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Technology and Transitional Justice: Making Visible the Information Infrastructure for War Victims

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Sponsors: Center for Global Studies. Co-sponsors: WGGP and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Location
Levis Faculty Center Room 210
Date
Nov 4, 2019   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Maria Belen Albornoz, Department of Public Affairs, Research Professor at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales Sede Ecuador (FLACSO)
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Originating Calendar
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)

In processes of transitional justice, technological information systems have become fundamental tools for organizing data and exchanging information between government agencies involved in the care of war victims. Programs such as the Interinstitutional Justice and Peace Information System (SIIJYP) in Colombia are intended to design services for the affected population and create aseptic sources to produce a memory of the acts committed. However, these information systems can have unintended consequences. Through an analysis of actor-networks, this talk addresses how the victimizers became the main beneficiaries of the application of the SIIJYP and how the definition of victim in the data constrained the system purposes. The tools presented establish ways to study these impacts from the human and non-human perspectives and consider how the efficiency of these systems is based on the invisibility of the information infrastructure.

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