the public. In many cases, the process takes the form of a formal design competition…

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Art & Architecture

Art and Architecture

What is the difference between public memorials and public art? The line between them can be hard to find…

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Tourism

Tourism and Memory Sites

Tourism is typically associated with pleasure and fun, vacation and escape. What happens, then, when a memorial to mass atrocity becomes a tourist site? In…

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