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Screenings in Seattle
Fridays 3:30 – 6:00 pm
Mary Gates Hall 420
University of Washington
Please join us on Friday afternoons! We’ll be screening the video interviews in preparation for releasing the collection to the public. All are welcome. More information
Fridays 3:30 – 6:00 pm
Mary Gates Hall 420
University of Washington
Please join us on Friday afternoons! We’ll be screening the video interviews in preparation for releasing the collection to the public. All are welcome. More information
Rwandan Youth Make Films on Transitional Justice
In collaboration with Never Again Rwanda and using the Tribunal Voices video clips, we ran a workshop for Rwandan high school students on peace and justice through film.
In collaboration with Never Again Rwanda and using the Tribunal Voices video clips, we ran a workshop for Rwandan high school students on peace and justice through film.
Publications
- Friedman, B., Nathan, L.P., Grey, N.C., Lake, M., Nilsen, T., Utter, E., Utter, R.F., Ring, M., and Kahn. Z. (2010). Multi-lifespan information system design in the aftermath of genocide: An early-stage report from Rwanda. (University of Washington Information School Technical Report IS-TR-2010-01-09.)
- Friedman, B. and Nathan, L. P. (2010). Multi-lifespan information system design: A research initiative for the HCI community. Proc. of CHI 2010. ACM Press (2010).
Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal
In 1994 the United Nations Security Council established the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The Security Council’s mandate instructed the court to prosecute those accused of responsibility for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of international law in the African Great Lakes region between 1 January and 31 December 1994.
The Collection
In September of 2008, our team of information scientists, legal experts, and cinematographers set out to record the voices of those who were part of the legal process. We conducted 49 video interviews with the judges, prosecutors, defense counsel, interpreters, court administrators, prison warden, and many others associated with the ICTR on location in Arusha, Tanzania and in Rwanda.
These individuals hold unique insight into the difficulties of attempting to achieve justice and reconciliation in response to the horrors of genocide. Reflections touch on many issues including transitional justice, violence against women, court administration, and interactions with witnesses. In providing these reflections, individuals were asked not to share confidential information.
Open Access
As the videos become available, we encourage anyone to make the clips their own by appropriating them into new works. We envision school teachers, documentary filmmakers, legal scholars, human rights activists, artists, playwrites, historians and many others may use the videos in projects such as:
Open Access
As the videos become available, we encourage anyone to make the clips their own by appropriating them into new works. We envision school teachers, documentary filmmakers, legal scholars, human rights activists, artists, playwrites, historians and many others may use the videos in projects such as:
• Pan-African Justice Capacity Building
• Reconciliation Projects Within Rwanda
• Textbooks Discussing Genocide
• Documentaries on Rwanda
• Plays and performances
• Reconciliation Projects Within Rwanda
• Textbooks Discussing Genocide
• Documentaries on Rwanda
• Plays and performances
• Handbook for Future Tribunals
• Songs and Lyrics
• Legal Curricula
• School Projects
• Blogs
• Songs and Lyrics
• Legal Curricula
• School Projects
• Blogs
The first release of videos from the project are available to view and download from the video page. The initial release includes roughly 15 short video clips, each typically 1 - 3 minutes long. All of the clips are subtitled in Kinyarwanda.
The 49 interviews, comprising 70-80 hours of high-definition video footage, are the first step in creating a multi-lifespan digital collection that will be open and accessible to the world. The videos will be offered in a variety of formats over the coming months and years as we acquire the resources to translate, subtitle, and tag them to support access.
The Archive
The original copy of the digital interviews are housed in the Special Collections of the University of Washington Libraries. To learn more about how we have secured the collection, please visit our security page.
How You Can Help
If you would like to see how you can help us with this ongoing process, please visit our support page.
Thank you for visiting.
This project is an undertaking of the Value Sensitive Design Research Lab at the University of Washington’s Information School
