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November 5, 2024

Museums Strengthen Democracy

The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience Awarded Grant to Strengthen Museum and Heritage Sites in Ukraine With funding from the State Department’s Ukraine Cultural…

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January 28, 2016

New Members of the Coalition

  The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience is honored to welcome its newest members. For more information, or to renew your membership, please click here….

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April 25, 2016

New Members of the Coalition

The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience has welcomed four new members in recent months. Please visit here for more information, or to renew your membership.  …

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August 28, 2024

Open Seat Training

RSVP Now! For twenty-five years, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience has helped museums, historic sites and other public spaces become dynamic centers for…

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July 20, 2016

Project Support Fund Awardees

2016 – Round 2 Getting a new public program off the ground requires funds, technical know-how, and promotional marketing. The Coalition’s Project Support Fund gives members…

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March 15, 2017

Project Support Fund Awardees

2017 – Round 1 The Coalition is pleased to announce that the winners of the 2017 Project Support Fund, Round 1 are: Kdei Karuna (Cambodia), the Matilda…

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May 16, 2019

Project Support Fund Now Open

The Coalition is pleased to announce that applications for its 2019 Project Support Fund are now being accepted, with the consultation period taking place from…

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December 14, 2023

Racism and the Making of Atrocities 

In December 2023, ICSC’s Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation held a three-day workshop in Rio de Janeiro that convened nearly fifty policy makers, civil society representatives, academics and survivors working in the fields of transitional justice, peacebuilding and racial justice to develop a set a recommendations on addressing racism as a risk factor for atrocity crimes that can be used by states, international fora such as the United Nations, as well as civil society at local, national and international levels.

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April 25, 2016

Reclaiming Colonia Dignidad

By Margarita Romero President of Asociación por la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos Colonia Dignidad Silence and secrecy are part and parcel of torture. Perpetrators…

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October 4, 2022

Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall

The Coalition’s Kassidy Charles recently talked with Krista McCracken, a researcher and curator at the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, a Site of Conscience in Ontario, to learn more about the site’s commitment to Indigenous-driven, decolonized history practice.

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August 10, 2021

Remembering Sergei Kovalev

It is with great sadness that we at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience note that prominent human rights defender, Soviet dissident, and one…

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December 9, 2019

Rethinking the Landscape: Haudenosaunee Women

How can museums, historical societies and local communities deepen and richen their understanding of Haudenosaunee culture and develop tools for revisioning exhibitions, programs and public…

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February 10, 2021

Revisiter le Rwanda

Créé en octobre 2017 par des réfugiés burundais vivant au Rwanda, Site of Conscience Forum for Vigilant Memory (FVM) travaille à éduquer les gens sur…

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February 2, 2021

Revisiting Rwanda

Established in October 2017 by Burundian refugees living in Rwanda, Site of Conscience Forum for Vigilant Memory (FVM) works to educate people about genocide, assist…

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June 9, 2023

Revitalization of La Maison des Esclaves

The rehabilitation of Maison des Esclaves represents a vital step in our universal efforts to break the historical silence that has long surrounded the transatlantic slave trade, and the political, social, cultural, and economic invisibility of its victims, including those who are still suffering from its brutal legacies today.

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January 22, 2025

RSVP Now: Dialogue in Difficult Times

A 6 Hour Virtual Workshop with Sites of Conscience Engaging the public in contentious conversations is not easy, but it is often necessary. The International…

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July 27, 2021

Shared Journeys: A Virtual Exhibition

Ensuring that all histories – especially the most marginalized – are preserved and shared is a priority for Sites of Conscience around the globe. To…

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November 6, 2020

Sites of Conscience and Democracy

Sites of Conscience across the globe know from experience that the slide from democracy to dictatorship can happen far more quickly than most people imagine….

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June 1, 2016

Spaces for Hope

The Coalition recently spoke with Justine di Mayo, Co-Founder and Director of Act for the Disappeared (ACT), a Lebanese Human Rights organization created in 2010 by…

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November 21, 2023

State of Truth in the World Report

On October 12, 2023, ICSC’s Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation launched its State of Truth in the World Report, an assessment of civil society’s access to truth through the lenses of memory, education and justice. The first report of its kind, written largely by local civil society actors with a diversity of lived experience and expertise, the publication offers holistic, survivor-centered analysis of the access to and protection of historical truths in 18 countries worldwide.

