Dagmar Hovestadt

communication and strategy
Website of the project on the crimes of ISIS in prisons in Iraq and Syria.
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As communication expert, researcher, and writer Dagmar Hovestadt works at the intersection of transitional justice, archives and human rights and in support of non-profit journalism and fact-finding. From 2011 to 2021 she was the spokesperson for the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records in Germany. She is currently working with the Syrian Prisons Museum.

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Crimes as 3D tours. How a group of Syrian journalists and filmmakers demand accountability

Dagmar Hovestadt, Amer Matar

Prisons as a tool of repression have a long and terrible history in Syria. Can digital technology create a discourse of accountability and closure? A group of Syrian journalists and filmmakers believe it can by exposing the crimes in a virtual museum, for ISIS prisons and for regime prisons.
Activism
Democracy
Law
Civil Society
Education & Learning
Lightning Box 1
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English
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