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Faculty of Humanities

Yugoslavia tribunal established the facts – but a unified ‘truth’ remained elusive

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was created to prosecute those responsible for some of the worst crimes committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. But there was also an ...
When data becomes a requirement for democracy

Open government was supposed to bring citizens closer to politics. By making government information publicly available, people would be better informed about the decisions that affect their lives, while at the same ...
Erik Saaman, UvA Honorary Fellow Archiving by Design

How can we ensure that digital government information becomes and remains accessible to everyone who has an interest in it? Erik Saaman, strategic advisor on digital archiving at the National Archives, will ...
Nearly century-old voices sound again in Indonesia

Nearly a century after they were first recorded, songs, poems and dances from East Flores returned this month to the communities where they were once documented. The restitution project, led by UvA musicologist ...