Survivor-Centered Visual Narratives

The Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives project proposes a new, arts-based way of gathering and commemorating the experiences of genocide and mass atrocity survivors, one that places survivors’ well-being, agency, and cooperation at its centre. Its purpose is not to develop a blueprint for testimony collection but instead to restore agency to survivor narratives.

Dutch subproject Iraq/Syria

Survivor-Centered Visual Narratives is a world-wide collaboration, consisting of multiple research clusters. The Dutch subproject, coordinated by NIOD, will centre around Iraq and Syria. Both countries have experienced decades of violence through authoritarian rule, war, economic crisis, and corruption. Because atrocities in these areas are ongoing, survivors working with this research cluster have unique experience in diasporic environments and the narration of events that many continue to endure.

For more information:

www.visualnarratives.org