Louis Bickford, a political scientist, has worked at the International Center for Transitional Justice (www.ictj.org), an international non-governmental organization with offices throughout the world, since the organization was founded in 2001. He has consulted with governments, NGOs, human rights activists, and democratic movements on strategies for confronting the legacies of past abuse in more than a dozen countries. At ICTJ, Dr. Bickford manages the Memory, Memorials, and Museums program, which develops programs on memory and justice in Bosnia, Cambodia, Colombia, Liberia, and Morocco, among other countries. He is also adjunct professor at the Wagner School of New York University and in the Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) at the New School for Social Research.

Blog Entries by Louis Bickford

Memory, War, and the Memory of War

Posted May 21, 2009 | 10:09 PM (EST)


Memorial Day is meant to remind us of the hardship of war, and on this Memorial Day I find myself asking how we will remember the "war on terror." What will our children's children know about this period?

We choose in the present how future generations will remember the...

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