International Organizations

Abstract

This chapter uses a select number of case studies to ask what role international organizations have played in memory activism and how effective have activists or international organizations been at changing commemoration of a contested past or generating public debate and policy change. It considers three different categories of violence: cases of colonial violence, Cold War violence, and wartime sexual violence and evaluates why they either failed or succeeded in attracting memory activism from international organizations. In each case it evaluates the presence and absence of a range of international organizations such as Amnesty International and the United Nations. It argues that due to t..