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February 25, 2022

Statement on Ukraine

On February 24, 2022, Ukrainian civilians awoke to the sounds of shelling and explosions following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order of an invasion of the…

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December 12, 2016

Students Promoting Racial Equity

The Coalition launched From Brown v. Board to Ferguson: Fostering Dialogue on Education, Incarceration, and Civil Rights in October 2015 to address one glaring contemporary legacy…

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May 3, 2022

Supporting Women’s Right to Choose

The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience is outraged by reports that the U.S. Supreme Court appears positioned to overturn Roe v. Wade, which protects…

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July 20, 2016

The Art of the Prototype

Located in Santa Fe, the Museum of International Folk Art is home to the world’s largest collection of folk art. With over 135,000 artifacts from…

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December 20, 2022

The Duty to Remember: Fighting for Truth and Justice in The Gambia

In honor of her father Saul Ndow, who was forcibly disappeared in The Gambia in 2013, Nana-Jo Ndow founded the African Network Against Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances (ANEKED), a youth-led civil society organization in 2018 to assist Gambians in healing old wounds and securing justice for victims and survivors. In this interview, she and Sirra Ndow, ANEKED’s Country Representative, speak with ICSC about the Site of Conscience’s mission and growth.

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April 28, 2021

The Search for Mass Graves in Georgia

Despite acknowledging Georgia’s independence a year prior, in 1921 Russian forces overtook the country, declaring it a Soviet Socialist Republic. In subsequent decades, repression of…

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March 16, 2024

Transforming Transitional Justice

In celebration of its tenth anniversary, GIJTR hosted “Transforming Transitional Justice: Innovative Approaches for Centering Communities to Lead Post-Conflict” in Barcelona, Spain from March 18-19, 2024. The gathering brought together over 90 representatives from more than 30 countries, including GIJTR Consortium partners, local partners, survivors, policy makers, donors and civil society representatives, to reflect on GIJTR’s impact within its first ten years.

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April 25, 2024

Transforming Transitional Justice: A Podcast

Released in April 2024, “Transforming Transitional Justice” is a podcast from ICSC’s flagship program the Global Initiative for Justice, Truth, and Reconciliation (GIJTR) that focuses on rethinking how traditional transitional justice processes after a conflict can better serve the needs of civilians affected by periods of violence and authoritarian regimes. 

Each episode focuses on common issues that post-conflict communities face, from bolstering communities abilities to search for their missing, to documenting violations, to helping victims heal from conflict-related sexual violence.

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June 19, 2024

Transitional Justice in America: A Podcast

To spark action on transitional justice in America, ICSC produced Transitional Justice in America, a six-episode podcast series that raises awareness of how these processes can help the United States correct course and foster healing.

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January 29, 2016

Transitional Justice Today

By: Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman, Senior Advisor with the Coalition’s Global Initiative for Justice, Truth, and Reconciliation “Transitional justice needs to be about the people, not satisfying…

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July 22, 2020

Upcoming Webinars

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With over 300 members in more than 65 countries, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience offers unprecedented access to a range of sites and…

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September 14, 2017

Video Series: Transitional Justice in MENA

ON THE BRINK: ACCOUNTABILITY AND JUSTICE IN YEMEN In the past decade, countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have experienced tremendous political upheaval…

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March 3, 2016

War and Motherhood in Sri Lanka

“Yes, I am going to tell you about a few things which may provoke your thinking.” From 1983 to 2009, Sri Lanka was devastated by a civil war that…

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April 20, 2016

Welcoming Alexei Khamarkhanov

The Coalition is delighted to welcome the newest member of our staff, Alexei Khamarkhanov, who joined the team in March 2016. As Finance and Operations…

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July 9, 2024

When Celebrating Holidays Feels like Celebrating Erasure: A Reflection

In celebrating Independence Day with hot dogs, tri-color bunting and spectacles in the night sky, we become players in a national mythology of exceptionalism. The hard edges of our past are buffed to the point of being unrecognizable. This is not unique to the United States, of course, it is a global phenomenon of revisionist stories, markers and memorials, presidential decrees and official holidays designed to turn the page on histories of horror that have never been acknowledged, much less redressed. We must ask the question — at what cost do we celebrate erasure?

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September 27, 2016

When Rewriting the Past Is a Good Thing

By Louis Nelson Professor of Architectural History and the Associate Dean in the School of Architecture, University of Virginia   Historians have many responsibilities. One of…

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May 20, 2019

Women of Conscience

Women’s leadership and peaceful societies are inextricably linked: One cannot exist without the other. While this fact is well documented, women around the world continue…

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